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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson is Watkin Tench's 1793 firsthand account of the first four years of the British colony at Sydney.
A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind is a 1958 poetry collection by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a key work of the Beat Generation with roughly a million copies in print.
A Confederação dos Tamoios
A Confederação dos Tamoios is an 1856 epic poem by Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães depicting the Tamoios resistance to the Portuguese, a founding work of Brazilian Romanticism.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces is John Kennedy Toole's comic novel of Ignatius J. Reilly in 1960s New Orleans; published posthumously by LSU Press in 1980, it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Mark Twain's satirical time-travel novel in which engineer Hank Morgan is transported to 528 A.D. Camelot, passes as a magician, and modernizes Arthurian Britain, also published in Britain as A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
A Country Doctor's Notebook
A Country Doctor's Notebook (Zapiski yunogo vracha) is a cycle of seven linked stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, based on his rural medical service in Smolensk province from 1916.
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) is Sarah J. Maas's romantasy series begun in 2015, following Feyre Archeron in the Fae realm of Prythian; five Bloomsbury books with books six and seven, A Court of Splintered Harmony and A Court of Forgotten Melody, due October 2026 and January 2027.
A Creole Childhood
A Creole Childhood (French: Une enfance créole) is an autobiographical trilogy by the Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau, recounting his childhood and adolescence in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
A Cyborg Manifesto
A Cyborg Manifesto is Donna Haraway's 1985 Socialist Review essay, republished 1991, using the machine-organism hybrid cyborg to rethink socialist-feminist politics, critique the informatics of domination, and found cyberfeminism and posthumanism.
A Dance with Dragons
A Dance with Dragons, fifth novel of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, published 12 July 2011, 1,510 manuscript pages, ends with Jon Snow's apparent death; The Winds of Winter still unpublished.
A Dark Night's Passing
A Dark Night's Passing (An'ya kōrō, 暗夜行路) is the only full-length novel by Japanese writer Shiga Naoya, serialized in the magazine Kaizō from 1921 to 1937 and ranked among the foremost works of modern Japanese literature.
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, also called the Better Bundo Book, is a 2018 Chronicle Books picture book by Jill Twiss and EG Keller parodying the Pence family's Marlon Bundo book, depicting a same-sex bunny marriage, donating proceeds to The Trevor Project and AIDS United, and selling over 180,000 copies in two days.
A Defence of Poetry
A Defence of Poetry is an 1821 essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in reply to Thomas Love Peacock and defining poetry as the expression of the imagination.
A Difficult Young Man
A Difficult Young Man is a 1955 novel by the Australian writer Martin Boyd, the second of the Langton Quartet, narrated by Guy Langton about his reckless older brother Dominic.
A Discovery of Witches
A Discovery of Witches is Deborah Harkness's 2011 debut novel, first of the All Souls series, about witch-historian Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew Clairmont and the manuscript Ashmole 782 at Oxford's Bodleian Library; adapted into a 2018–2022 TV series.
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford is a 1975 poem by Northern Irish poet Derek Mahon, first published as the closing poem of The Snow Party.
A Dream Play
A Dream Play (Ett drömspel) is a 1901 expressionist drama by August Strindberg, first performed in 1907, following Indra's daughter as she observes human suffering on earth.
A Drop of Corruption
A Drop of Corruption is a 2025 fantasy murder mystery by American author Robert Jackson Bennett, a sequel to The Tainted Cup, published by Del Rey in April 2025.
A Dry White Season
A Dry White Season is a 1979 novel by South African author André Brink about an Afrikaner schoolteacher's investigation into a black gardener's death in police custody.
A Educação pela Pedra
A Educação pela Pedra (Education by Stone) is a 1966 book of poems by the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto, winner of the Prêmio Jabuti.
A Escrava Isaura
A Escrava Isaura (Isaura the Slave Girl) is an 1875 novel by Brazilian writer Bernardo Guimarães about an enslaved woman persecuted by her master Leôncio.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is Ernest Hemingway's third novel (1929, Scribner's), a WWI love story between American ambulance driver Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley, drawn from Hemingway's own 1918 Italian-front wounding and Agnes von Kurowsky romance.
A Feast for Crows
A Feast for Crows (2005) is the fourth novel in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, split geographically from A Dance with Dragons, covering King's Landing, Dorne, the Riverlands, and the Iron Islands, and debuting at #1 on the New York Times list.
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance (1995) is Rohinton Mistry's Booker-shortlisted second novel, set in mid-1970s India during the Emergency, following Dina Dalal, the tailors Ishvar and Omprakash Darji, and student Maneck Kohlah.
A Fool's Life
A Fool's Life (或阿呆の一生, Aru ahō no isshō) is a short autobiographical novel by the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, published posthumously in 1927 after his suicide.
A Fortunate Life
A Fortunate Life is the autobiography of Albert Barnett Facey, an Australian writer and First World War veteran, published in 1981 and recounting frontier hardship, Gallipoli, and Depression-era farming.
A Fringe of Leaves
A Fringe of Leaves is a 1976 novel by the Australian writer Patrick White, his tenth, about an English gentlewoman shipwrecked and held captive by Aborigines.
A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones is George R. R. Martin's 1996 novel, first of the planned seven-book A Song of Ice and Fire series, begun in 1991, set in Westeros, basis for HBO's Game of Thrones.
A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai
A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai (Japanese: Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Masuo Kinoko, adapted into a 12-episode anime in 2025.
A General History of the Pyrates
A General History of the Pyrates, also titled A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, is a 1724 book by the pseudonymous Captain Charles Johnson, often attributed to Daniel Defoe or Nathaniel Mist, covering Blackbeard, Roberts, Bonny, Read, and others.