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Astronomica
The Astronomica is a Latin didactic poem in five books by Manilius, teaching astrology; the earliest surviving explicitly astrological work, dated to the early first century CE.
Astrophil and Stella
Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney, 108 sonnets and eleven songs composed in the early 1580s and first printed in 1591.
Asuravithu
Asuravithu (അസുരവിത്ത്) is a 1962 Malayalam novel by M. T. Vasudevan Nair, translated as The Demon Seed, about a young Nair man's break from his crumbling matrilineal joint family.
Asya
Asya (Ася) is an 1858 novella by Ivan Turgenev, set in a small German town on the Rhine, where a young Russian narrator fails to propose to the illegitimate Asya in time.
At Fifteen I Went to War
At Fifteen I Went to War (Shiwu congjun zheng) is an anonymous Han yuefu folk poem about a soldier who leaves home at fifteen and returns at eighty.
At Kinosaki
At Kinosaki (城の崎にて, Kinosaki nite) is a 1917 short story by Shiga Naoya based on his own convalescence, where the narrator concludes that life and death are not opposites.
At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 experimental novel by the Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, published as Flann O'Brien, in which a student's fictional characters revolt against their author.
At the End of September
At the End of September (Szeptember végén) is an 1847 elegy by Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, written for his wife Szendrey Júlia during their honeymoon at Koltó.
At the Top of My Voice
"At the Top of My Voice" (Vo ves' golos) is Vladimir Mayakovsky's last long poem, published in 1930 as a defense of his work addressed to future generations.
Atashkada
Atashkada (آتشکده) is a Persian tazkira, a biographical anthology of poets compiled by Lutf Ali Beg Azar and completed in 1760, covering about 842 Persian-speaking poets.
Atebetü'l-Hakayık
Atebetü'l-Hakayık ("the threshold of truths") is a 12th-century didactic poem on ethics and religious advice, written in Karakhanid Turkish by Edib Ahmed Yüknekî.
Atheis
Atheis is a 1949 Indonesian novel by Achdiat Karta Mihardja, published by Balai Pustaka, following a devout young man whose faith collapses after encountering secular, revolutionary ideas.
Atlakviða
Atlakviða, "The Lay of Atli", is a heroic poem of the Poetic Edda, preserved in the Codex Regius, in which Guðrún avenges her brothers on Atli.
Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος)
Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος), the fictional island empire of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, an allegory of ideal Athens defeating hubris, not a real lost civilization; source of over 20,000 books.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged (French title La Grève) is Ayn Rand's 1957, 1,168-page novel of a "strike of the mind" led by John Galt, dramatizing Objectivism and laissez-faire capitalism; panned in 1957, it later sold over 10 million US copies.
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City (地圖集) is a 1997 novel by Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung, part of the V City series, in which future archaeologists reconstruct the fictional City of Victoria from maps; translated to English by Columbia UP in 2012.
Atmajayi
Atmajayi (आत्मजयी) is a 1965 Hindi khandakavya, an extended narrative poem, by the leading Nayi Kavita poet Kunwar Narayan, retelling the Nachiketa episode of the Katha Upanishad.
Atmosphere (novel)
Atmosphere: A Love Story is Taylor Jenkins Reid's ninth novel (Ballantine, June 3, 2025), a 1980s NASA space-shuttle thriller about astronauts Joan Goodwin and Vanessa Ford's secret romance, a New York Times bestseller being adapted by Laika.
Atonement (novel)
Atonement is a 2001 novel by Ian McEwan about Briony Tallis, who as a girl falsely accuses her sister's lover of a crime and seeks atonement through writing.
Atta Troll
Atta Troll is a satirical verse epic by Heinrich Heine about a dancing bear whose escape becomes a vehicle for political and literary satire, begun in 1841.
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (進撃の巨人 Before the Fall)
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (進撃の巨人 Before the fall) is a prequel light novel trilogy by Ryo Suzukaze and a 17-volume manga by Satoshi Shiki, set 70 years before the main manga and telling the origin of the Vertical Maneuvering Equipment through Kuklo, the 'Titan's son'.
Attack on Titan: Junior High (進撃！巨人中学校)
Attack on Titan: Junior High (進撃！巨人中学校) is Saki Nakagawa's official chibi comedy parody manga of Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan, serialized 2012–2016 in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine and adapted into a 12-episode Production I.G anime in 2015, set at a school where humans and titans study together.
Attack on Titan: Lost Girls (進撃の巨人 Lost Girls)
Attack on Titan: Lost Girls (進撃の巨人 Lost Girls) is a spin-off novel by Hiroshi Seko, adapted into a two-volume manga by Ryosuke Fuji, following Annie Leonhart and Mikasa Ackerman in side stories set around the 57th Expedition; a two-episode OVA adapted the Annie and Mikasa stories.
Attakatha
Attakatha (ആട്ടക്കഥ), meaning "enacted story", is the literary text written for performance in Kathakali, the classical dance-drama of Kerala, composed in Manipravalam; Unnayi Warrier's Nalacharitam is its finest example.
Attic Nights
Attic Nights (Latin Noctes Atticae) is a learned miscellany in twenty books by the Roman author Aulus Gellius, covering language, literature, history, law, and philosophy.
Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch is the fictional Maycomb, Alabama, lawyer and father in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), modeled on her father A.C. Lee, later recast as a segregationist in Go Set a Watchman (2015).
Aubade
"Aubade" is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin on the fear of death, completed in 1977 and generally regarded as his last major poem.
Aubrey–Maturin series
The Aubrey–Maturin series, also called the Aubrey/Maturin novels, is Patrick O'Brian's 20-novel Napoleonic-era naval sequence (1969–1999) plus an unfinished 21st (2004), following Captain Jack Aubrey and surgeon-spy Stephen Maturin, adapted as the 2003 film Master and Commander.
Aucassin and Nicolette
Aucassin and Nicolette (Aucassin et Nicolette) is an anonymous Old French chantefable of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, alternating sung verse with spoken prose, telling of lovers Aucassin and Nicolette.
Audition (Kitamura novel)
Audition (2025) is Katie Kitamura's fifth novel, about an unnamed middle-aged actress whose encounter with a young man, Xavier, who claims to be her son, destabilizes her marriage to Tomas. Told in two reimagined parts, it was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and is a Pulitzer Prize finalist.