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Romantic Killer
Romantic Killer (ロマンティック・キラー), Wataru Momose's four-volume Shonen Jump+ romantic-comedy manga, follows Anzu Hoshino resisting the wizard Riri's forced romance; adapted as a 12-episode Netflix anime premiering October 27, 2022.
Romantic literature
Romantic literature: writing of European Romanticism, c. 1785–1848, rejecting neoclassical restraint for emotion and imagination; founded in England by Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798), in Germany by Sturm und Drang and Goethe's Werther.
Romantic literature in English
Romantic literature in English: British writing c.1780–1830, launched by Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798), centered on the Big Six poets, feeling, nature, and imagination, alongside Austen, Scott, and Shelley's fiction.
Romantic poetry
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romanticism movement, which thrived in Europe and the Americas from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, embracing nature and emotion.
Romanzero
Romanzero is an 1851 poetry collection by the German poet Heinrich Heine, published in Hamburg as his final major lyric collection, written largely from his sickbed in Paris.
Romelia War Chronicle
Romelia War Chronicle (ロメリア戦記, Romelia Senki) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series by Ryō Ariyama about a countess abandoned after the Demon King's defeat who builds her own army; it has a Mag Garden manga, Seven Seas English edition, and a 2026 Atra anime.
Romeo
Romeo Montague, protagonist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595-96), teenage son of Lord and Lady Montague; loves Juliet Capulet, kills Tybalt, is banished, and dies by poison in the tomb.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Verona tragedy of the feuding Montagues and Capulets, written 1595-6, printed 1597, based on Brooke's 1562 poem; famous for a balcony scene Shakespeare never wrote.
Romola
Romola is a historical novel by George Eliot set in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, centered on the reformer Savonarola and the spiritual education of Romola de' Bardi.
Rómulo Gallegos Prize
The Rómulo Gallegos Prize is a biennial Venezuelan literary award for the best novel in Spanish, created in 1964 and among the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious.
Romulus, My Father
Romulus, My Father is a 1998 memoir by Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita about his father, a migrant who raised him in rural Victoria after the Second World War.
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley (Ronald Bilius Weasley) is the fictional best friend of Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling's series: youngest Weasley son, Gryffindor, locket-Horcrux destroyer, Hermione's husband, played by Rupert Grint.
Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk
Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk is a 1982 Indonesian novel by Ahmad Tohari, the first book of a trilogy, following Srintil, a girl who becomes her hamlet's ronggeng dancer.
Rongzhai Suibi
Rongzhai Suibi (容齋隨筆, "Random Jottings from the Rong Studio") is a collection of scholarly notes by the Southern Song scholar Hong Mai, praised for its textual criticism.
Rook en Oker
Rook en Oker (Smoke and Ochre) is a 1963 poetry collection by Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker, whose poem "Die kind" Nelson Mandela read at Parliament in 1994.
Room (novel)
Room (2010) by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue: a Man Booker-shortlisted novel narrated by five-year-old Jack, born in captivity with his Ma, inspired by the Fritzl case; adapted into a 2015 Oscar-nominated film.
Room 999 (号室)
Room 999 (999号室) is a dystopian manga by Nanga Nan, serialized since November 2025 in Shogakukan's Monthly! Spirits, about courier 1871 delivering letters to monsters in a giant housing block; volume 1 (May 2026) passed 79,999 copies in print.
Roose Bolton
Roose Bolton, the Leech Lord, is Lord of the Dreadfort in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones (played by Michael McElhatton); he betrayed and killed Robb Stark at the Red Wedding and was made Warden of the North.
Roots (2016 miniseries)
Roots (2016) is a four-night, eight-hour History Channel miniseries remaking the 1977 ABC classic from Alex Haley's novel, starring Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, and Laurence Fishburne, directed by four directors including Phillip Noyce.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 Alex Haley novel tracing seven generations beginning with Kunta Kinte, abducted from Gambia into slavery.
Rosa fresca aulentissima
Rosa fresca aulentissima is a thirteenth-century Italian contrasto, a dialogue-poem attributed to the Sicilian poet Cielo d'Alcamo in which a suitor courts a woman who first rebuffs him and finally yields.
Rosa Mistika
Rosa Mistika is a 1971 Swahili novel by the Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi, his first, following a schoolgirl who faces sexual exploitation at a boarding school.
Rosaline
Rosaline is the unseen woman Romeo loves before Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; she has sworn chastity, and her rejection drives the plot. Also a speaking character in Love's Labor's Lost and the heroine of adaptations such as the 2022 Hulu film Rosaline and Solomons' Fair Rosaline.
Rosaura a las diez
Rosaura a las diez is a 1955 crime novel by Argentine writer Marco Denevi, set in a Buenos Aires boarding house and told through five contradictory testimonies.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is the opening line of Gertrude Stein's 1913 poem "Sacred Emily" (published 1922 in Geography and Plays), often read as "things are what they are" though Stein gave a different explanation.
Rose, Rose, I Love You
Rose, Rose, I Love You (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你) is a 1984 satirical novel by the Taiwanese writer Wang Chen-ho, about a Hualien town preparing brothels for American soldiers.
Roseanna
Roseanna is a 1965 Swedish crime novel by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, the first of ten Martin Beck police procedurals published between 1965 and 1975.
Rosemary's Baby (novel)
Rosemary's Baby is Ira Levin's 1967 Random House horror novel about Rosemary Woodhouse, a Manhattan wife tricked into bearing Satan's child, the Antichrist; it was a best seller and basis of Polanski's 1968 film.
Rosen Garten Saga
Rosen Garten Saga (ローゼンガーテン・サーガ, Rosengarten Saga), a finished 15-volume, 99-chapter erotic dark-fantasy manga by Sakimori Fuji and Bakotsu Tonooka, serialized on Hero's Inc.'s Comiplex 2020–2026, about Rin wielding Siegfried's possessed sword in the Rosengarten Schlacht tournament.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet's school friends and Claudius's spies in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the title figures of Tom Stoppard's 1966 absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which won the 1968 Tony for Best Play and a 1990 film with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth.