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Suluk Malang Sumirang

Suluk Malang Sumirang is a Javanese Islamic mystical text (suluk) attributed to Pangeran Panggung, dated to around the 16th century and counted among the most important works of the Javanese Islamic literary period.

Suluk Wujil

Suluk Wujil is an early Javanese Islamic mystical poem attributed to Sunan Bonang, inscribed at Cirebon, West Java, in 1607 and among the earliest works of the Javanese suluk genre.

Suma y narración de los Incas

Suma y narración de los Incas is a chronicle of Inca history written in Cuzco around 1551 by Juan de Betanzos, drawing largely on the Inca point of view.

Sumati Satakamu

Sumati Satakamu (సుమతీ శతకము) is a Telugu collection of 108 moral verses, each ending with the word "Sumati", traditionally attributed to the 13th-century poet-king Baddena.

Sumidawara

Sumidawara (炭俵, "A Sack of Charcoal") is a 1694 Japanese haikai anthology compiled by Bashō-school poets Shida Yaba, Koizumi Kōku, and Ikeda Rigyū, sixth of the Bashō Seven Major Anthologies.

Summary of Decameron tales

Summary of Decameron tales: day-by-day overview of Boccaccio's Decameron (Decameròn, Prencipe Galeotto), 100 novelle told over ten days by seven women and three men fleeing the 1348 plague, with day themes and famous tales.

Summer Flowers

Summer Flowers (Natsu no hana, 夏の花) is a 1947 short story by Japanese writer Hara Tamiki, recording his experience of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Summer in Calcutta

Summer in Calcutta is the first collection of poetry in English by the Indian writer Kamala Das, published in New Delhi in 1965, containing fifty poems.

Summoning to the Bier

Summoning to the Bier (Tetemre hívás) is an 1877 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany, built on the old legal custom of summoning suspects to a corpse.

Summons of the Soul

Summons of the Soul (Zhaohun) is a poem in the ancient Chinese Chu Ci anthology that imitates the rite of calling a wandering soul home.

Sumnima

Sumnima (सुम्निमा) is a 1970 Nepali-language novel by Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Nepal's first elected prime minister, following a Brahmin youth and a Kirat woman whose conflicting worldviews drive the story.

Sun and Steel

Sun and Steel is an autobiographical essay by Yukio Mishima, serialized from 1965 and published as a book in 1968, that explores words, the body, and death.

Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian

Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian is a 1942 book telling the life story of the Hopi chief Don C. Talayesva, edited by Yale anthropologist Leo W. Simmons.

Sunehade

Sunehade ("Messages") is a 1955 Punjabi poetry anthology by Amrita Pritam, dominated by love poetry, that won her the Sahitya Akademi Award of India for 1956.

Sunset Oasis

Sunset Oasis (Wahat al-Ghuroub) is a 2007 historical novel by Bahaa Taher set in Siwa Oasis under British rule, winner of the first International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a 1912 collection of twelve humorous sketches by the Canadian writer Stephen Leacock, portraying life in the fictional small town of Mariposa.

Sunya Samhita

Sunya Samhita is an Odia devotional and philosophical text attributed to the sixteenth-century saint-poet Achyutananda Das of the Panchasakha, teaching worship of the formless Almighty.

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo (超巡!超条先輩, Chōjun! Chōjō-senpai) is a Shun Numa gag manga serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump 2024-2025, 65 chapters, 8 volumes, about psychic slacker cop Meguru Chojo and rookie Nao Ippongi, with a 2026 Arvo Animation anime.

Superfluous man

The superfluous man (лишний человек) is a character type in Russian literature, typical of the 1820s to 1850s: an educated, alienated nobleman marked by skepticism and social passivity.

Superhero

A superhero is a fictional character with extraordinary abilities who pursues justice, often through vigilante action. The genre began with Superman in Action Comics #1 in 1938.

Superhero fiction

Superhero fiction is a speculative-fiction genre of extraordinary-ability heroes defined by mission, powers, and identity, crystallized in comics with Superman's 1938 Action Comics debut, later deconstructed by Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and now spanning film, TV, games, and prose.

Superman: Red Son

Superman: Red Son is a 2003 three-issue DC Elseworlds miniseries by Mark Millar with Dave Johnson and Kilian Plunkett, imagining Kal-El's rocket landing in Soviet Ukraine; adapted as a 2020 animated film directed by Sam Liu starring Jason Isaacs.

Superman/Batman

Superman/Batman: DC Comics monthly team-up series (2003–2011), successor to World's Finest Comics, launched by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness; known for Public Enemies, The Supergirl from Krypton, and two animated film adaptations.

Superman/Spider-Man and Spider-Man/Superman

Superman/Spider-Man (DC) and Spider-Man/Superman (Marvel) are 2026 anthology one-shots pairing the two heroes, marking the 50th anniversary of 1976's Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man, the first DC/Marvel superhero crossover, with lead stories by Waid/Jiménez and Meltzer/Larraz.

Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction, also called paranormal or occult fiction, is fantastic literature built on suspension of reality, arising 1762–1800 from Gothic novels like The Castle of Otranto, spanning Walpole, Poe, Jackson, and King, distinct from but overlapping horror, fantasy, and the Gothic.

Supervillain

Supervillain: a fictional antagonist with extraordinary powers or intellect opposing a superhero in comics and film. Key facts: Ultra-Humanite first comics supervillain (1939); Moriarty prototype (1891); five archetypes; central to the genre.

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town (Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen...) is a Japanese fantasy comedy light novel by Toshio Satou and Nao Watanuki about oblivious strong boy Lloyd Belladonna, adapted into manga and a 2021 Liden Films anime.

Suraj ka Satvan Ghoda

Suraj ka Satvan Ghoda (सूरज का सातवाँ घोड़ा; The Sun's Seventh Horse) is a 1952 Hindi novella by Dharamvir Bharati, a landmark of experimental Hindi fiction.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985, W. W. Norton) is Richard Feynman's anecdotal memoir, edited by Ralph Leighton from taped conversations, a surprise bestseller with sequel What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Surfacing

Surfacing is Margaret Atwood's second novel, published in 1972, about an unnamed artist whose search for her missing father in northern Quebec becomes a psychological breakdown.