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The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World
Saikyou Onmyouji no Isekai Tenseiki (最強陰陽師の異世界転生記), also The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, is Kiichi Kosuzu's isekai fantasy about onmyoji Haruyoshi Kugano reborn as Seika Lamprogue; web novel from 2018, Futabasha light novels and Okazaki manga, 2023 Studio Blanc anime.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's 2007 Booker-shortlisted novel, a dramatic monologue in which Pakistani Princeton graduate Changez recounts his post-9/11 disillusionment with America to an American stranger in a Lahore café; adapted by Mira Nair in 2013.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 third novel, winner of the Booker Prize, narrated by Stevens, an unreliable butler at Darlington Hall recalling his service to a Nazi-sympathizing lord and his repressed feelings for housekeeper Miss Kenton.
The Remarried Empress (재혼황후) (novel)
The Remarried Empress (재혼황후) is a South Korean romance-fantasy web novel by Alphatart, serialized on Naver Series from 2018, about an empress who remarries after divorce.
The Repeating Island
The Repeating Island (Spanish: La isla que se repite) is a 1989 essay by Cuban writer Antonio Benítez-Rojo that reinterprets Caribbean culture through chaos theory.
The Reptile Room
The Reptile Room is Book the Second of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), published by HarperCollins in 1999, in which the Baudelaire orphans live with herpetologist Uncle Monty while Count Olaf, disguised as Stephano, murders him.
The Republic of the Southern Cross
The Republic of the Southern Cross («Республика Южного Креста») is a 1905 short story by Valery Bryusov about an Antarctic state destroyed by an epidemic.
The Republic of Wine
The Republic of Wine (酒国) is a 1989 experimental novel by Nobel laureate Mo Yan, in which an investigator probes Liquor City officials' cannibalism through wine-soaked banquets.
The Repudiation
The Repudiation (La Répudiation, Arabic التطليق) is the first novel of Algerian writer Rachid Boudjedra, published in Paris in 1969, which broke Maghrebi political, religious, and sexual taboos and led to its author's exile.
The Rest of Our Lives
The Rest of Our Lives is Ben Markovits's twelfth novel, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, following law professor Tom Layward on a cross-country road trip after dropping his daughter at college.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) is Douglas Adams's second Hitchhiker's Guide novel, adapting radio fits 7-12, 5, 6; it features Milliways, the time-traveling restaurant at the end of time, and the Golgafrincham ark.
The Return of Consciousness
The Return of Consciousness (عودة الوعي) is a 1974 book of political essays by Tawfiq al-Hakim, criticizing Nasser's rule after twenty years of the author's public silence.
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
The Return of Philip Latinowicz (Povratak Filipa Latinovicza) is a 1932 novel by Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, following a painter who returns to his native town after 23 years abroad.
The Return of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣)
The Return of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣, Shendiao Xialv) is Jin Yong's 1959–1961 wuxia novel, second of the Condor Trilogy, following Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü's forbidden love during the Mongol invasion of Southern Song.
The Return of the King
The Return of the King is the third and final 1955 volume of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, containing Books V and VI plus the appendices; also Peter Jackson's 2003 New Line Cinema film adaptation.
The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth novel (1878), serialized in Belgravia and set on Egdon Heath; also a 2007 Rebecca Earle history of Indians in Spanish American nation-making.
The Return of the Spirit
The Return of the Spirit (عودة الروح) is a 1933 novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, portraying a Cairo household during the 1919 Revolution and considered a founding work of the Arabic realistic novel.
The Revelations of St Birgitta
The Revelations of St Birgitta (Liber celestis revelationum), the collected visions of Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373), dictated in Swedish and edited into books by Alfonso of Jaén, translated across Europe, with the Revelationes Extravagantes as supplementary material.
The Revenant (novel)
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge is Michael Punke's 2002 historical novel about frontiersman Hugh Glass, mauled by a grizzly and left for dead, adapted into the 2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
The Revenge of the Snakes
The Revenge of the Snakes (Turkish: Yılanların Öcü) is a Turkish social realist village novel by Fakir Baykurt, serialized in 1958 and published as a book in 1959.
The Revenger's Tragedy
The Revenger's Tragedy is a Jacobean revenge tragedy first printed in 1607, now attributed to Thomas Middleton, following the avenger Vindice in an Italian court.
The Revolt of the Elites
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is Christopher Lasch's posthumous 1995 Norton essay collection, reversing Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses; it argues American democracy is betrayed by professional-managerial elites, later influential on Bannon and MAGA populism.
The Rhymes of Li Youcai
The Rhymes of Li Youcai is a 1943 novella by the Chinese writer Zhao Shuli, in which the peasant Li Youcai's rhymed verse helps villagers fight a landlord.
The Rider on the White Horse
The Rider on the White Horse (Der Schimmelreiter) is an 1888 ghostly novella by Theodor Storm, his last and best known, set on the North Frisian coast.
The Riftwar Cycle
The Riftwar Cycle is Raymond E. Feist's epic-fantasy series of about 31 novels (1982-2013) set on Midkemia and Kelewan, opening with Magician and ending with Magician's End, rooted in a UCSD roleplaying campaign.
The Right Hand of the Grand Master
The Right Hand of the Grand Master (დიდოსტატის მარჯვენა) is a 1939 historical novel by Georgian writer Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, built on the legend of Svetitskhoveli Cathedral.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge's longest major poem (1797–98), opens Lyrical Ballads (1798). A mariner kills an albatross, is cursed, and must retell his tale; revised through the 1834 text.
The Ring and the Book
The Ring and the Book is a 22,021-line narrative poem by Robert Browning, published 1868 to 1869, retelling a 1698 Roman murder trial in dramatic monologues.
The Ring of the Dove
The Ring of the Dove (Ṭawq al-ḥamāma) is an Arabic treatise on love written in 1022 by the Andalusi scholar Ibn Ḥazm, analyzing love through anecdotes and Arabic poetry.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a 2018 popular science book by paleontologist Steve Brusatte tracing dinosaurs from their origins to the end-Cretaceous extinction.