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American Psycho (musical)
American Psycho is a two-act musical thriller with music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik and book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel. It premiered at London's Almeida Theatre in December 2013 under Rupert Goold, flopped on Broadway in 2016, and returned to the Almeida in a 2026 revival with Arty Froushan.
American romance
American romance is a tradition of American prose fiction, running from Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, in which writers called their long narratives romances rather than novels.
American Sniper (book)
American Sniper (2012) is Chris Kyle's Navy SEAL memoir, written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice, a #1 New York Times bestseller about his record sniper kills in Iraq, later adapted into Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated film.
American Splendor
American Splendor: Harvey Pekar's autobiographical comic series (1976-2008), first drawn by Robert Crumb, self-published then Dark Horse and Vertigo; American Book Award 1987; 2003 Oscar-nominated film.
Americanah
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's third novel (Knopf, May 2013), follows Ifemelu and Obinze from Nigeria to America and London and back; NBCC Award winner, licensed in 29 languages.
Amerika (novel)
Amerika (Der Verschollene) is Franz Kafka's first, unfinished novel about immigrant Karl Rossmann in New York; written 1912–14, published 1927 by Max Brod under the title Amerika, first translated 1938 by the Muirs.
Amers
Amers, translated as Seamarks, is a long poem in French by Saint-John Perse, published by Gallimard in Paris in 1957 and organized around the theme of the sea.
Amir Arsalan
Amir Arsalan (امیر ارسلان) is a Persian prose romance of the Qajar era, related by the Shah's chief storyteller and written down by Princess Tūrān Āḡā Fakr-al-dawla.
Amir Khusrau
Amir Khusrau (Amir Khusrow Dehlavi, 1253–1325), the 'Parrot of India,' was a Delhi Sultanate Persian and Hindavi poet, Sufi disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, author of the first Persian Khamsa, and figure credited with founding qawwali.
Amiran-Darejaniani
Amiran-Darejaniani (ამირანდარეჯანიანი), or The Story of Amiran, Son of Darejan, is a 12th-century Georgian prose romance attributed to Mose Khoneli and centered on the hero Amiran Darejanidze.
Amiraniani
Amiraniani (ამირანიანი) is the conventional name for the cycle of Georgian folk tales about the hero Amirani, dating to around the end of the 2nd millennium BC.
Amkoullel, the Fula Boy
Amkoullel, the Fula Boy (Amkoullel, l'enfant peul) is a memoir by the Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ, recounting his childhood and adolescence in early twentieth-century French West Africa.
Among School Children
"Among School Children" is a 1928 poem by W. B. Yeats from The Tower, about aging and love, ending "How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Amongst Women
Amongst Women is a 1990 novel by Irish writer John McGahern about Michael Moran, an aging War of Independence veteran ruling his family on a County Leitrim farm.
Amor de Perdição
Amor de Perdição is an 1862 novel by the Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco, considered his principal work, telling of doomed love between Simão Botelho and Teresa de Albuquerque.
Amores
The Amores is a collection of Latin love elegies in three books by the Roman poet Ovid, his first completed work, about a lover and his mistress Corinna.
Amrutanubhav
Amrutanubhav (अमृतानुभव), also called Anubhavamrut, is a 13th-century independent philosophical poem in Marathi by the saint-poet Dnyaneshwar, setting out his experience of nonduality through the unity of Shiva and Shakti.
Amulet (comics)
Amulet, also known as Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet, is a graphic novel series by Kazu Kibuishi, published by Scholastic, following siblings Emily and Navin Hayes in a fantastical underground world.
Amy Dunne
Amy Elliott Dunne is the fictional antagonist of Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel Gone Girl and its 2014 David Fincher film, played by Rosamund Pike; she fakes her disappearance to frame husband Nick, and her Cool Girl monologue shaped domestic noir fiction.
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow is a 47-line free-verse poem by Les Murray, first published in 1969, in which a man weeps openly in Sydney's Martin Place.
An Abundance of Katherines
An Abundance of Katherines is John Green's 2006 comic young adult novel about Colin Singleton, a washed-up child prodigy dumped by 19 girls named Katherine, whose road trip to Gutshot, Tennessee drives his Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability.
An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29
An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29 (29-sai Dokushin Chuuken Boukensha no Nichijou) is Ippei Nara's Kodansha fantasy slice-of-life manga, running since January 2016, about 29-year-old adventurer Hajime Shinonome raising the rescued girl Rirui; a 12-episode HORNETS anime aired January to March 2026 on Crunchyroll.
An African Tragedy
An African Tragedy is a 1928 short novel in English by the Zulu South African writer R. R. R. Dhlomo, the first novel in English by a black South African writer.
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy is Theodore Dreiser's 1925 two-volume naturalist novel about Clyde Griffiths, based on Chester Gillette's 1906 murder of Grace Brown, and adapted into the films An American Tragedy (1931) and A Place in the Sun (1951).
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English is a 1997 anthology edited by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, and Mark Williams, published by Oxford University Press in Auckland.
An Area of Darkness
An Area of Darkness is a 1964 travelogue by V. S. Naipaul, a semi-autobiographical account of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears.
An Arundel Tomb
"An Arundel Tomb" is a 1956 poem by Philip Larkin about the 14th-century hand-holding tomb of the Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster in Chichester Cathedral.
An die Parzen
An die Parzen ("To the Fates") is a twelve-line Alcaic ode by Friedrich Hölderlin, first printed in 1799, asking the Fates for one summer and autumn to finish a poem before death.
An Echo in the Bone
An Echo in the Bone is Diana Gabaldon's 2009 seventh Outlander novel, following Jamie and Claire Fraser in the American Revolution, Brianna and Roger at Lallybroch, Lord John Grey and William, and Young Ian, across four interwoven storylines.
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, also titled Of Dramatick Poesie, is a 1668 work of literary criticism by John Dryden, cast as a dialogue debating ancient and modern drama.