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Miscellaneous Poems of 1839
Miscellaneous Poems of 1839 (Jihai zashi) is a set of 315 quatrains by the Qing poet Gong Zizhen, written during his 1839 journey home from Beijing.
Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital
Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital (Xijing zaji 西京雜記) is a Chinese collection of 129 anecdotes about the Western Han capital Chang'an, with disputed authorship.
Misery (novel)
Misery, Stephen King's 1987 Viking Press psychological thriller, imprisons novelist Paul Sheldon with "number one fan" Annie Wilkes; originally a Richard Bachman title, an addiction metaphor, and winner of the 1988 Bram Stoker Award.
Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham, character in Dickens's Great Expectations (1861): jilted bride of Satis House in a rotting wedding dress, clocks stopped at twenty to nine, who raises Estella as her weapon of revenge on men.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (小林さんちのメイドラゴン) is a comedy manga by Coolkyousinnjya, serialized by Futabasha since 2013 and adapted by Kyoto Animation into 2017 and 2021 anime seasons plus a 2025 film, with spin-offs on Kanna, Elma, Fafnir, Lucoa, and Ilulu.
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts is Nathanael West's 1933 short novel about a male advice columnist crushed by readers' letters and his cynical editor Shrike; a Depression-era black comedy ending in Doyle's shooting of the columnist.
Miss Marple
Miss Marple, Jane Marple, is Agatha Christie's elderly spinster amateur detective of St Mary Mead, appearing in twelve novels and twenty short stories from 1927 to 1976, most famously portrayed on screen by Joan Hickson in the BBC's 1984–1992 series.
Miss Moneypenny
Miss Moneypenny is M's fictional private secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and films, first appearing in Casino Royale (1953) and Dr. No (1962).
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is Ransom Riggs's 2011 Quirk Books debut YA dark-fantasy novel, built around found vintage photographs, about Jacob Portman and a Welsh time loop; it spawned a 10-million-copy series and Tim Burton's 2016 film.
Miss Sophie's Diary
Miss Sophie's Diary (莎菲女士的日记, Shafei nüshi de riji) is a short story in diary form by the Chinese writer Ding Ling, published in 1928 and famous for its frank treatment of female sexuality.
Miss Trunchbull
Miss Agatha Trunchbull is the villainous headmistress of Crunchem Hall in Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda, a former Olympic hammer thrower who terrorizes children, abuses her niece Miss Honey, and appears in the 1996 film (Pam Ferris), stage musical (Bertie Carvel), and 2022 Netflix film (Emma Thompson).
Missal
Missal is a book of prose poems by the Brazilian poet João da Cruz e Sousa, published in 1893 and regarded as the inaugural work of Symbolism in Brazil.
Missing Soluch
Missing Soluch (Jā-ye ḵāli-e Soluč) is a novel by the Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, first published in 1979 and set in the village of Zaminej in northeastern Iran.
Missing You (Coben novel)
Missing You is Harlan Coben's 2014 Dutton thriller about NYPD Detective Kat Donovan finding ex-fiancé Jeff on a dating site; a #1 NYT bestseller, adapted as Netflix's five-part 2025 series set in Manchester with Rosalind Eleazar.
Mission to Kala
Mission to Kala is the English title of Mission terminée, a 1957 novel by Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti about a student sent to a rural village.
Mist (novel)
Mist (novel) covers several unrelated works: Unamuno's Spanish nivola Niebla (1914), a Malayalam novel by M.T. Vasudevan Nair, the Chinese danmei web novel Bowu by Wei Feng Ji Xu, and Stephen King's 1980 novella The Mist.
Mistborn
Mistborn is Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series begun with The Final Empire (2006), set in the Cosmere, featuring the metallic arts Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy, seven published novels across two eras, over 17 million copies sold, and an Apple TV film adaptation in development.
Mistborn: Shadows of Self
Shadows of Self (Mistborn: Shadows of Self), Brandon Sanderson's 2015 Tor fantasy novel, book two of the Wax and Wayne series: Wax investigates the kandra Bleeder amid terrorism in industrial Elendel, three hundred years after the original Mistborn trilogy.
Mistborn: The Alloy of Law
Mistborn: The Alloy of Law (2011) is Brandon Sanderson's Tor-published fantasy novel opening Mistborn Era Two, set 300 years after the original trilogy, following Twinborn lawman Waxillium Ladrian in Elendel against the Vanishers.
Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning
Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning is Brandon Sanderson's 2016 Tor fantasy novel, the third Wax and Wayne Mistborn book, following Waxillium Ladrian's hunt for the Lord Ruler's legendary metalminds in industrial-era Scadrial.
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) is Brandon Sanderson's fantasy novel opening the Mistborn trilogy, set on Scadrial where Vin and Kelsier use Allomancy, metal-burning magic, against the immortal Lord Ruler; later retitled Mistborn in US editions and slated for an Apple TV film.
Mister Magic (novel)
Mister Magic (2023 novel) by Kiersten White, Del Rey: horror-thriller in which five former child stars of an untraceable children's TV show, the Circle of Friends, reunite; explores religious trauma, nostalgia, and lost media.
Mister Pip
Mister Pip is a 2006 novel by New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones, set on Bougainville during its civil war and shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize.
Mistress Kanan Is Devilishly Easy
Mistress Kanan Is Devilishly Easy (カナン様はあくまでチョロい, Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi) is a comedy-romance shōnen manga by nonco, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since 2022, about a soul-eating demon chairwoman; adapted as a 2026 Studio KAI anime.
Mitch Rapp
Mitch Rapp is a fictional CIA counterterrorism operative created by Vince Flynn in Transfer of Power (1999); the thriller series now spans 24 novels by Flynn, Kyle Mills, and Don Bentley, with a 2017 film adaptation.
Mithril
Mithril (also mythril, true-silver, Moria-silver): Tolkien's fictional silvery metal of Middle-earth, coined in Sindarin, mined in Moria, worth ten times gold; later a standard fantasy RPG metal.
Mizrahi poetry
Mizrahi poetry (Hebrew: שירה מזרחית) is Hebrew poetry by Jewish Israelis of Middle Eastern and North African origin that took shape in the 1970s, led by Erez Biton and Roni Somek.
Mizukagami
Mizukagami (水鏡, "Water Mirror") is a Japanese historical tale recounting the reigns of the emperors from Jimmu to Ninmyō, written in the late 12th century.
Mo Dao Zu Shi (魔道祖师)
Mo Dao Zu Shi is a 2018 Chinese animated series adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's web novel, streamed on Tencent Video in 35 episodes across three seasons.
Mo Shang Sang
Mo Shang Sang (陌上桑) is an anonymous Chinese yuefu ballad of the Han dynasty, in which the mulberry-picker Luofu rebuffs an official by praising her husband.