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List of The Neverending Story characters

Characters of Michael Ende's 1979 novel Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) and its adaptations: Bastian Balthasar Bux, Atreyu, the Childlike Empress, Falkor/Fuchur, Gmork, Coreander, and the 1984 film cast.

List of The New York Times number-one books of 2025

The New York Times number-one books of 2025: titles topping the paper's weekly fiction, nonfiction, and children's bestseller lists. Onyx Storm led fiction with 8 weeks at #1; 188 of 1,201 charting books reached the top spot.

List of The New York Times number-one books of 2026

List of The New York Times number-one books of 2026: weekly number-one bestsellers, led in adult hardcover fiction by The Correspondent (Virginia Evans) through Dead Beat (Leigh Bardugo), with Regime Change topping nonfiction for three weeks.

List of The Stand characters

Characters of Stephen King's The Stand: Stu Redman, Frannie Goldsmith, Larry Underwood, Nick Andros, Harold Lauder, Nadine Cross, Mother Abagail, and Randall Flagg, split between the Boulder Free Zone and Flagg's Las Vegas, with 1994 and 2020 TV portrayals.

List of The Umbrella Academy characters

Characters of The Umbrella Academy (Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's Dark Horse comic and the Netflix series): the seven Hargreeves siblings, Reginald, Pogo, Grace, Hazel and Cha-Cha, Lila, and the Sparrow Academy, with powers and adaptation differences.

List of The Walking Dead (comics) characters

Characters of The Walking Dead comics (Image, 2003-2019, 193 issues) by Robert Kirkman: Rick Grimes, Carl, Andrea, Carol, Sophia, Negan, Glenn, Maggie, Michonne; Daryl Dixon is TV-only, Commonwealth has about 50,000 members.

List of Thunderbolts members

List of Thunderbolts members: rosters of the Marvel Comics team from the 1997 Masters of Evil debut (Zemo, Songbird, Moonstone, Atlas) through Osborn, Luke Cage, Red Hulk, and Bucky Barnes eras, plus the MCU Thunderbolts film lineup.

List of To Kill a Mockingbird characters

Characters of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960): Scout, Atticus, and Jem Finch, Boo Radley, Calpurnia, Dill, Tom Robinson, the Ewells, and Maycomb townspeople, plus how the cast changed in film and stage adaptations.

List of Tom Sawyer characters

Characters of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876): Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, Injun Joe, Sid, and Mary, with roles, relationships, and adaptation history.

List of Twilight characters

Twilight characters: Bella Swan, the vampire Edward Cullen (age 104, presents 17), werewolf Jacob Black, the Cullen coven led by Carlisle, villains James, Victoria, and the Volturi, and half-vampire Renesmee.

List of Vampire Knight characters

Characters of Vampire Knight (ヴァンパイア騎士), Matsuri Hino's shojo manga: heroine Yuki Cross/Kuran, hunter Zero Kiryu, pureblood Kaname Kuran, Night Class vampires, supporting cast, and Memories sequel characters.

List of Very Short Introductions books

Very Short Introductions (VSI) is Oxford University Press's series of short expert books launched in 1995 with Classics by Mary Beard and John Henderson; over 750 titles, 10 million copies, five discipline modules.

List of War and Peace characters

Characters of War and Peace (Война и мир), Tolstoy's 1868–69 novel: 599 figures, about 200 historical, centered on Pierre Bezukhov, Andrei Bolkonsky, and Natasha Rostova, organized by noble families with Behrs-family prototypes.

List of Warhammer 40,000 novels

The list of Warhammer 40,000 novels covers the science fiction books set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe, published chiefly by the Black Library imprint since 1997.

List of Warhammer Fantasy novels

List of Warhammer Fantasy novels: fantasy fiction set in Games Workshop's Old World since 1989, published by GW Books, then Boxtree, then Black Library, and reprinted in the Warhammer Chronicles omnibus line.

List of Weapon X members

Weapon X members span the Marvel Comics Weapon X Program (Team X: Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, Wraith, Mastodon, Silver Fox; later Colcord-era recruits like Deadpool and Marrow) and the 2017 Weapon X-Force mercenary team (Wolverine, Domino, Sabretooth, Omega Red, Deadpool, Monet).

List of winners of the National Book Award

National Book Award winners list: five annual U.S. literary prizes (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, Young People's Literature) run by the National Book Foundation since 1989; 2025 winners include Rabih Alameddine and Omar El Akkad.

List of Winnie-the-Pooh books

List of Winnie-the-Pooh books: A. A. Milne's four original titles, When We Were Very Young (1924), Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Now We Are Six (1927), and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), illustrated by E. H. Shepard, with publication details and public-domain timelines.

List of Winnie-the-Pooh characters

Winnie-the-Pooh characters, also called the Hundred Acre Wood cast: Milne's 1926 and 1928 books give eight animals plus Christopher Robin; six are based on his real toys, Rabbit and Owl invented, with Disney and public-domain versions distinct.

List of Witch Hat Atelier chapters

Chapter list and release schedule for Witch Hat Atelier (Tongari Bōshi no Atelier), Kamome Shirahama's monthly Kodansha Morning Two manga: 98 chapters in 16 volumes, fourth-Thursday Japanese releases, English on K MANGA a week later.

List of Women's Prize for Fiction winners

List of Women's Prize for Fiction winners: annual UK award (founded 1996 as the Orange Prize) for the best novel in English by a woman, £30,000 plus the Bessie statuette. Lists all 31 winners from Helen Dunmore's A Spell of Winter (1996) to Virginia Evans's The Correspondent (2026).

List of works based on Arthurian legends

Works based on Arthurian legends: adaptations of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Round Table across literature, film, television, musicals, animation, and games, from Geoffrey of Monmouth (1136) and Malory (1485) through Tennyson and modern retellings.

List of works based on The War of the Worlds

List of works based on The War of the Worlds: adaptations of H.G. Wells's 1898 Martian-invasion novel, including Orson Welles's 1938 radio drama, George Pal's 1953 film, Jeff Wayne's 1978 musical, the 1988 TV series, Spielberg's 2005 film, 2019 BBC and Fox series, and the 2025 Ice Cube film.

List of works by Akira Toriyama

List of works by Akira Toriyama (鳥山明), Japanese manga artist and character designer: Wonder Island debut 1978, Dr. Slump 1980, Dragon Ball 1984-1995, Cowa!, Sand Land, Jaco, Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger designs, Dragon Ball Super and Daima.

List of works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

List of works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: four novels (Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, Dream Count), The Thing Around Your Neck, the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, Notes on Grief, plus early poetry, a play, and a children's book.

List of works by Gerald Durrell

List of works by Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), British naturalist and author of The Overloaded Ark and the Corfu trilogy; covers his memoirs, expedition books, children's novels, Lee Durrell collaborations, and posthumous Myself and Other Animals.

List of world folk-epics

List of world folk-epics: oral and oral-derived heroic narratives such as Manas, Gesar, Mongol Tuuli, Sun-Jata, Sîrat Banî Hilal, bylyny, Siri, and Biag ni Lam-ang, their singers, textualization, and UNESCO recognition.

List of writing genres

Writing genres classify texts by form, content, and style: poetry, prose fiction (romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery), nonfiction (essay, biography, journalism), drama, and hybrid forms, with classical epic-lyric-drama roots and modern rhetorical and computational classification.

List of X-Force members

X-Force members across Marvel Comics eras: Cable's original 1991 New Mutants-derived lineup, the Wisdom, X-Statix, 2007 strike team, Uncanny X-Force, Krakoa, and current rosters.

List of years in literature

List of years in literature, also called literary chronology or year in literature pages, indexes literary history year by year: works published, author births and deaths, premieres, and prizes, from Enheduanna c. 2300 BCE to modern chronologies such as the Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature.