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Nigorie
Nigorie (にごりえ), translated as Troubled Waters, is an 1895 short story by the Japanese writer Higuchi Ichiyō that follows Oriki, a courtesan at a low-class Tokyo establishment.
Nihon Eitaigura
Nihon Eitaigura (日本永代蔵), also read Nihon Eidaigura, is a 1688 work of illustrated popular fiction by Ihara Saikaku, thirty stories of merchants gaining or ruining fortunes in Osaka.
Nihon Ōjō Gokurakuki
Nihon Ōjō Gokurakuki (日本往生極楽記), also known as Honchō ōjō-den, is a late-tenth-century Japanese collection of forty-two biographies of people believed reborn in Amida's Pure Land.
Nihon Ryōiki
Nihon Ryōiki, formally Nihon koku genpō zen'aku ryōiki, is Japan's oldest collection of Buddhist setsuwa tales, compiled by the Yakushiji monk Kyōkai around 822 in three scrolls of 116 karmic tales.
Nijūichidaishū
Nijūichidaishū (二十一代集, "Twenty-One Imperial Collections") is the collective name for the 21 imperial waka anthologies compiled between 905 and 1439, containing about 33,700 poems and forming the central canon of classical Japanese court poetry.
Niketche: A Story of Polygamy
Niketche: A Story of Polygamy (Niketche: uma história de poligamia) is a 2002 novel by Paulina Chiziane in which Rami discovers her husband's four other wives.
Nikita's Childhood
Nikita's Childhood (Detstvo Nikity) is an autobiographical novella by Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, written in 1922 during his emigration, following one year in a boy's life on a Samara estate.
Nil Darpan
Nil Darpan (নীলদর্পণ, also Neel Darpan) is an 1860 Bengali play by Dinabandhu Mitra exposing the coercion of indigo planters against Bengali peasants during the Indigo Rebellion.
Nimisham
Nimisham (നിമിഷം; "The Moment") is a 1945 poetry collection by G. Sankara Kurup, a Malayalam poet known as Mahakavi G and the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, for Odakkuzhal.
Nimona
Nimona is a science fantasy graphic novel by ND Stevenson, serialized as a webcomic from 2012 to 2014 and collected by HarperTeen in 2015. A 2015 National Book Award finalist about a shapeshifting girl and villain Ballister Blackheart, it was adapted into a 2023 Netflix animated film.
NIN Award
The NIN Award (Нинова награда) is a Serbian literary prize given annually since 1955 by the magazine NIN for the best novel of the previous year.
Ninay
Ninay is a novel in Spanish by Pedro Alejandro Paterno, published in Madrid in 1885 and generally considered the first novel written by a Filipino author.
Nine Changes
Nine Changes (Jiu Bian, 九辩) is a long lyric poem attributed to Song Yu, in the Chu Ci anthology and the founding work of Chinese autumn lament.
Nine Fairy Tales
Nine Fairy Tales is a 1931 collection of original fairy tales in Czech by the writer Karel Čapek, illustrated by his brother, the painter Josef Čapek.
Nine Perfect Strangers
Nine Perfect Strangers is Liane Moriarty's 2018 Flatiron novel about nine guests at a 10-day Australian wellness retreat, Tranquillum House, run by guru Masha; a New York Times bestseller adapted into the 2021 Hulu series with Nicole Kidman.
Nine Songs
The Nine Songs (九歌) is a set of eleven sacrificial hymns in the Chu Ci of ancient Chu, traditionally attributed to the Warring States poet Qu Yuan.
Nine Stories
Nine Stories is a 1953 collection of nine short stories by J. D. Salinger, his first book after The Catcher in the Rye, published by Little, Brown.
Nineteen Old Poems
The Nineteen Old Poems (Gushi shijiu shou) are nineteen anonymous Han dynasty five-character lyric poems, first assembled in the early sixth-century Wen Xuan and long celebrated as classics of Chinese poetry.
Ninety-Three
Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) is Victor Hugo's last historical novel, published in Paris on 19 February 1874 and set in 1793 during the royalist Vendée uprising against the French Republic.
Nini, Mulâtresse du Sénégal
Nini, Mulâtresse du Sénégal is a 1954 French-language novel by the Senegalese writer Abdoulaye Sadji, whose heroine Nini tries to improve her social position by marrying a Frenchman.
Ninjō shōsetsu
Ninjō shōsetsu (人情本), also read ninjōbon, were realistic popular fiction of late Edo-period Japan depicting the love affairs and emotional conflicts of townspeople, chiefly for women readers.
Ninjōbon
Ninjōbon are sentimental Japanese love stories of Edo townspeople that emerged around 1818 and peaked in the Tenpō era, with Tamenaga Shunsui as their leading author.
Ninku (忍空)
Ninku (忍空, NINKU) is a 1993–1995 Weekly Shonen Jump manga by Koji Kiriyama about Fusuke and the martial art Ninku, ninjutsu plus karate; adapted into a 55-episode 1995 Studio Pierrot anime and a 2005–2011 Ultra Jump sequel, and a major influence on Naruto.
Ninus Romance
The Ninus Romance is a fragmentary anonymous Greek romance telling the courtship of young Ninus, founder of Nineveh, and Semiramis; it is the oldest Greek novel known.
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (芽むしり仔撃ち, Memushiri kōchi) is a 1958 novel by Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe, his first, following reformatory boys abandoned in a quarantined wartime mountain village.
Nippon Sangoku
Nippon Sangoku (日本三國) is a Matsuki Ikka manga on Shogakukan's MangaOne, a Three Kingdoms-style war saga in post-collapse Japan split into Yamato, Buō, and Seii; TV anime premiered April 2026, sequel announced September 2026.
Nirat Mueang Klaeng
Nirat Mueang Klaeng (นิราศเมืองแกลง, "The Journey to Klaeng") is a Thai travel poem by Sunthorn Phu, written in klon octameter on a journey from Bangkok to Klaeng to visit his father.
Nirat Phu Khao Thong
Nirat Phu Khao Thong (นิราศภูเขาทอง) is a Thai nirat poem by Sunthorn Phu recounting a boat journey from Bangkok to worship the Golden Mount chedi at Ayutthaya.
Nirjharer Swapnabhanga
Nirjharer Swapnabhanga (নির্ঝরের স্বপ্নভঙ্গ, "The Awakening of the Waterfall") is an 1882 Bengali poem by Rabindranath Tagore, born of a mystical experience in Calcutta and regarded as inaugurating his mature poetic career.
Nirmala (निर्मला) (novel)
Nirmala (निर्मला) is a 1927 Hindi social novel by Munshi Premchand, serialized in the magazine Chand, about a fifteen-year-old girl married to a middle-aged widower through the dowry system.