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Sishu

Sishu (শিশু, "The Child") is a 1903 Bengali poetry collection for children by Rabindranath Tagore, the main source for his English collection The Crescent Moon of 1913.

Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie is a 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser, his first, following Carrie Meeber's rise from small-town Wisconsin to Broadway while a married manager declines into poverty.

Sister Princess

Sister Princess (シスター・プリンセス, SisPri) is a Japanese media-mix franchise begun in Dengeki G's Magazine in 1999 by Naoto Tenhiro and Sakurako Kimino, with twelve sisters, six games, two anime, and a founding role in the imouto-moe genre.

Sisterhood Everlasting

Sisterhood Everlasting is a 2011 novel by Ann Brashares and the fifth book in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, its first written for adult readers.

Sisters in Yellow

Sisters in Yellow (黄色い家, Kiiroi ie) is Mieko Kawakami's 2023 crime-suspense novel about Hana Ito and three women running the Tokyo bar Lemon in the 1990s; it won the 2024 Yomiuri Prize and appeared in English from Knopf in 2026.

Sisu Beda

Sisu Beda is a short early Odia religious text of Saivite tantric content, described in its 1984 edition record as the earliest literary prose in Odia.

Sita (सीता)

Sita (सीता), also Sītā, is the heroine of the Ramayana: Rama's wife, abducted by Ravana, tested by fire, and finally received by the Earth. Known for hundreds of retellings, from Valmiki's Sanskrit epic to feminist Sitayanas.

Sita Samharam

Sita Samharam is the Ramayana episode in which Sita, exiled and questioned again, calls on the earth to take her back, best known through Kumaran Asan's 1919 Malayalam poem.

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (The Yellow Woodpecker Farm) is a series of 23 Brazilian children's books by Monteiro Lobato, set on Dona Benta's farm and published from 1920 to 1947.

Sitti Nurbaya

Sitti Nurbaya, also spelled Siti Nurbaya, is a 1922 Indonesian novel by Marah Rusli about two Minangkabau lovers whose marriage plans are destroyed by debt and forced marriage.

Sivagamiyin Sabatham

Sivagamiyin Sabatham (சிவகாமியின் சபதம், "Sivakami's Vow") is a Tamil historical novel by Kalki R. Krishnamurthy, serialised from 1944 to 1946 and set in the 7th-century Pallava kingdom of Kanchipuram.

Sivagnana Siddhiyar

Sivagnana Siddhiyar (சிவஞான சித்தியார்) is a 13th-century Tamil philosophical treatise of Śaiva Siddhānta by Aruḷnandi Śivācārya, the second of the fourteen Meykaṇḍa Śāstras and the principal elaboration of Meykaṇḍār's Śivajñānabodham.

Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder'

Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder' (干校六记, Ganxiao liu ji) is a 1981 memoir cycle by Chinese writer Yang Jiang recounting life at cadre schools during the Cultural Revolution.

Six Dynasties poetry

Six Dynasties poetry (六朝詩) is the Chinese verse written from roughly 220 to 589 CE, during the centuries of division between the Han and Sui dynasties.

Six Minutes to Midnight

Six Minutes to Midnight is a 2020 British spy thriller directed by Andy Goddard, starring Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench, inspired by the real Augusta-Victoria College, a Bexhill-on-Sea finishing school for daughters of the Nazi elite (1932-1939).

Six of Crows

Six of Crows (2015) is Leigh Bardugo's young adult fantasy heist novel, first of the Six of Crows duology with Crooked Kingdom (2016). Set in Ketterdam, Kerch, in the Grishaverse, it follows Kaz Brekker's crew of six outcasts on a heist to extract a scientist from Fjerda's Ice Court.

Six Records of a Floating Life

Six Records of a Floating Life (Fusheng liuji) is an autobiographical prose work by Qing dynasty writer Shen Fu, completed around 1808, recounting his marriage to Chen Yun and his travels.

Siyah Hashiye

Siyah Hashiye (سیاہ حاشیے, "Black Margins") is a 1948 collection of very short sketches by the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, depicting the violence of the 1947 Partition of India.

Siyar sha'biyya

Siyar sha'biyya (سيرة شعبية, popular epics) are anonymous Arabic narratives in prose and verse recounting the deeds of heroes and tribes, flourishing in the Mamluk period.

Siyer-i Nebi

Siyer-i Nebi is a Turkish prose-and-verse biography of the Prophet Muhammad, written in Cairo in 1388 by Mustafa Darir, best known through an illustrated Ottoman copy of 1594–1595 with 814 miniatures.

Skald

A skald (Old Norse skáld) was a court poet of medieval Scandinavia who composed formalized skaldic verse in Old Norse, praising rulers and commemorating battles from the ninth century onward.

Skeleton Knight in Another World

Skeleton Knight in Another World (骸骨騎士様、只今異世界へお出掛け中) is a Japanese isekai fantasy by Ennki Hakari about gamer Arc, trapped in his skeleton-knight MMO avatar, with manga, and a 2022/2026 two-season anime.

Sketches from a Casita

Sketches from a Casita (雅舍小品, Yashe Xiaopin) is a 1949 collection of short familiar essays by Liang Shiqiu, one of the most widely circulated works of modern Chinese prose.

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

Sketches from a Hunter's Album (Zapiski okhotnika) is a cycle of short stories by Ivan Turgenev, published in 1852 and known for its criticism of serfdom.

Skinny Dip (novel)

Skinny Dip (2004) is Carl Hiaasen's comic thriller in which marine biologist Chaz Perrone throws his wife Joey off a cruise ship; she survives, is rescued by ex-cop Mick Stranahan, and fakes her death for revenge over his Everglades pollution fraud.

Skipping Christmas

Skipping Christmas is John Grisham's 2001 Doubleday comic novel about Luther and Nora Krank, who skip Christmas for a Caribbean cruise; a #1 bestseller, it was adapted as the 2004 film Christmas with the Kranks starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Skírnismál

Skírnismál, also known as For Skírnis, is a 42-stanza mythological poem of the Poetic Edda in which Freyr sends Skírnir to woo the giantess Gerðr.

Skulduggery Pleasant

Skulduggery Pleasant is an urban fantasy novel series by Irish writer Derek Landy, beginning in 2007, about a wisecracking skeleton detective and his young partner Valkyrie Cain.

Sky Full of Elephants

Sky Full of Elephants is Cebo Campbell's 2024 debut speculative novel (Simon & Schuster), set after every white American drowns; professor Charlie Brunton drives his biracial daughter Sidney south to Mobile, Alabama, exploring Black identity, trauma, and healing.

Sky Wizards Academy (空戦魔導士候補生の教官)

Sky Wizards Academy (空戦魔導士候補生の教官) is a 14-volume Japanese light novel series by Yū Moroboshi and Mikihiro Amami (Fantasia Bunko, 2013–2017), adapted into a 12-episode 2015 Diomedéa anime about instructor Kanata Age training the failing E601 platoon.