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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin short story (1973, New Dimensions 3; Hugo Award 1974). Utopian city's happiness depends on one child's suffering; some citizens walk away. Subtitle: Variations on a Theme by William James.
The Only Good Indians
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones in which a vengeful elk spirit hunts four Blackfeet men.
The Opening of the Field
The Opening of the Field is a 1960 poetry collection by the American poet Robert Duncan, his breakthrough work, first published by Grove Press in New York.
The Oppermanns
The Oppermanns (Die Geschwister Oppermann) is a 1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger following a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin as Nazi persecution destroys their standing and business.
The Orange Tree
The Orange Tree is the title shared by several literary works, most prominently a 1994 novel by Carlos Fuentes and a 1921 Australian poem by John Shaw Neilson.
The Orenda
The Orenda is a 2013 historical novel by the Canadian writer Joseph Boyden, his third, told through three narrators, a Wendat warrior, an Iroquois captive girl, and a Jesuit missionary.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes's 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind argues consciousness arose recently from language, after a two-chambered 'bicameral' mentality commanded by hallucinated gods broke down.
The Orphan of Asia
The Orphan of Asia (亞細亞的孤兒) is an autobiographical novel by Taiwanese writer Wu Zhuoliu, written in secret between 1943 and 1945 during Japanese colonial rule.
The Orphan of Zhao
The Orphan of Zhao (赵氏孤儿) is a Yuan-dynasty Chinese play by Ji Junxiang about the survival and revenge of the last member of a slaughtered clan.
The Other Bennet Sister (novel)
The Other Bennet Sister is Janice Hadlow's 2020 debut novel reimagining Mary Bennet, the overlooked middle sister of Pride and Prejudice, later adapted into a 2026 BBC/BritBox miniseries starring Ella Bruccoleri.
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl is Philippa Gregory's 2001 historical novel narrated by Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne; a #1 bestseller adapted for BBC TV in 2003 and as a 2008 Hollywood film starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, but criticized by historians for fictionalized sister rivalry and a villainized Anne.
The Other Mexico
The Other Mexico is a 1968 book of essays by Octavio Paz, written after he resigned as ambassador to India in protest over the Tlatelolco massacre.
The Other Place
The Other Place, the English translation of the Arabic novel Baldah al-ukhrā by the Egyptian writer Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, was translated by Farouk Abdel Wahab and published in Cairo in 1997.
The Other Side of Midnight
The Other Side of Midnight is Sidney Sheldon's 1973 Morrow suspense novel of Noelle Page, pilot Larry Douglas, Catherine Alexander, and Greek tycoon Constantin Demiris, ending in a Greek murder trial; sequel Memories of Midnight, 1977 film.
The Other Side of Silence
The Other Side of Silence (Anderkant die stilte) is a 2002 novel by André Brink about Hanna X, a German woman abused in German South-West Africa who takes revenge.
The Other World
The Other World (L'Autre Monde) is a two-part prose fiction by the French writer Cyrano de Bergerac, recounting imaginary voyages to the Moon and the Sun that satirize seventeenth-century France.
The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter
The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter is a Japanese BL novel series by Wakatsu about an accountant swept into another world, adapted into manga and a 2026 anime.
The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival
The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival (Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival; 乙サバ) is a Japanese light novel by Harunohi Biyori: orphan Alicia learns she is an otome game's destined heroine, rejects that fate, and becomes the fighter Aria; adapted to manga and a July 2027 anime.
The Outsider (King novel)
The Outsider (2018) is a Stephen King horror novel published by Scribner, blending a police procedural with the supernatural: Oklahoma detective Ralph Anderson charges coach Terry Maitland with a child's murder despite an airtight alibi, solved by Holly Gibney from the Bill Hodges trilogy; adapted by HBO in 2020.
The Outsiders (novel)
The Outsiders (1967) is S.E. Hinton's debut novel about Ponyboy Curtis and the greaser-Soc class conflict; written in her teens, it founded realistic young adult fiction and sold over ten million copies.
The Overcoat (Шинель)
The Overcoat (Шинель) is Nikolai Gogol's 1842 St. Petersburg story of the copying clerk Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, whose stolen overcoat kills him and whose ghost takes coats in return; a founding text of Russian realism.
The Overstory
The Overstory, Richard Powers's twelfth novel (W.W. Norton, April 3, 2018), follows nine tree-touched Americans into the Pacific Northwest timber wars; structured Roots, Trunk, Crown, Seeds, it won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize.
The Owl and the Nightingale
The Owl and the Nightingale is a Middle English debate poem, 1,794 lines long, in which an owl and a nightingale argue over whose song is superior.
The Oxford Book of American Verse
The Oxford Book of American Verse is a 1950 anthology of American poetry edited by Harvard critic F. O. Matthiessen and published by Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Book of Australian Verse
The Oxford Book of Australian Verse is Oxford University Press's anthology of Australian poetry, begun in 1918 by Walter Murdoch and later edited by Judith Wright.
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is a 2005 anthology of Caribbean poetry edited by Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt and published by Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Oxford Book of English Verse is an anthology series of English poetry published by Oxford University Press since 1900, first edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets
The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets is a 1992 anthology of Indian poetry in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and published by Oxford University Press.
The Ozidi Saga
The Ozidi Saga is an oral epic of the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, performed over seven days, telling how the hero Ozidi avenges his murdered father.
The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird (Malowany ptak) is Jerzy Kosinski's controversial 1965 novel about a boy wandering WWII Eastern Europe, later exposed as largely fictional, adapted by Václav Marhoul in a 2019 black-and-white film.