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All the Light We Cannot See (miniseries)

All the Light We Cannot See is a 2023 Netflix World War II drama limited series directed by Shawn Levy, adapted from Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

All the Pretty Horses (novel)

All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy's 1992 novel and first Border Trilogy volume, follows sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole from Texas into Mexico; it won the 1992 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

All You Need Is Kill

All You Need Is Kill is a 2004 Japanese science fiction light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka about a soldier trapped in a time loop during an alien war.

All-New, All-Different Marvel

All-New, All-Different Marvel: Marvel Comics' 2015 post-Secret Wars relaunch of about 60 titles under Axel Alonso, known for legacy heroes like Miles Morales, Jane Foster Thor, and Sam Wilson Cap, ending with 2017's Legacy rebrand.

All-Star Superman

All-Star Superman is a 12-issue DC Comics limited series (2005–2008) by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, telling of a dying Superman completing twelve challenges, adapted as a 2011 animated film and a key influence on James Gunn's 2025 Superman movie.

Allah Is Not Obliged

Allah Is Not Obliged (Allah n'est pas obligé) is a 2000 novel by Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma about Birahima, a child soldier in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean wars.

Allama Prabhu's Vachanas

Allama Prabhu's Vachanas (ಅಲ್ಲಮ ಪ್ರಭು) are free-verse Kannada mystical poems by Allama Prabhu, a twelfth-century Shaiva saint-poet of the sharana movement in Karnataka, signed with the epithet Guheshwara.

Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain, also spelled Quartermain, is H. Rider Haggard's English big-game hunter narrator of King Solomon's Mines (1885) and a 14-book series ending with Allan and the Ice-gods (1927); he dies in the 1887 sequel and inspired Indiana Jones.

Allegiant (novel)

Allegiant (2013) by Veronica Roth, the final Divergent trilogy book, follows Tris and Tobias beyond Chicago's wall to the Bureau of Genetic Welfare and ends with Tris's sacrificial death; dual POV, record HarperCollins first-day sales, 2016 film split.

Allie Esiri

Allie Esiri, British poetry anthologist and former actress (Allie Byrne), creator of the A Poem for Every Day/Night of the Year series, the iF Poems and Love Book apps, and National Theatre poetry shows.

Alma América

Alma América is a 1906 poetry collection by the Peruvian poet José Santos Chocano, published in Madrid and considered the central book of his career and a landmark of Peruvian modernismo.

Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! (アルマちゃんは家族になりたい)

Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! (アルマちゃんは家族になりたい), Japanese comedy-romance-scifi web manga by Nanateru on Comic Newtype (2021-2024, 3 volumes), about combat android Alma calling her creators Mom and Dad; Studio Flad TV anime aired October-December 2025; Yen Press licensed it in English.

Almanac of the Dead

Almanac of the Dead is a 1991 novel by Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, published by Simon & Schuster, depicting colonialism, dispossession, and a prophesied pan-tribal revolution.

Almost Transparent Blue

Almost Transparent Blue (Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burū) is a 1976 debut novel by Ryu Murakami about youth, drugs, and sex near a US base in Tokyo.

Aloysius Pendergast

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast, also A.X.L. Pendergast, is the fictional eccentric FBI Special Agent created by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, debuting in Relic (1995) and starring in over twenty thrillers.

Alpamysh

Alpamysh (Uzbek: Alpomish) is a Turkic heroic dastan, an ornate oral epic whose versions belong to Uzbek, Karakalpak, and Kazakh traditions and holds a place in Uzbek culture like a national epic.

Alpha (The Walking Dead)

Alpha is the leader of the Whisperers in The Walking Dead comics and AMC series, mother of Lydia, real name Dee on television, played by Samantha Morton, killed by Negan in the comics.

Alpha Flight

Alpha Flight is Marvel Comics' Canadian superhero team created by John Byrne, debuting in X-Men #120-121 (1979) and starring in a 130-issue series (1983-1994); notable for Northstar, the first openly gay superhero.

Altan Tobchi

Altan Tobchi (Алтан товч), meaning "Golden Summary," is a 17th-century Mongolian chronicle compiled by Lubsandanzan around 1651, preserving most of the Secret History of the Mongols.

Altazor

Altazor, full title Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas, is a long poem in seven cantos by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, published in Madrid in 1931.

Altazor Award

The Altazor Award, formally Premio Altazor de las Artes Nacionales, was an annual Chilean prize honoring national artistic work across literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, and audiovisual media.

Aluda Ketelauri

Aluda Ketelauri (ალუდა ქეთელაური) is an 1888 epic poem by Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela about a Khevsur warrior who refuses the custom of cutting off his slain enemy's hand.

Always a Catch!

Always a Catch! (逃がした魚は大きかったが釣りあげた魚が大きすぎた件, Nigetsuri) is a Japanese romantic fantasy light novel series by Mayo Momoyo, published by Square Enix from 2021, with a Kaki Nagato manga and a 12-episode TROYCA anime in spring 2026 about Maria Annovazzi, a duke's daughter whose prince breaks off an engagement that never existed.

Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Always and Forever, Lara Jean is Jenny Han's 2017 YA romance, the third and final To All the Boys I've Loved Before novel, following Lara Jean Covey through senior year, college decisions, and her father's wedding; adapted as a 2021 Netflix film.

Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm

Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm is Charlie Mackesy's 2025 illustrated sequel to The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, following the four friends through a literal and emotional storm; published by Penguin Life, October 14, 2025, 128 pages, #1 NYT bestseller.

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (時々ボソッとロシア語でデレる隣のアーリャさん, Roshidere) is a Japanese romcom light novel by Sunsunsun and Momoco, adapted into a Doga Kobo anime (July 2024) and a Magazine Pocket manga; season 2 delayed to 2027.

Amadis of Gaul

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula) is an Iberian chivalric romance printed in its surviving form in 1508, the model for Spanish books of chivalry.

Amagami (アマガミ)

Amagami (アマガミ) is a 2009 PlayStation 2 romance simulation game by Enterbrain, successor to True Love Story and KimiKiss, with six heroines, an action-map schedule system, conversation topic mode, and later Ebikore+ ports on PSP and PS Vita.

Amagi Brilliant Park (甘城ブリリアントパーク)

Amagi Brilliant Park (甘城ブリリアントパーク) is a light novel series by Shoji Gatoh and Yuka Nakajima (Fujimi Fantasia Bunko, 2013) about rebuilding a failing magical amusement park, adapted into a 2014 Kyoto Animation TV anime.

Amal'ezulu

Amal'ezulu (Zulu Horizons) is a 1945 collection of isiZulu poems by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, expressing longing for his rural home and the suffering of black gold miners.