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Random Thoughts
Random Thoughts (Suixianglu, also translated as Reflections) is a collection of 150 essays by the Chinese writer Ba Jin, written from 1978 to 1986 and reflecting on the Cultural Revolution.
Ranger's Apprentice
Ranger's Apprentice is a twelve-book young-adult fantasy series by Australian author John Flanagan, begun with The Ruins of Gorlan (2004), set in the magic-free medieval kingdom of Araluen, following orphan apprentice Will; over fifteen million copies sold, extended by Royal Ranger, Early Years, and Brotherband series.
Rani Ketaki ki Kahani
Rani Ketaki ki Kahani (رانی کیتکی کی کہانی) is an early Urdu prose romance by Sayyed Insha Allah Khan Insha, compiled in 1803, telling the love story of Rani Ketki and Prince Uday Bhan.
Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan
Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan, translated as No Harvest but a Thorn, is a 1966 Malay novel by Shahnon Ahmad about a poor paddy-farming family facing floods, drought, and pests.
Ranma ½ (らんま½)
Ranma ½ (らんま1/2) is Rumiko Takahashi's martial arts romantic comedy manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday 1987–1996, 38 volumes, 53 million copies, about Ranma Saotome, cursed to become a girl with cold water, engaged to Akane Tendo; adapted into anime in 1989 and remade from 2024.
Ranolf and Amohia
Ranolf and Amohia is a long narrative poem by Alfred Domett, published in London in 1872, telling of a love between a British adventurer and a Māori princess.
Raoul Duke
Raoul Duke is Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego and the narrator-protagonist of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), a journalist traveling with Dr. Gonzo, based on Oscar Acosta; also Johnny Depp's 1998 film role.
Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Raphael is the red-masked, sai-wielding Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, debuting in TMNT #1 (May 1984); the aggressive, rebellious brother and subject of the first TMNT spin-off comic.
Raptor Red
Raptor Red is Robert T. Bakker's 1995 Bantam novel narrated by a female Utahraptor in Cretaceous Utah, dramatizing his warm-blooded dinosaur theories; reviewed by Kirkus, Scientific American, and NYRB.
Rasa'il al-Jahiz
Rasa'il al-Jahiz (رسائل الجاحظ) is the surviving corpus of over forty essays by the Abbasid prose writer al-Jahiz (died 868), spanning adab, Mu'tazili theology, politics, and biology.
Rasagangadhara
Rasagangadhara is a 17th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by Jagannatha Panditaraja, composed between 1641 and 1650 and covering poetic theory from rasa to figures of speech.
Rasakallola
Rasakallola is a medieval Odia chhanda kavya by Dinakrushna Das, composed in the Riti era, narrating the divine life of Krishna and his love for Radha.
Rasamanjari
Rasamanjari (रसमञ्जरी) is a 15th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by Bhanudatta Misra classifying the heroes and heroines of love poetry, which inspired Indian miniature painting.
Rascal Does Not Dream
Rascal Does Not Dream (Seishun Buta Yaro, Aobuta) is a Japanese light novel series by Hajime Kamoshida and Keiji Mizoguchi (Dengeki Bunko, 2014–2024, 15 volumes) about Sakuta Azusagawa and Puberty Syndrome, adapted by CloverWorks into a 2018 anime, films, and a 2025 University Arc season.
Rashahat 'Ayn al-Hayat
Rashahat 'Ayn al-Hayat is a Persian biographical work completed in 1503 by 'Ali Safi on the lives and sayings of Naqshbandi Sufi masters of Central Asia.
Rashmirathi
Rashmirathi (रश्मिरथी) is a 1952 Hindi epic poem by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar that retells the life of Karna, the tragic Mahabharata warrior, in seven cantos. Its title means "the Sun's charioteer."
Rashōmon (short story)
Rashōmon (羅生門) is Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's 1915 short story, from Konjaku Monogatari, in which a dismissed servant robs an old woman under Kyoto's ruined gate; distinct from "In a Grove" and the 1950 Kurosawa film.
Rasidi Ticket
Rasidi Ticket, translated as The Revenue Stamp, is Amrita Pritam's 1976 autobiography, a landmark of frankness recording her Partition displacement, love for Sahir Ludhianvi, and companionship with Imroz.
Rasik poetry
Rasik poetry is the love poetry of the Braj Bhasha tradition of North India, addressed to the rasika, a connoisseur of rasa, and codified by Keshavdas around 1600.
Rasikpriya
Rasikpriya (रसिकप्रिया, also spelled Rasikapriya) is a 1591 Braj Bhasha treatise on love poetry and poetics by Keshavdas, a foundational text of the ritikavya tradition.
Rat Queens
Rat Queens is a darkly comedic fantasy comic by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Roc Upchurch, published by Image Comics from September 25, 2013, following mercenary women Hannah, Violet, Dee, and Betty in the city Palisade.
Rathrimazha
Rathrimazha (രാത്രിമഴ, "Night Rain") is a Malayalam poem by Sugathakumari, title poem of her 1977 collection, whose sickbed speaker identifies herself with the night rain.
Rattlesnakes (novella)
Rattlesnakes is a 2024 horror novella by Stephen King, a sequel to Cujo, published in You Like It Darker. Widower Vic Trenton, 72, inherits a Florida Key haunted by ghost twins and a pram.
Ravana (रावण)
Ravana (रावण), also Tosakanth in Thai tradition, is the ten-headed demon-king of Lanka in the Ramayana who abducts Sita and is killed by Rama; across South and Southeast Asia he is also honored as scholar, Shiva devotee, and anti-hero.
Ravshan
Ravshan is an Uzbek folk epic (doston) of the Go'ro'g'li cycle, telling of Ravshan's journey to win Zulxumor, princess of Shirvan, best recorded from the bakhshi Ergash Jumanbulbul o'g'li.
Rawzat al-Shuhada
Rawzat al-Shuhada (روضة الشهداء, "Garden of the Martyrs") is a Persian Alid martyrology of ten chapters by Husayn Va'iz Kashifi, composed in 908/1502-3 and focused on Imam Husayn at Karbala.
Raylan Givens
Raylan Givens is Elmore Leonard's fictional Deputy U.S. Marshal, introduced in Pronto (1993) and central to the FX series Justified (2010–2015), played by Timothy Olyphant, a Stetson-wearing Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner turned quick-draw lawman.
Razglednicák
Razglednicák is a cycle of four short poems by Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, written in autumn 1944 during his death march from the Bor labor camp.
Razmnama
The Razmnama ("Book of War") is the Persian abridgement of the Sanskrit Mahabharata ordered by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582 and illustrated at his imperial workshop.
Re:Zero
Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活) is Tappei Nagatsuki's ongoing isekai light novel series, begun as a 2012 web novel, published by MF Bunko J since 2014, centered on Subaru Natsuki's Return by Death time-loop ability.