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One Good Story, That One
One Good Story, That One is a 1993 collection of ten short stories by Canadian writer Thomas King, his first short fiction collection, blending Native oral storytelling with Western literary conventions.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 Sudamericana novel about the Buendía family in Macondo; magical-realist landmark of the Latin American Boom, about 40 million copies in 40 languages, Nobel 1982, Netflix series 2024.
One Indian Girl
One Indian Girl is Chetan Bhagat's 2016 novel (Rupa, 280 pages) about Radhika Mehta, a Goldman Sachs investment banker facing an arranged marriage; his first female-narrated novel, a preorder record-breaker with mixed reviews.
One of Us Is Lying
One of Us Is Lying is a 2017 young adult mystery novel and New York Times bestseller, the debut of American author Karen M. McManus.
One Piece: Heroines
One Piece: Heroines (ONE PIECE novel HEROINES) is a One Piece spin-off short-story collection by Jun Esaka with Sayaka Suwa's art, serialized in ONE PIECE magazine, collected in two Shueisha volumes (2021, 2024), and adapted into the July 5, 2026 anime special Episode: NAMI.
One Ring
The One Ring, also the Ruling Ring or Isildur's Bane, is Tolkien's master artefact, forged by Sauron in Mount Doom around SA 1600 to control the other Rings of Power; destroyed 25 March TA 3019.
One Shot (novel)
One Shot is Lee Child's 2005 thriller, the ninth Jack Reacher novel, published by Delacorte. A sniper kills five in Indiana; suspect James Barr demands Reacher. It earned a Macavity nomination and became the 2012 Tom Cruise film Jack Reacher.
One True Loves
One True Loves is a 2016 romance novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Atria Books) in which Emma Blair, engaged to Sam after her husband Jesse is lost in a helicopter crash, must choose when Jesse returns alive; adapted into a 2023 film starring Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu, and Luke Bracey.
One World Under Doom
One World Under Doom is Marvel Comics' 2025 nine-issue crossover by Ryan North and R.B. Silva in which Doctor Doom, Sorcerer Supreme since Blood Hunt, becomes Emperor of a United Latveria before sacrificing his rule.
One-Storey America
One-Storey America (Одноэтажная Америка), published in English as The Little Golden America, is a 1937 travel essay by the Soviet satirists Ilf and Petrov about their 1935 automobile journey across the United States.
One's Own Garden
One's Own Garden (《自己的园地》) is a 1923 collection of essays and literary criticism by the Chinese writer Zhou Zuoren, first published in Beijing and regarded as a foundation of modern Chinese literary criticism.
Onepiece (single volume)
One Piece Volume 1, Romance Dawn (冒険の夜明け), is the first tankōbon of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece: Shueisha, December 24, 1997, chapters 1–8, introducing Luffy, Shanks, Koby, Zoro, and Nami; Viz's English edition appeared September 2, 2003.
OniAi
OniAi (お兄ちゃんだけど愛さえあれば関係ないよねっ) is a 12-volume harem romantic-comedy light novel by Daisuke Suzuki, adapted into a 2012 SILVER LINK. anime about twins Akito and Akiko Himenokōji living together.
Only a Fiddler
Only a Fiddler (Kun en Spillemand) is a novel by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1837, about a poor tailor's son whose musical talent is never supported.
Onmyōji (陰陽師) (literary series)
Onmyōji (陰陽師) is Yumemakura Baku's long-running Heian-era short-story series about the onmyōji Abe no Seimei and musician Minamoto no Hiromasa solving supernatural mysteries; over 7 million copies sold, adapted into manga, films, and a Netflix anime.
Onore del vero
Onore del vero is a 1957 poetry collection by the Italian poet Mario Luzi, widely read as his first step out of Hermeticism toward everyday reality.
Onyx Storm
Onyx Storm is a 2025 fantasy novel by Rebecca Yarros, the third in her Empyrean series about dragon riders at a war college, and the year's top-selling US title.
Oom Gert Vertel en ander gedigte
Oom Gert Vertel en ander gedigte ("Oom Gert Tells and Other Poems") is the first poetry collection of Afrikaans writer C. Louis Leipoldt, published in Cape Town in 1911.
Oom Schalk Lourens tales
The Oom Schalk Lourens tales are short stories by South African writer Herman Charles Bosman, narrated by a wily old Boer farmer in the Groot Marico district.
Oompa-Loompas
Oompa-Loompas are Willy Wonka's small factory workers from Roald Dahl's 1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, originally black African pygmies, revised in 1973 to white Loompaland creatures and reimagined in the 1971, 2005, and 2023 films.
Oorblyfsels
Oorblyfsels (Afrikaans for "remains") is the shared title of three poetry collections by the South African poet Breyten Breytenbach, published in 1970, 1997, and 2009.
Open Closed Open
Open Closed Open (Hebrew: פתוח סגור פתוח, Patuach Sagur Patuach) is the final poetry collection of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, published in Jerusalem in 1998, two years before his death.
Open letter
Open letter: a published letter addressed to a specific person but written for a public readership, also called lettre ouverte. Distinguished from petitions and op-eds by direct second-person address; famous examples include Zola's J'accuse and the PLOS open letter.
Operário em Construção
"Operário em Construção" is a narrative poem of more than 200 verses by the Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, following a construction worker from alienated labor to class consciousness.
Oprah's Book Club
Oprah's Book Club, also called the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, is Winfrey's personally curated book-selection franchise launched in 1996 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, now under Oprah Daily and Apple TV+, with 125 picks and a documented million-copy-per-selection sales effect.
Ora Maritima
Ora Maritima, Latin for "The Sea Coast," is a fourth-century AD Latin geographic poem by Avienius describing the coasts of western Europe and the Mediterranean in the periplus genre.
Oraga Haru
Oraga Haru (おらが春, "My Spring") is a haibun collection by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, recording 1819 and centering on the death of his infant daughter Sato.
Oral literature
Oral literature, also called orature (Pio Zirimu, 1977), is verbal art such as epic, tales, proverbs, and song produced, transmitted, or performed without writing; studied via Parry-Lord oral-formulaic theory and Vansina's methods, and safeguarded by UNESCO as intangible heritage.
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison is Piper Kerman's 2010 Spiegel & Grau memoir of her 13 months in federal prison at Danbury, Connecticut, for a drug trafficking offense; it inspired the Netflix series.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson's 1985 semi-autobiographical debut novel about a girl raised in a Pentecostal household who leaves church and family for the woman she loves; Whitbread First Novel Award winner, adapted by the BBC in 1990.