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The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (Otonari no Tenshi-sama) is a Japanese romance light novel by Saekisan, illustrated by Hanekoto, GA Bunko 2019; web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō since December 2018; anime by project No.9, seasons 2023 and 2026; Yen Press English; Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi 2024 five-crown winner.
The Answer
"The Answer" (回答) is a poem by the Chinese poet Bei Dao, first published in the inaugural 1978 issue of Today and reprinted by the journal Poetry in 1979.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper (Perry Index 373, ATU 280A) is Aesop's fable of the industrious ant and the singing cicada-turned-grasshopper who starves in winter; retold by Caxton, La Fontaine, Bierce, Maugham, and the Morrisons.
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory is the Nobel Lecture delivered by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott in Stockholm in December 1992, after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Antiquary
The Antiquary is an 1816 novel by Sir Walter Scott, the third of the Waverley Novels, set on Scotland's east coast in 1794 and his personal favorite.
The Apollo Murders
The Apollo Murders is Chris Hadfield's 2021 debut novel, an alternate-history technothriller in which a secret 1973 Apollo 18 mission, funded by the Defense Department, targets the Soviet Almaz spy station, featuring Kaz Zemeckis, a murder, and a Russian mole.
The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと)
The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) is Hyuganatsu's Japanese mystery light novel series about apothecary Maomao solving rear palace mysteries in the fictional China-inspired empire Ryū; adapted into two manga and an anime.
The Appointment
The Appointment is the title of two unrelated novels: Katharina Volckmer's 2020 monologue debut and Herta Müller's 1997 novel about a tram ride to a secret-police interrogation.
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (El acercamiento a Almotásim) is Borges's 1935 fake book review of a nonexistent Bombay detective novel by Mir Bahadur Ali, first printed in Historia de la eternidad (1936) and later collected in Ficciones.
The Argumentative Indian
The Argumentative Indian is a 2005 essay collection by the Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen arguing that India's long tradition of public argument shapes its history and democracy.
The Armies of the Night
The Armies of the Night is a 1968 nonfiction book by Norman Mailer about the 1967 March on the Pentagon, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The Armour of Light
The Armour of Light (US: The Armor of Light) is Ken Follett's 2023 fifth Kingsbridge novel, set 1792-1824 during the Industrial Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, following Sal Clitheroe, Kit, and Amos Barrowfield in Kingsbridge.
The Arrivants
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy is a 1973 collected volume of poetry by Barbadian writer Kamau Brathwaite, containing Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain is Garth Stein's 2008 Harper novel narrated by Enzo, a dog hoping to be reborn as a man, telling race car driver Denny Swift's story; a New York Times bestseller for 156 weeks, adapted into a 2019 film.
The Art of the Novel
The Art of the Novel (L'Art du roman) is a 1986 book of essays on the novel by Milan Kundera, his first major work written directly in French.
The Artamonov Business
The Artamonov Business (Delo Artamonovykh) is a 1925 novel by Maxim Gorky that follows three generations of a Russian merchant family and their textile factory.
The Artificial Silk Girl
The Artificial Silk Girl is the English title of Das kunstseidene Mädchen, a 1932 novel by German writer Irmgard Keun about a young woman's pursuit of glamour in Berlin.
The Artists
The Artists (German: Die Künstler) is a long didactic poem by Friedrich Schiller, composed and published in 1789, presenting a history of the arts and arguing for the poets' civilizing mission.
The Assemblies of al-Hariri
The Assemblies of al-Hariri (Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī) is a collection of fifty rhymed Arabic prose tales by al-Hariri, a philologist born near Basra, written between 1101 and 1110.
The Asterisk War (学戦都市アスタリスク)
The Asterisk War (学戦都市アスタリスク, Gakusen Toshi Asterisk) is a Yuu Miyazaki light novel series, illustrated by Okiura, about Genestella students battling in the Rokka academy city's Seibusai tournament; 17 volumes, a 2015-2016 two-season anime, and a five-volume manga.
The Atom Station
The Atom Station (Atómstöðin) is a 1948 satirical novel by Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness about Iceland letting the United States build a base at Keflavík.
The Atrocity Exhibition
The Atrocity Exhibition: J.G. Ballard's 1970 experimental novel of fifteen condensed, headline-titled texts (Cape, London), pulped by Doubleday in the US and reissued as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A., later annotated by Ballard for RE/Search in 1990.
The Austere Academy
The Austere Academy, book 5 of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), HarperCollins 2000: the Baudelaires attend Prufrock Prep, meet the Quagmire triplets, and first hear V.F.D.
The Authority (comics)
The Authority: WildStorm/DC superhero comic created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch (1999), spun off StormWatch; widescreen, decompressed Anti-Justice League featuring the gay couple Apollo and Midnighter.
The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave
The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave, the English title of Biografía de un cimarrón, is a 1966 Cuban testimonial narrative recounting the life of Esteban Montejo.
The Autobiography of a Slave
The Autobiography of a Slave (Autobiografía de un esclavo) is an 1835 slave autobiography by Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano, the only known such account by an enslaved person in Latin America.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein's 1933 memoir published by Harcourt, Brace, written in the voice of her companion Alice B. Toklas; Stein's only bestseller, chronicling the Paris avant-garde and prompting her 1934–35 American tour.
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is a 1951 autobiography by the Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri, recording his first twenty-four years in provincial Bengal and Calcutta.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is Franklin's unfinished memoir, written in four parts between 1771 and 1790, tracing his rise from Boston apprentice to Philadelphia printer.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (La Vita di Benvenuto Cellini) is the memoir of the Florentine goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, dictated between 1558 and 1566 and first printed in 1728.