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Alex Cross (character)
Alex Cross is a fictional detective and psychologist created by James Patterson, protagonist of a thriller series begun with Along Came a Spider in 1993.
Alex Cross (novel series)
Alex Cross novel series: James Patterson's mystery-thriller books starring DC detective-psychologist Alex Cross, begun with Along Came a Spider (1993), 30+ novels, adapted as films with Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry and the Prime Video series Cross with Aldis Hodge.
Alex Haley's Queen
Alex Haley's Queen: 1993 six-hour CBS miniseries and posthumous novel about Haley's paternal grandmother Queen Haley, daughter of a slave and a plantation owner's son, starring Halle Berry.
Alex Rider
Alex Rider: young adult spy novel series by Anthony Horowitz, begun with Stormbreaker (2000), about a 14-year-old MI6 recruit; fourteen books, over 21 million copies sold, adapted into a 2006 film and a three-season Amazon series.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is Judith Viorst's 1972 picture book, illustrated by Ray Cruz, about a boy's disastrous day and wish to move to Australia; it sold about four million copies and spawned HBO, stage, and 2014 Disney film adaptations.
Alexander Romance
The Alexander Romance, falsely attributed to Callisthenes as Pseudo-Callisthenes, is a Greek fictionalized life of Alexander the Great and among the most translated works of antiquity.
Alexander Tvardovsky
Alexander Tvardovsky (1910–1971) was a Soviet poet and journalist best known for the folk-epic war poem Vasily Tyorkin and for editing the journal Novy Mir.
Alexandreis
The Alexandreis is a Latin epic poem in ten books by Walter of Châtillon, written in the 1170s, telling the life and deeds of Alexander the Great.
Alfabet
Alfabet is a 1981 long poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, whose fourteen sections from A to N grow along the Fibonacci sequence while cataloging nature and nuclear threat.
Algic Researches
Algic Researches is an 1839 two-volume collection of Native American tales and legends published by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, whose Ojibwe stories supplied material for Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha.
Algo sobre la muerte del mayor Sabines
Algo sobre la muerte del mayor Sabines is a long elegiac poem by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines about the illness, death, and funeral of his father, a military officer of the Mexican Revolution.
Alguma Poesia
Alguma Poesia is the first book of poems by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published in 1930 and containing "No meio do caminho" and "Poema de sete faces".
Ali and Nino
Ali and Nino: 1937 German-language novel by "Kurban Said" (attributed to Lev Nussimbaum, disputed), a Muslim-Christian love story in Baku during WWI; Azerbaijan's national novel, filmed 2016.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (علي بابا والأربعون لصا) is a tale of the Arabian Nights about a woodcutter whose treasure cave opens at "Open sesame!" Added to the collection by Antoine Galland from tales told by Hanna Diyab in 1709, not in any original Arabic manuscript.
Ali Pur Ka Aeeli
Ali Pur Ka Aeeli (علی پور کا ایلی) is an autobiographical Urdu novel by Mumtaz Mufti, published in 1961, following the character Ilyas, known as Aili.
Alia Atreides
Alia Atreides is a Dune novel character, Paul Atreides' pre-born sister, born 10191 AG with ancestral memory after Jessica's Water of Life. She killed Baron Harkonnen as a child, ruled as regent, and died possessed in Children of Dune.
Alias (comics)
Alias (2001–2004) is Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos's 28-issue Marvel MAX comic, the imprint's first title, introducing private investigator Jessica Jones and later inspiring Netflix's Marvel's Jessica Jones.
Alias Grace
Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood's 1996 historical novel, her ninth, retelling the 1843 Grace Marks murder case in Canada West; Giller Prize winner, Booker shortlistee, adapted by Sarah Polley into a 2017 Netflix miniseries.
Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Alice is the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Lewis Carroll's literary-nonsense novel by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, follows Alice down a rabbit hole; first told 4 July 1862, manuscript gifted 1864, first printing withdrawn, sequel 1871.
Alison DiLaurentis
Alison DiLaurentis, also Ali Lauren DiLaurentis, is the queen bee whose disappearance drives Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard's 2006 book series and the Freeform TV show, where Sasha Pieterse plays her; she fakes her death, is tried for murder, and later bears twins.
Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean, full name Alistair Stuart MacLean (1922–1987), was a Scottish thriller novelist who wrote thirty books, including The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, selling over 150 million copies.
All Fours (novel)
All Fours is Miranda July's second novel (Riverhead, May 14, 2024) about a 45-year-old artist who abandons an LA-to-NY drive, checks into a motel, and reinvents her intimate life; a National Book Award finalist and Women's Prize shortlistee.
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is Larry McMurtry's 1972 Simon & Schuster novel, second of his Houston books, following young writer Danny Deck from Texas to San Francisco after sudden literary success.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) is Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 anti-war novel about Paul Bäumer in World War I; it sold 1.2 million German copies, was banned by the Nazis, and inspired the 1930 and 2022 films.
All That's Left to You
All That's Left to You (Arabic: Ma Tabaqqā lakum) is a 1966 novella by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, following a brother and sister in Gaza after 1948.
All the Beauties of the World
All the Beauties of the World (Czech: Všecky krásy světa) is a book of short, lyrical memoir vignettes by Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature.
All the Bright Places
All the Bright Places is Jennifer Niven's 2015 Knopf YA novel about Theodore Finch and Violet Markey, teens who meet on a bell tower ledge; it won the Goodreads Choice Award and became a 2020 Netflix film.
All the King's Men
All the King's Men is Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Harcourt novel, winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, about Southern governor Willie Stark, modeled on Huey Long, narrated by Jack Burden, adapted into the Oscar-winning 1949 film.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See is Anthony Doerr's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII novel about blind French girl Marie-Laure LeBlanc and German orphan Werner Pfennig, whose paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo, later adapted into a 2023 Netflix limited series.