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As I was going to St Ives
"As I was going to St Ives", also known as the St. Ives problem, is a riddle-shaped English nursery rhyme, first printed around 1825, whose trick answer is one.
As Meninas
As Meninas (The Girls) is a 1973 novel by the Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, following three young women in a São Paulo boarding house during the military dictatorship.
As Metamorfoses
As Metamorfoses (The Metamorphoses) is a 1944 book of poems by the Brazilian poet Murilo Mendes, blending surrealism with Catholic themes amid World War II.
As Minas de Prata
As Minas de Prata is a historical novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, set in Salvador, Bahia, in 1609, and his longest at six volumes.
As Though She Were Sleeping
As Though She Were Sleeping (كأنها نائمة, Ka'anaha Na'ema) is a 2007 novel by Elias Khoury following a young Lebanese woman in Beirut, Nazareth, and Jaffa before the 1948 war.
Asa Mi Asami
Asa Mi Asami (असा मी असामी, "I Am Like This!") is a humorous fictional autobiography in Marathi by P. L. Deshpande, published in 1964, narrated by an ordinary Mumbai clerk.
Ascendance of a Bookworm (本好きの下剋上)
Ascendance of a Bookworm (本好きの下剋上) is Miya Kazuki's isekai light novel series from TO Books, begun as a 2013 web novel, about a reborn book lover making books in a medieval world; 15 million copies, four anime seasons, J-Novel Club English edition.
Ascension of Isaiah
The Ascension of Isaiah is an early Christian pseudepigraphic apocalypse of the second century CE, describing Isaiah's martyrdom and his visionary tour of the seven heavens.
Ashikari
Ashikari (蘆刈, "The Reed Cutter") is a 1932 novella by Japanese writer Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, first published in the magazine Kaizō and among his classical-return works.
Ashiq Qarib
Ashiq Qarib (Aşıq Qərib), also known as Ashiq Qarib and Shahsanam, is a famous Azerbaijani love dastan, an oral epic about the minstrel Qarib and his beloved Shahsanam.
Asian Saga
The Asian Saga is James Clavell's six-novel historical fiction series (1962–1993): Shogun, Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, King Rat, Noble House, Whirlwind, set 1600–1979 across Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Iran, linked by the Struan trading family.
Âşık Garip
Âşık Garip is a love-themed Turkish folk tale, told in mixed verse and prose, about the minstrel Garip and his beloved Şah Senem, probably formed in the 16th century.
Âsım
Âsım is the sixth book of Safahat, the collected poems of Turkish poet Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, published in 1924 and considered the peak of his art.
Aslan
Aslan is the great talking lion of C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia books (1950s): creator, king, and Christ-figure of Narnia, appearing in every book, with Meryl Streep voicing him in Greta Gerwig's 2027 Magician's Nephew film.
Asli and Kerem
Asli and Kerem (Əsli və Kərəm) is an Azerbaijani love dastan of the ashiq tradition about the doomed love between Kerem, son of the khan of Ganja, and Asli, a priest's daughter.
Asma'iyyat
Asma'iyyat (الأصمعيات, al-Asma'iyyāt) is an early Arabic poetry anthology selected by the Basran philologist al-Asma'i, gathering 92 poems by 71 poets, mostly pre-Islamic, and complementing al-Mufaddal's Mufaddaliyyat.
Asrar-e-Khudi
Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرار خودی, The Secrets of the Self) is a Persian philosophical poem by Muhammad Iqbal, first published at Lahore in 1915, setting out his doctrine of khudi, or selfhood, in verse.
Assamese Mahabharata
The Assamese Mahabharata, also known as the Ashtadasa Mahabharata, is a 16th-century Assamese verse rendering of the Sanskrit epic composed chiefly by Rama Saraswati, court poet of the Koch kingdom.
Assamese novel
The Assamese novel (অসমীয়া উপন্যাস) is full-length prose fiction written in the Assamese language, a genre that began in the late nineteenth century with Padmanath Gohain Baruah's Bhanumati.
Assamese Ramayana
Madhava Kandali's Ramayana, called the Saptakanda Ramayana, is a fourteenth-century Assamese verse rendering of Valmiki's Ramayana by poet Madhava Kandali, the first Ramayana in any North East Indian language.
Assassin & Cinderella
Assassin & Cinderella (アサシン＆シンデレラ) is an ongoing shonen web manga by Yuzo Natsuno on Square Enix's Gangan Online since 2022; a spy-assassin contract-marriage romance, English via Manga UP!, Comikey, and Square Enix print.
Assassin's Apprentice
Assassin's Apprentice (1995) by Robin Hobb, pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, opens the Farseer Trilogy: bastard Fitz, trained as royal assassin, master of the Skill and stigmatized Wit; over 4 million trilogy copies, 22 languages.
Assassin's Creed (book series)
Assassin's Creed book series: licensed novels tied to Ubisoft's games, starting with Renaissance (2009) by "Oliver Bowden"; over 6 million copies sold, spanning game novelizations, original stories, and Aconyte-era global fiction.
Assassin's Quest
Assassin's Quest (1997) is Robin Hobb's third Farseer Trilogy novel, concluding FitzChivalry Farseer's story after King Shrewd's murder by Regal; distinct from Jon Kiln's Veiled Dagger novel of the same name.
Assunta
Assunta is an elegiac love poem by Polish Romantic poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written in 1870 about a poet's love for a speechless orphaned girl.
Asterix
Asterix (Astérix le Gaulois), French comic series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, first in Pilote 1959; Gaulish village resists Rome via magic potion; ~400 million copies, 111 languages.
Asterix in Lusitania
Asterix in Lusitania (Astérix en Lusitanie), 41st Asterix album by Fabcaro and Didier Conrad, released 23 October 2025; the Gauls travel to Roman Portugal to save garum maker Umaminess from the lions.
Astolfo
Astolfo (also Astolpho), paladin of Charlemagne and cousin of Orlando, is the English knight of Pulci's Morgante, Boiardo's Orlando innamorato, and Ariosto's Orlando furioso, where he rides the hippogriff and retrieves Orlando's wits from the Moon.
Astonishing X-Men
Astonishing X-Men is the name of several Marvel Comics X-Men series, the best known the 2004 flagship written by Joss Whedon and drawn by John Cassaday.
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is an international prize established by the Swedish government in 2002 for children's and young adult literature, worth five million Swedish kronor.