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Quicksilver (Hart novel)
Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, book 1) is Callie Hart's 2024 dark romantasy about Saeris Fane, whose metal powers draw her through a quicksilver portal into a fae realm; a BookTok hit, New York Times No. 1 bestseller, and Netflix adaptation.
Quidditch Through the Ages
Quidditch Through the Ages, also published as by Kennilworthy Whisp, is J.K. Rowling's 2001 Comic Relief charity book, a Hogwarts Library companion to Fantastic Beasts charting the fictional sport of Quidditch from Queerditch Marsh to the modern game, with later illustrated editions.
Quiet Night Thoughts
Quiet Night Thoughts (静夜思, Jìng Yè Sī) is a short poem by the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, in which moonlight beside a bed is mistaken for frost.
Quincas Borba
Quincas Borba is an 1891 novel by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, in which a schoolteacher inherits a philosopher's fortune and is exploited into madness.
Quốc âm thi tập
Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集, "Collection of poems in the national sound") is the earliest surviving collection of Vietnamese-language poetry, 254 chữ Nôm poems attributed to the 15th-century statesman Nguyễn Trãi.
R. A. Salvatore bibliography
R. A. Salvatore bibliography: published fiction of Robert Anthony Salvatore (born 1959), from The Crystal Shard (1988) through the 39-book Legend of Drizzt saga, the DemonWars Saga, and Star Wars tie-ins such as Vector Prime.
R'lyeh
R'lyeh (also Arlyeh, Urilia) is H.P. Lovecraft's fictional sunken corpse-city in the South Pacific, home of the dreaming Cthulhu, central to "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928), noted for non-Euclidean, Cyclopean architecture.
Raat ka Reporter
Raat ka Reporter (रात का रिपोर्टर) is a 1989 Hindi novel by Nirmal Verma, possibly the first Hindi novel about the Emergency of 1975 to 1977.
Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run is John Updike's 1960 Knopf novel, first of the four Rabbit books, told in the present tense. Twenty-six-year-old Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom deserts his pregnant wife Janice and son Nelson, briefly finds Ruth, and runs again after the baby's drowning.
Rabelais and His World
Rabelais and His World is a 1965 book by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin that reads François Rabelais as the culmination of a folk culture of laughter and carnival.
Rachathirat
Rachathirat is a Thai prose chronicle-novel about the Mon king Rachathirat, translated from Mon documents by Chao Phraya Phra Khlang under King Rama I in 1785.
Radagast
Radagast the Brown (Quenya Aiwendil, 'Lover of Birds') is one of the five Istari in Tolkien's legendarium, a Maia of Yavanna dwelling at Rhosgobel near Mirkwood, famed for sending Gwaihir to free Gandalf and for fading from the War of the Ring.
Radhika Santwanam
Radhika Santwanam (రాధికా సాంత్వనము; "Appeasing Radhika"), also titled Ila Deviyamu, is an 18th-century Telugu erotic narrative poem by the courtesan-poet Muddupalani of Thanjavur, telling of Radha's jealousy and reconciliation after Krishna marries Ila.
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book of two Tom Wolfe essays, including "Radical Chic," about a Bernstein Black Panther fundraiser.
Radiografía de la pampa
Radiografía de la pampa is a 1933 essay by the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, his most famous book, diagnosing Argentine society through its pampas.
Radziwiłł Chronicle
The Radziwiłł Chronicle (Радзивиловская летопись) is the oldest surviving illustrated East Slavic chronicle, a late-15th-century copy narrating Rus' history to 1206 and held in Saint Petersburg since 1761.
Rage (King novel)
Rage, first written as Getting It On, is a 1977 Stephen King novel published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, in which student Charlie Decker holds his algebra class hostage.
Raggedy Ann
Raggedy Ann, rag doll character created by Johnny Gruelle, patented 1915, debuted in the 1918 Raggedy Ann Stories from P.F. Volland with a matching doll; brother Raggedy Andy followed in 1920; trademark now held by Hasbro and Simon & Schuster.
Raghavapandaviya
The Rāghavapāṇḍavīya (राघवपाण्डवीयम्) is a Sanskrit epic poem by the court poet Kavirāja, composed about 1175, whose every verse carries two meanings, one from the Rāmāyaṇa and one from the Mahābhārata.
Raghavapandaviyamu
Raghavapandaviyamu (రాఘవపాండవీయము) is a sixteenth-century Telugu dvyarthi kavya by Pingali Surana, the earliest available shlesha kavya in Telugu, whose every verse tells both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
Raghavayadaviya
The Raghavayadaviya (राघवयादवीयम्) is a 17th-century Sanskrit poem by Venkatadhvarin of Kanchipuram, whose same thirty stanzas celebrate Rama when read forward and Krishna when read in reverse.
Ragnarsdrápa
Ragnarsdrápa is a 9th-century skaldic shield poem attributed to Norwegian poet Bragi Boddason, describing mythological scenes on a shield given by Ragnar and preserved in Snorri's Edda.
Rags to riches
Rags to riches: a narrative archetype in which a poor protagonist rises to wealth or status, found in Cinderella-type fairy tales (AT510), Horatio Alger's ~120 boys' books, and tested against sociological mobility data.
Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime is a 1996 musical by Flaherty, Ahrens, and McNally based on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 novel about three families in turn-of-the-century New York. It ran 834 performances on Broadway from 1998, won four Tonys, and its 2025 Lincoln Center revival won Best Revival at the 2026 Tony Awards.
Ragtime (novel)
Ragtime is E. L. Doctorow's 1975 Random House historical novel following three New York families, a WASP household, Jewish immigrant Tateh, and pianist Coalhouse Walker, alongside real figures like Houdini and Morgan; it won the first National Book Critics Circle fiction award and inspired a 1981 film and 1998 Broadway musical.
Rahman Abbas (رحمان عباس)
Rahman Abbas (رحمان عباس), born 1972 near Ratnagiri, is an Indian Urdu novelist from Mumbai. Known for Rohzin (2016), which won the 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award and was translated into German and English, and for Zindiq (2021); his first novel drew a ten-year obscenity case.
Rai Rai Rai (らいらいらい)
Rai Rai Rai (雷雷雷) is an ongoing shonen sci-fi action comedy manga by Yoshiaki, serialized since 2023 in Shogakukan's UraSunday and MangaONE, about debt-laden exterminator Sumire Ichigaya fused with a talking alien arm; published in English by VIZ.
Raiden-18
RAIDEN-18 (雷電18号) is a gag one-shot manga series by Hiromu Arakawa of Fullmetal Alchemist fame, serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday GX from 2005 to 2021 about mad scientist Dr. Tachibana and her corpse-built creature Raiden 18, collected in one volume in June 2021.
Railroad
"Railroad" (Russian: «Железная дорога», "The Railway") is a poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1864, on the human cost of building the Nikolaevskaya railway between Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
Rain Alley
Rain Alley (雨巷) is a 1927 poem by the Chinese poet Dai Wangshu, whose musical style made his reputation and earned him the nickname "rain alley poet".