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Animorphs
Animorphs is K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant's Scholastic sci-fi series (54 books, 1996-2001, 35 million copies) about teens Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco, who morph into animals to fight the parasitic Yeerks within two-hour limits.
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter is Laurell K. Hamilton's urban fantasy series begun with Guilty Pleasures (1993), following necromancer and vampire executioner Anita Blake in an alternate St. Louis; 30 novels through Slay (2023), with a mid-series shift toward erotica.
Ankh-Morpork City Watch
Ankh-Morpork City Watch: fictional police force in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, led by Sam Vimes, subject of eight novels, the 2021 TV series The Watch, audiobooks, and board games.
Anlatamıyorum
Anlatamıyorum ("I cannot tell") is a short poem by Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık, first published in Garip (1941) and written in plain, everyday language.
Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина)
Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a realist novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1877, following Anna's tragic love for Count Vronsky alongside landowner Konstantin Levin's search for meaning.
Anna on the Neck
Anna on the Neck (Анна на шее) is an 1895 short story by Anton Chekhov, about a young woman who marries a wealthy official to save her impoverished family.
Anna Snegina
Anna Snegina (Анна Снегина) is an autobiographical lyrical-epic poem by Sergei Yesenin, completed in January 1925, combining a love story with village life during the revolution.
Annabel Lee
Annabel Lee is Edgar Allan Poe's last complete poem, a ballad of love surviving death, composed May 1849 and first printed in Griswold's obituary (New-York Daily Tribune, October 9, 1849).
Annadamangal
Annadamangal (অন্নদামঙ্গল), also called Annada Mangal or Annapurnamangal, is a Bengali mangalkavya composed by Bharatchandra Ray in 1752 at the court of Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia, the last major work of the genre.
Annales
The Annales was an eighteen-book epic by the Roman poet Quintus Ennius narrating Roman history chronologically, and the first major epic in the Latin language.
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Avonlea is L.M. Montgomery's 1909 novel, the first sequel to Anne of Green Gables, following Anne Shirley from 16 to 18 as a teacher, also the title of the 1987 CBC and Disney Channel sequel film based on three Anne novels.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel published by L.C. Page, Boston, about orphan Anne Shirley at the Cuthbert farm on Prince Edward Island; an instant bestseller in about 20 languages, tied to the Cavendish, PEI Green Gables site.
Anne of the Island
Anne of the Island (1915) is L.M. Montgomery's third Anne of Green Gables novel, following Anne Shirley through Redmond College in Kingsport, rejected proposals, and her engagement to Gilbert Blythe.
Anne Shirley
Anne Shirley is the red-haired orphan heroine of L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables (赤毛のアン) and its sequels, mistakenly sent to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert on Prince Edward Island, later adapted into films, the 1985 miniseries, Anne with an E, and a 2025 anime.
Annie Allen
Annie Allen is a 1949 poetry collection by Gwendolyn Brooks following a young Black woman through Chicago life; it won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Annie January
Annie January, aka Starlight, is a fictional superhero from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys and its Prime Video adaptation played by Erin Moriarty; a member of The Seven and Young Americans with light- and electricity-based powers.
Annie John
Annie John is a 1985 coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, following a girl in colonial Antigua whose bond with her mother turns to rebellion before she leaves for England.
Annie Wilkes
Annie Wilkes, also Anne Marie Wilkes, is the psychotic former nurse and self-described number one fan who imprisons author Paul Sheldon in Stephen King's 1987 novel Misery; Kathy Bates won a Best Actress Oscar playing her in the 1990 film.
Annihilation (comics)
Annihilation is Marvel Comics' 2006 cosmic crossover written by Keith Giffen, in which Annihilus' Negative Zone Annihilation Wave devastates space, decimates the Nova Corps, and revives Marvel's cosmic line.
Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste is B. R. Ambedkar's 1936 undelivered presidential address to the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore, self-published after the invitation was revoked, arguing caste can end only by discarding the Shastras' authority.
Anniversaries
Anniversaries, Jahrestage in German, is a four-volume novel by the German writer Uwe Johnson, published 1970 to 1983 and regarded as his principal work. It follows Gesine Cresspahl through one year in New York.
Anno Domini MCMXXI
Anno Domini MCMXXI, usually known simply as Anno Domini, is the fifth poetry collection of Anna Akhmatova, printed for the publisher Petropolis in Petrograd in 1921, the only separate lifetime edition of the book.
Anonymous (2011 film)
Anonymous is a 2011 historical drama film directed by Roland Emmerich, premised on Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, as the true author of Shakespeare's plays.
Another (novel)
Another (アナザー) is a 2009 Japanese horror-mystery novel by Yukito Ayatsuji about the curse of Class 3-3 at Yomiyama North Middle School; ranked third in Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2010 and adapted into manga, anime, and film.
Another Roadside Attraction
Another Roadside Attraction is Tom Robbins's 1971 debut novel (Doubleday), a countercultural seriocomic thriller in which Marx Marvelous, Amanda, John Paul Ziller, and Plucky Purcell run a hot dog stand wildlife preserve hiding Christ's corpse abducted from the Vatican.
Ansible
The ansible is Ursula K. Le Guin's fictional faster-than-light communicator, coined in Rocannon's World (1966) from "answerable" and explained in The Dispossessed; later adopted by Card, Moon, Vinge, and others.
Answer to Sor Filotea
The Answer to Sor Filotea (Respuesta a sor Filotea) is a 1691 letter by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz defending women's right to study and write.
Answered Prayers
Answered Prayers is Truman Capote's unfinished roman a clef novel of New York high society; chapters published in Esquire 1975-1976 banished him from his society circle, and the incomplete book appeared posthumously in 1986-1987.
Antagonist
Antagonist: the force in a narrative opposing the protagonist's goal, a structural role not a moral one; from Greek anti- + agonistes; distinct from villain; can be a character, institution, system, or the protagonist's own psychology.
Antara
Antara (عنترة) is a 1932 verse drama in Arabic by the Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi, dramatizing the life of the pre-Islamic poet-knight Antara ibn Shaddad and his love for his cousin Abla.