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List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters

The characters of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are the people and creatures of Roald Dahl's 1964 novel, featuring protagonist Charlie Bucket, chocolatier Willy Wonka, and the Oompa-Loompas.

List of children's classic books

Lists of children's classic books: curated selections of lasting children's literature. No official canon exists; ALSC Notable lists, Newbery/Caldecott awards, and publisher lists (Common Sense Media, Pan Macmillan) plus titles like Charlotte's Web, Ferdinand, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

List of common misconceptions about arts and culture

Common misconceptions about arts and culture: the Dark Ages myth, golden ratio and Parthenon optical-correction claims, the genuineness effect, ambiguous-image personality tests, and modern art, each corrected with cited research.

List of Dandadan chapters

List of Dandadan chapters: Yukinobu Tatsu's manga, serialized weekly in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ since April 6, 2021; 25 volumes by September 2026, chapter 249 latest, English edition by Viz Media.

List of Defenders members

List of Defenders members: roster of Marvel Comics' non-team, founded 1971 by Doctor Strange, Namor, and Hulk; covers original, New, Secret Defenders, Defenders for a Day, and later incarnations.

List of Delicious in Dungeon chapters

Delicious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯, Dungeon Meshi) chapter and volume guide: Ryoko Kui's 97-chapter manga serialized in Harta 2014–2023, collected in 14 tankōbon volumes, English edition by Yen Press.

List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters

Characters of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney's diary series: narrator Greg Heffley, best friend Rowley Jefferson, brother Rodrick, the Heffley family, and the Cheese Touch, across 21 books and film adaptations.

List of Dickensian characters

Dickensian characters: the roughly 1,650 to 13,000 figures, from Scrooge and Micawber to Drood's Lobley, across Dickens's novels, Christmas books, sketches, journalism, and plays, their prototypes, names, and adaptations.

List of Divergent characters

List of Divergent characters: fictional people in Veronica Roth's Divergent series, including Tris Prior (Divergent heroine), Tobias Four Eaton, Jeanine Matthews, Eric, Peter, the Prior family, and faction-aligned figures in dystopian Chicago.

List of Doctor Who novelisations

The Doctor Who novelisations are prose adaptations of television episodes published since 1964, with 156 Target Books titles selling over 13 million copies between 1973 and 1991.

List of Dragonlance novels

The Dragonlance novels are fantasy fiction set in the world of Krynn for Dungeons & Dragons, beginning with Weis and Hickman's Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984); the Chronicles, Legends, and War of Souls trilogies anchor a catalog of roughly 196 books published from 1984 to 2026.

List of Dune characters

List of Dune characters: the fictional figures of Frank Herbert's six Dune novels and later expansions, from Paul Atreides, Lady Jessica, and Baron Harkonnen to Duncan Idaho, Scytale, and the Dune: Prophecy Harkonnens.

List of dystopian literature

List of dystopian literature: fiction depicting oppressive imagined societies, from More's Utopia (1516) and Zamyatin's We (1924) through Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale, and young-adult dystopias like The Hunger Games.

List of Emily Dickinson poems

Emily Dickinson's poems: nearly 1,800 works left unpublished at her 1886 death, known by first lines and Johnson (J) and Franklin (Fr) numbers, with only eleven printed in her lifetime and a documented edition history from 1890 to 2016.

List of Energon Universe story arcs

List of Energon Universe story arcs covers named multi-issue storylines in Skybound and Image's shared Hasbro comics universe (Void Rivals, Transformers, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K.), launched June 2023 with Void Rivals #1, including "Robots in Disguise", "Dreadnok War", and "The Quintesson War".

List of English-language book publishing companies

List of English-language book publishing companies: a catalog of English-language book publishers and imprints, including academic, trade, religious, small press, and defunct houses, excluding vanity presses, printers, and book packagers.

List of Fantastic Four members

List of Fantastic Four members: Marvel Comics roster of Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and the Thing, plus former and substitute members such as Crystal, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, and Iceman.

List of fantasy worlds

List of fantasy worlds: an overview of notable invented fantasy settings, from Tolkien's Middle-earth (Arda), Narnia, Earthsea, and Westeros to Hyborian Age, Ivalice, Witch World, Pern, Xanth, and D&D's Forgotten Realms, with secondary-world theory and research trends.

List of Fate/Apocrypha characters

The list of Fate/Apocrypha characters covers the cast of the Fate story built around a two-sided Great Holy Grail War of fourteen Servants, judged by Jeanne d'Arc as Ruler.

List of feminist literature

The list of feminist literature is a chronological reference list of feminist works, from Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris in 1361 to the 2020s, spanning seven centuries and multiple genres.

List of fictional bears

Fictional bears are bear characters across children's literature, film, and television, including Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Paddington Bear (1958), Baloo, Yogi Bear, Smokey Bear, Brer Bear, Bungle, and the Berenstain Bears.

List of fictional islands

Fictional islands are imaginary island settings in literature and media, from Homer's Ogygia and Plato's Atlantis to Utopia, Laputa, Treasure Island, Neverland, and Genosha, studied for possession, separation, and transformation.

List of fictional rabbits and hares

Fictional rabbits and hares: folklore figures like the Easter Bunny and Br'er Rabbit, literary characters like Peter Rabbit, the White Rabbit, and Watership Down's Hazel, and cartoon stars like Bugs Bunny.

List of fictional swords

List of fictional swords: named blades in fiction and legend, from Excalibur, Gram, and Durendal to Andúril, Stormbringer, the Master Sword, and lightsabers, with their wielders and properties.

List of Frieren chapters

Chapter and volume guide to Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (葬送のフリーレン) by Kanehito Yamada and Abe Tsukasa: Weekly Shōnen Sunday serialization, VIZ English releases, volume ISBNs, story arcs, and circulation milestones.

List of Frieren characters

Character roster of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (葬送のフリーレン), the Kanehito Yamada/Tsukasa Abe manga: elf mage Frieren, party of Himmel, Heiter, Eisen, apprentice Fern and warrior Stark, plus exam mages and German-named demons.

List of Gachiakuta characters

Gachiakuta (ガチアクタ) characters: Cleaners teams Akuta, Eager, Child, supporters, Raiders, Spherite, and Others, with Rudo, Enjin, Zanka, Riyo, Jabber, their vital instruments and voice cast.

List of games based on Dune

The List of Dune games covers video, board, and tabletop adaptations of Frank Herbert's novel. Dune II (1992) established real-time strategy hallmarks, such as fog of war and resource management.

List of Goosebumps books

Goosebumps book list: R.L. Stine's Scholastic children's horror series, begun July 1992 with Welcome to Dead House; 62 original-series titles plus Give Yourself Goosebumps, Series 2000, HorrorLand, SlappyWorld, and House of Shivers spin-offs, with 400 million English copies in print.

List of Hardy Boys books

List of Hardy Boys books: juvenile detective series credited to pseudonymous Franklin W. Dixon, begun 1927 with The Tower Treasure; 58-volume Grosset & Dunlap canon, 1959-1973 revisions, and Simon & Schuster spin-offs like Casefiles.