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The Cuckoo's Egg (book)
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is Clifford Stoll's 1989 Doubleday book on his 1986 hunt for a West German hacker selling U.S. military data to the KGB.
The Culture
The Culture is the pan-galactic post-scarcity utopian civilization in Iain M. Banks's ten science fiction novels (1987-2012), run by AI Minds on anarchistic, moneyless principles, known for interventionism themes and influence on Musk and SpaceX.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 satirical fantasy short story from Collier's and Tales of the Jazz Age, about a man born in 1860 as a seventy-year-old who ages in reverse; basis of David Fincher's 2008 film.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon's 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old autistic narrator, investigates a neighbor's dog's death. Won the Whitbread Book of the Year; Simon Stephens' adaptation won the 2015 Tony for Best Play. Autism is never named in the text.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play): Simon Stephens's 2012 National Theatre adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel about autistic teen Christopher Boone; seven Oliviers, five Tonys, and later accessibility-focused stagings.
The Czech Question
The Czech Question (Česká otázka) is an 1895 book by Czech philosopher and politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, arguing that the meaning of Czech history is humanity.
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is Dan Brown's 2003 thriller, the second Robert Langdon novel, in which a Louvre murder launches a Grail hunt recasting Jesus's bloodline through Mary Magdalene; it sold tens of millions of copies, drew scholarly debunking of its "FACT" claims, and survived a 2006-2007 copyright suit.
The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World
The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World is a Japanese isekai series about a man who uses an online shopping site to connect his fantasy world to modern Japan.
The Daily Life of a Part-time Torturer
Gōmon Baito-kun no Nichijō (The Daily Life of a Part-time Torturer), a four-panel dark-comedy manga by Yawora Tsugumi serialized on Young Animal Web since December 18, 2022, set in a legalized-torture world where Spirytus Inc. part-timers Sero, Shiu, Mikke, and Hugh work; adapted into a 12-episode Diomedéa anime aired January-March 2026.
The Daily Life of the Immortal King (仙王的日常生活)
The Daily Life of the Immortal King (仙王的日常生活) is Ku Xuan's 2017 Qidian comedy web novel about overpowered student Wang Ling, adapted by Bilibili and Haoliners into a five-season donghua marked by a Saiki K. plagiarism controversy.
The Damned Yard
The Damned Yard (Prokleta avlija) is a 1954 short novel by Ivo Andrić, winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize, set in an Istanbul prison in the last years of the Ottoman Empire.
The Dance of the Eunuchs
The Dance of the Eunuchs is a poem by Kamala Das that opens Summer in Calcutta (1965), depicting eunuchs dancing to celebrate births they can never have.
The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl is David Ebershoff's 2000 debut novel, loosely based on Danish painter Lili Elbe (born Einar Wegener), one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery, adapted into Tom Hooper's 2015 film with Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, both criticized for historical inaccuracies.
The Danton Case
The Danton Case (Polish: Sprawa Dantona) is a five-act 1929 drama by Polish writer Stanisława Przybyszewska on the conflict between Danton and Robespierre in the French Revolution.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze is a 1934 short story collection by Armenian American writer William Saroyan, whose title story won the O. Henry Award.
The Dark Child
The African Child, also known as The Dark Child, is the English title of L'enfant noir, a 1953 autobiographical novel by the Guinean writer Camara Laye.
The Dark Elf Trilogy
The Dark Elf Trilogy is R.A. Salvatore's three-novel Drizzt Do'Urden origin series, Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn (1990-1991), set in Menzoberranzan and the Underdark, chronologically first but published after the Icewind Dale Trilogy.
The Dark Forest (黑暗森林)
The Dark Forest (黑暗森林) is Liu Cixin's 2008 novel, second in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, in which Luo Ji deduces the dark forest theory of cosmic sociology and builds deterrence against Trisolaris; English translation by Joel Martinsen, Tor, 2015.
The Dark Half
The Dark Half (1989) is Stephen King's horror novel about novelist Thad Beaumont, whose pseudonym George Stark comes to life; written after King's Richard Bachman pseudonym was exposed, adapted by George A. Romero in 1993.
The Dark Is Rising Sequence
The Dark Is Rising Sequence is Susan Cooper's five-book children's fantasy sequence (1965–1977): Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree, pitting Light against Dark through Arthurian and Welsh myth, with a 1974 Newbery Honor and 1976 Newbery Medal.
The Dark Knight III: The Master Race
The Dark Knight III: The Master Race is a nine-issue Batman comic book limited series written by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello, published by DC Comics from 2015 to 2017.
The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Returns: 1986 four-issue DC Comics Batman miniseries by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley; retired 55-year-old Bruce Wayne returns, fights the Joker and Superman, and redefined adult superhero comics.
The Dark Phoenix Saga
The Dark Phoenix Saga is the 1980 Uncanny X-Men #129-138 storyline by Chris Claremont and John Byrne in which Jean Grey, as Dark Phoenix, is corrupted, destroys the D'Bari, and dies on the moon; later retconned and twice adapted unsuccessfully to film.
The Dark Tower (2017 film)
The Dark Tower is a 2017 American science fiction fantasy Western film directed by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Taylor, based on Stephen King's novel series.
The Dark Tower (comics)
The Dark Tower (comics) is a Marvel Comics series (2007–2017) adapting Stephen King's novels. It started as a prequel exploring the origins of Roland Deschain.
The Dark Tower (series)
The Dark Tower (series): Stephen King's eight-novel epic (1982-2012) following gunslinger Roland Deschain's quest for the Tower, the nexus of King's multiverse; also the basis of the 2017 film and Mike Flanagan's planned TV adaptation.
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three is a 1987 dark fantasy-Western novel by Stephen King, where Roland draws Eddie Dean and Odetta Holmes out of New York.
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands is Stephen King's 1991 third Dark Tower novel, in which Roland's ka-tet reforms, crosses Mid-World's waste lands and Lud, and meets Blaine the Mono.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass is Stephen King's 1997 fourth Dark Tower novel, published by Donald M. Grant and illustrated by Dave McKean. After Blaine the Mono, Roland's ka-tet reaches a superflu-ravaged Topeka, Kansas, and Roland recounts his youth in Hambry, his love Susan Delgado, and Maerlyn's Grapefruit.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower V) is Stephen King's fifth Dark Tower novel, published November 4, 2003 by Donald M. Grant and Scribner, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, in which Roland's ka-tet defends Calla Bryn Sturgis from child-stealing Wolves.