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Shantaram (novel)
Shantaram, 2003 semi-autobiographical novel by Gregory David Roberts; narrator Lin, an escaped Australian convict, runs a Bombay slum clinic and joins the mafia under Khader Khan; Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book 2004, 936 pages, adapted as a 2022 Apple TV+ series.
Shantaram (TV series)
Shantaram is a 2022 American drama series on Apple TV+, adapted from Gregory David Roberts' novel, created by Steve Lightfoot and Eric Warren Singer and starring Charlie Hunnam.
Shanti Purana
Shanti Purana (ಶಾಂತಿಪುರಾಣ, Shantipurana) is a tenth-century Kannada Jain epic by the poet Ponna that narrates the life of Shantinatha, the sixteenth Jain Tirthankara, and earned Ponna the title Kavichakravarthi.
Shardik
Shardik (1974) is Richard Adams's second novel, an epic fantasy set in the Beklan Empire where a giant bear is worshipped as the god Lord Shardik by the Ortelgans, following hunter Kelderek's rise to priest-king and fall; sequel-world prequel Maia (1984) shares the setting.
Shardlake series
Shardlake series: C. J. Sansom's seven Tudor mystery novels (2003–2018) starring hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, spanning 1537–1549 under Henry VIII and Edward VI, with an unfinished eighth novel and a 2024 Disney+/ITV adaptation.
Shared universe
Shared universe (shared world): a fictional universe where multiple writers contribute stand-alone works sharing one continuity, from Balzac's 1834 linked novels through Marvel's 1960s comics continuity to the MCU, with canon precedence rules and measurable post-Endgame profitability decline.
Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects is the 2006 debut novel of Gillian Flynn, a psychological crime thriller in which reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to cover killings.
Sharpe (novel series)
Sharpe is Bernard Cornwell's historical novel series (24 novels plus short stories, begun with Sharpe's Eagle, 1981) following Richard Sharpe of the 95th Rifles from India through the Peninsular War to Waterloo, adapted for ITV with Sean Bean.
Sharpe's Storm
Sharpe's Storm is Bernard Cornwell's 24th Richard Sharpe novel (19th chronologically), set in southern France in December 1813, published UK 21 October 2025 and US 2 December 2025, possibly the series finale.
Shaseibun
Shaseibun (写生文, "sketch writing") is a Japanese prose genre advocated by the Meiji poet Masaoka Shiki, applying the painter's practice of drawing from life to prose.
Shatakatraya
Shatakatraya (शतकत्रय, "three centuries") is a Sanskrit collection of three verse centuries, the Nītiśataka, Śṛṅgāraśataka, and Vairāgyaśataka, attributed to Bhartrihari and treating worldly wisdom, erotic passion, and ascetic detachment.
Shatnerverse
Shatnerverse: unofficial fan name for the continuity of ten Star Trek novels (1995–2007, Pocket Books) credited to William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, in which Kirk is resurrected after Generations, separate from the Lit-verse and screen canon.
Shatrughna (शत्रुघ्न)
Shatrughna (शत्रुघ्न, Thai Phra Satarut), 'destroyer of enemies', youngest Ramayana brother: son of Sumitra, twin of Lakshmana, companion of Bharata, slayer of Lavanasura and founder-king of Mathura in the Uttara Kanda.
Shatter Me
Shatter Me is Tahereh Mafi's 2011 HarperTeen debut, a YA dystopian romance about Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old with a lethal touch, first of the Shatter Me series.
Shayad
Shayad (شاید, "Perhaps") is the first published poetry collection of the Urdu poet Jaun Elia, issued around 1990 when he was nearly sixty and the only one published in his lifetime.
She Had Some Horses
She Had Some Horses is a 1983 poetry collection by the Mvskoke (Muscogee Creek) poet Joy Harjo, a landmark of Native American poetry known for its incantatory title poem exploring womanhood.
She Walks in Beauty
"She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyric poem by Lord Byron, written in 1814 and published in 1815 in Hebrew Melodies, comparing a woman's beauty to a starry night.
She Who Became the Sun
She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan's 2021 debut (Radiant Emperor duology, book 1), is a queer historical fantasy reimagining the rise of Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang as a girl who takes her brother's identity; Astounding Award winner and Hugo finalist.
She: A History of Adventure
She: A History of Adventure is an 1886–87 lost-world romance by H. Rider Haggard, serialised in The Graphic, about Cambridge professor Horace Holly and Leo Vincey seeking Ayesha, the immortal queen "She-who-must-be-obeyed," in the African ruins of Kôr.
She'r-e Now
She'r-e Now (شعر نو, "New Poetry"), also called Nimaic poetry, is the modernist movement in twentieth-century Persian poetry founded by Nima Yushij that broke with classical meter, rhyme, and fixed forms.
Sheep on the Hillside: Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass
"Sheep on the Hillside: Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass" (山坡羊·潼关怀古) is a 1329 sanqu by Chinese poet Zhang Yanghao, famed for the couplet "In rise, the people suffer; in fall, the people suffer."
Shen Gongbao (申公豹)
Shen Gongbao (申公豹) is the fictional Chan-sect villain of the Ming novel Fengshen Yanyi, Jiang Ziya's jealous junior fellow disciple who persuades cultivators to fight Zhou and is finally invested as East Sea Water-Splitting General.
Shere Khan (शेर खान)
Shere Khan (शेर खान), “Tiger Chief,” is the lame man-eating tiger and chief villain of Kipling's Jungle Book Mowgli stories, killed by Mowgli in a buffalo stampede and later voiced by George Sanders, Idris Elba, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is the fictional consulting detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, debuting in A Study in Scarlet (1887); the canon holds 4 novels and 56 short stories, and Holmes is the most portrayed literary character on screen, fully in the US public domain since 2023.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is a 2016 adventure mystery video game by Frogwares, sequel to The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, with five cases, deduction-board gameplay, moral choices, and mixed reviews (Metacritic 65).
Shesh Lekha
Sesh Lekha (Bengali: শেষলেখা, "Last Writings") is the final poetry collection of Rabindranath Tagore: fifteen poems, mostly written or dictated on his deathbed and published posthumously in 1941.
Shesh Saptak
Shesh Saptak (শেষ সপ্তক, "Last Octave") is a collection of 45 Bengali prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore, published in Calcutta by Visva-Bharati in 1935 on the poet's seventy-fourth birthday.
Shesher Kabita
Shesher Kabita (শেষের কবিতা, "The Last Poem") is a 1929 novel by Rabindranath Tagore, a landmark of Bengali literature telling of lovers who part by their own will.
Shetkaryacha Asud
Shetkaryacha Asud (शेतकऱ्याचा असूड; "The Cultivator's Whipcord") is an extended Marathi polemic on agriculture and the condition of peasants, written by the anti-caste reformer Jotirao Phule in 1883.
Sheyda
Sheyda is a 1917 romantic drama in verse by Azerbaijani playwright Huseyn Javid, published in Baku, depicting the hard life of printing workers and the idea of freedom.