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The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (Fukuō Jiden, 福翁自伝) is the autobiography of Japanese educator Fukuzawa Yukichi, dictated in 1897 and published in 1899 by Jiji Shinpōsha.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965, Grove Press), as told to Alex Haley, a posthumous classic of African American autobiography; six million copies by 1977, Anisfield-Wolf Award 1966, basis of Spike Lee's 1992 film.
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats is the prose record of his life by the Irish poet, written over four decades and collected as Autobiographies in 1926.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch (El otoño del patriarca) is a 1975 novel by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez about the decline and death of a Caribbean dictator.
The Avengers (comic book)
The Avengers (comic book): Marvel Comics superhero team title, debut September 1963 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, "Earth's Mightiest Heroes"; 402-issue original run, Kree/Skrull War and Korvac Saga landmarks, repeated relaunches through 2026.
The Awakened Land
The Awakened Land (Oyangan olke) is a 1953 two-book novel-epopee by Kazakh writer Gabit Musirepov, depicting the Kazakh steppe from the late 19th century to the October Revolution.
The Awakening (Chopin novel)
The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin: an American novel set on Grand Isle and in New Orleans, following Edna Pontellier's sexual and individual awakening ending in suicide; condemned in 1899, rediscovered in the 1960s, now an early feminist classic.
The Ax (novel)
The Ax is a 1997 Donald E. Westlake thriller in which laid-off paper-mill manager Burke Devore murders his job competitors; filmed as Costa-Gavras's Le couperet (2005).
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Baby-Sitters Club: Ann M. Martin's children's book series launched by Scholastic in 1986 with Kristy's Great Idea, about middle school girls running a baby-sitting business in Stoneybrook, Connecticut; over 200 million copies in print, with TV, film, and graphic novel adaptations and a 2027 stage musical.
The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning (1999) by Lemony Snicket, pen name of Daniel Handler, is book one of A Series of Unfortunate Events: Baudelaire orphans versus Count Olaf's marriage scheme, illustrated by Brett Helquist, HarperCollins.
The Bad Guys (book series)
The Bad Guys is a 20-book children's graphic novel series (2015-2024) by Australian author-illustrator Aaron Blabey, published by Scholastic, about Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, and Mr. Shark trying to be good; adapted by DreamWorks in 2022.
The Ballad of Canal Town
The Ballad of Canal Town (Danao Jishi, 大淖记事) is a 1981 short story by the Chinese writer Wang Zengqi that won the National Outstanding Short Story Award.
The Ballad of Changgan
The Ballad of Changgan (长干行, Chánggān xíng) is a two-part Tang dynasty yuefu poem attributed to Li Bai, spoken in the voice of a merchant's wife in Nanjing.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a 109-stanza poem by Oscar Wilde, published in 1898 under his prison cell number C.3.3., recounting a fellow prisoner's execution.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is Suzanne Collins's 2020 Hunger Games prequel novel, set 64 years before the trilogy during the 10th Hunger Games, following 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow and tribute Lucy Gray Baird; adapted into a 2023 film starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.
The Ballad of the Outer Life
"The Ballad of the Outer Life" (German: Ballade des äusseren Lebens) is an 1894 poem by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal, a celebrated work of Viennese Symbolism written in terzains.
The Bamboo Stalk
The Bamboo Stalk (ساق البامبو) is a 2012 novel by the Kuwaiti writer Saud Alsanousi about a young man of mixed Filipino and Kuwaiti parentage seeking his identity.
The Banquet Bug
The Banquet Bug (赴宴者) is a 2006 satirical novel by Chinese-American writer Geling Yan about a laid-off Beijing worker who poses as a journalist for banquets.
The Banquet in Blitva
The Banquet in Blitva (Banket u Blitvi) is a three-book political novel by Miroslav Krleža set in the fictional states of Blitva and Blatvija after World War I.
The Barbarian's Bride
The Barbarian's Bride (Himekishi wa Barbaroi no Yome, 姫騎士は蛮族の嫁), also known as The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King, is a Kodansha shōnen manga by Noriaki Kotoba about captured knight Serafina de Lavillant and barbarian heir Veor; Seven Seas publishes it in English and a Jumondou TV anime aired from April 2026. Distinct from the Korean novel I Became a Barbarian's Bride.
The Bards of Wales
The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok) is an 1857 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany retelling the legend that Edward I burned 500 Welsh bards for refusing to praise him.
The Baron in the Trees
The Baron in the Trees (Il barone rampante) is a 1957 novel by Italo Calvino about Cosimo, a nobleman who lives his whole life in the trees.
The Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is Neal Stephenson's historical trilogy, Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World (2003-2004), set in the late 17th and early 18th century. It grew out of Cryptonomicon, follows Daniel Waterhouse, Jack Shaftoe, and Eliza, and won the Clarke and Locus Awards.
The Batman Adventures
The Batman Adventures was DC's 1992-1995 monthly comic tie-in to Batman: The Animated Series, with self-contained all-ages stories by Kelley Puckett, Mike Parobeck, and Ty Templeton, Harley Quinn's comics debut in #12, and the Eisner-winning Mad Love special.
The Battle of Maldon
The Battle of Maldon was an Anglo-Saxon defeat by Viking raiders at Maldon, Essex, in August 991, led by Ealdorman Byrhtnoth under Æthelred II, and a surviving Old English poem celebrating it.
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Battle of the Labyrinth, also Percy Jackson Book 4, is Rick Riordan's 2008 Hyperion fantasy novel in which Annabeth leads a quest through Daedalus's Labyrinth against Kronos's invasion of Camp Half-Blood.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a short story collection by Stephen King, published in 2015, with each story introduced by a note on its origins.
The Beach (novel)
The Beach (1996) is Alex Garland's debut novel about backpacker Richard, who follows a dead man's map to a hidden Thai island utopia that turns violent; adapted by Danny Boyle in 2000 with Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Bear and the Dragon
The Bear and the Dragon is Tom Clancy's 2000 Ryanverse thriller (Putnam, 1,028 pp) in which President Jack Ryan, with John Clark and Ding Chavez, confronts a Chinese invasion of Siberia for oil and gold, ending at the brink of nuclear war.
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel (1922), chronicling Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert's decline through idleness, alcoholism, and a contested inheritance in Jazz Age New York; serialized in Metropolitan, published by Scribners, and less praised than This Side of Paradise.