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Red Sonja
Red Sonja, the She-Devil with a Sword, is a sword-and-sorcery comics heroine created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith in Conan the Barbarian #23 (1973), based on Howard's Red Sonya of Rogatino; published by Marvel until 1995 and by Dynamite since 2005.
Red Star Over China
Red Star Over China is a 1937 book by American journalist Edgar Snow, the first Western account of the Chinese Communist Party after the Long March.
Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Rising (1986), Tom Clancy's standalone techno-thriller co-plotted with wargame designer Larry Bond's Harpoon system, depicts a conventional Soviet-NATO World War III triggered by the destruction of Soviet oil facilities; a #1 bestseller still in print.
Red, White & Royal Blue
Red, White & Royal Blue: 2019 queer romance debut novel by Casey McQuiston (St. Martin's Griffin) in which First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz falls for Prince Henry of Wales; NYT bestseller, 2023 Prime Video film, sequel and novella announced.
Redeeming Love
Redeeming Love, also known as the Francine Rivers Hosea retelling, is a 1991 Christian historical romance set in Gold Rush California, about Angel and Michael Hosea; it sold over three million copies and became a 2022 film.
Redgauntlet
Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century is an 1824 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfriesshire in 1765, depicting a fictional third Jacobite rising that collapses without a sword drawn.
Redo of Healer (回復術士のやり直し)
Redo of Healer (回復術士のやり直し) is a dark revenge fantasy light novel by Tsukiyo Rui, Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko, 2017; healing hero Keyaru rewinds time for revenge; 2021 TV anime by TNK; manga by Souken Haga ongoing.
Redology
Redology (紅學) is the field of scholarship devoted to Dream of the Red Chamber, the eighteenth-century Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin, covering its text, versions, and background.
Reduta Ordona
Reduta Ordona is a patriotic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in Dresden in 1832, describing the defense of a Warsaw redoubt against the Russian assault of 1831.
Redwall
Redwall is Brian Jacques's 22-novel children's fantasy series (1986-2011) about anthropomorphic animals defending Redwall Abbey; written for a Liverpool school for the blind, adapted for TV, with 2025 Netflix plans scrapped.
Reference work
Reference work: a book or resource designed to be consulted for specific facts rather than read through, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, almanacs, atlases, and bibliographies; typically tertiary, non-circulating, and now largely digital.
Reflections at the Front Entrance
Reflections at the Front Entrance (Размышления у парадного подъезда) is an 1858 poem by Nikolai Nekrasov about peasants turned away from a St. Petersburg grandee's door.
Refutation of the Sects
Refutation of the Sects (Ełc ałandocʿ, Եղծ աղանդոց) is a fifth-century apologetic treatise by the Armenian bishop Eznik Koghbatsi, refuting paganism, Zoroastrianism, Greek philosophy, and Marcion in Classical Armenian.
Regency romance
Regency romance is a subgenre of historical romance whose love stories are set in the British Regency of 1811 to 1820, founded by Georgette Heyer.
Regentonnenvariationen
Regentonnenvariationen is a 2014 poetry collection by German poet Jan Wagner, which in 2015 became the first poetry book to win the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Reggie Mantle
Reggie Mantle (Reginald Mantle), Archie Comics prankster-rival of Archie Andrews, debuting in Jackpot Comics #5 (Spring 1942); known for vanity, schemes against Archie and Moose, Evilheart alter ego, The Archies membership, and TV adaptations.
Regret for the Past
Regret for the Past (伤逝, Shangshi) is a 1925 short story by Chinese writer Lu Xun, his only story on love and marriage, collected in Wandering.
Rehovot Ha-Nahar
Rehovot Ha-Nahar (רחובות הנהר, "Streets of the River") is a 1951 book of Hebrew poetry by Uri Zvi Greenberg lamenting the Holocaust's destruction of European Jewry.
Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling (転生したらドラゴンの卵だった)
Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling (転生したらドラゴンの卵だった), by Nekoko and NAJI Yanagida, is a Japanese isekai web-novel-turned-light-novel in which a man reincarnates as a dragon egg, levels up, and evolves; finished at 17 volumes, adapted into manga by RIO and a January 2026 TV anime.
Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble
Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble (Shiro Buta Kizoku desu ga Zense no Kioku ga Haeta node Hiyoko na Otōto Sodatemasu) is a Japanese light novel series written by Yashiro and illustrated by keepout since 2018.
Reincarnated as a Sword (転生したら剣でした)
Reincarnated as a Sword (転生したら剣でした) is a Japanese isekai light novel by Yuu Tanaka and Llo about a man reborn as a sentient sword partnered with the cat-eared slave girl Fran; it began as a 2015 web novel, won the 4th Net Novel Grand Prize, and has manga and a C2C anime.
Reincarnated as the Daughter of the Legendary Hero and the Queen of Spirits
Reincarnated as the Daughter of the Legendary Hero and the Queen of Spirits (父は英雄、母は精霊、娘の私は転生者。; Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, I'm a Reincarnator) is a Japanese isekai fantasy by Matsuura about Ellen, a reincarnated half-spirit daughter of hero Rovel and spirit queen Origin, with manga in Big Gangan and an anime.
Reincarnation Coliseum
Reincarnation Coliseum is a Japanese manga by Saizō Harawata and Zunta about a summoned high schooler fighting as a gladiator with a copying skill, published in English by Yen Press.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
Reinventing the Enemy's Language is a 1997 anthology of poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir by over eighty Indigenous women writers, edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird.
Reír llorando
"Reír llorando" is a well-known poem by Mexican writer Juan de Dios Peza, in which actor David Garrick reveals the sadness behind a laughing face.
Rejection (short story collection)
Rejection (2024) is Tony Tulathimutte's collection of seven connected stories about romantic, professional, and social rejection, published by William Morrow and longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.
Reki Kawahara (川原礫)
Reki Kawahara (川原礫, born 1974, Gunma) is the Japanese light novel author of Sword Art Online and Accel World. He wrote SAO as the web novelist Kunori Fumio from 2001 before debuting with the 15th Dengeki Novel Prize grand prize in 2009; SAO-related series exceed 30 million copies.
Relación de los hechos
Relación de los hechos is a book of poems by the Mexican poet José Carlos Becerra, published by Ediciones Era in Mexico in 1967, his only full book in his lifetime.
Relación histórica del viaje a la América meridional
Relación histórica del viaje a la América meridional is a 1748 book by Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa describing their South American expedition and first describing platinum.
Religio Medici
Religio Medici, Latin for "the religion of a doctor," is a meditative prose work by Sir Thomas Browne expressing his Christian faith, first printed in 1642.