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Batman: Year Two
Batman: Year Two is a four-part 1987 Detective Comics #575-578 storyline by Mike W. Barr, with art by Alan Davis and Todd McFarlane, a sequel to Batman: Year One featuring the Reaper and Joe Chill, later de-canonized.
Batrachomyomachia
Batrachomyomachia, also known by the alternate title Batrachomachia, is an ancient Greek mock-epic poem of about 300 verses describing a war between frogs and mice in Homeric style.
Battalname
Battalname is an anonymous Anatolian Turkish prose folk epic about Seyyid Battal Gazi, an Arab commander against Byzantium, generally dated between the late 11th and early 13th centuries.
Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle (銃夢火星戦記)
Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle (銃夢火星戦記, Gunnm: Mars Chronicle) is Yukito Kishiro's third Gunnm manga, launched April 2014 as the sequel to Last Order, intercutting adult Alita's ES 594 return to Mars with Yoko's ES 373 childhood in 11 Kodansha volumes.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is Amy Chua's 2011 Yale professor memoir on strict "tiger parenting" of daughters Sophia and Lulu; a 30-language bestseller that sparked abuse and effectiveness debates.
Battle of Helm's Deep
Battle of Helm's Deep (Battle of the Hornburg): fictional battle in Tolkien's The Two Towers, chapter 7 of Book III, dated 3 March 3019, in which Saruman's army besieges Théoden at Rohan's fortress and is defeated; Peter Jackson's film version, about 40 minutes long, adds elves and serves as the film's climax.
Battle of the Morannon
Battle of the Morannon, also called the Battle of the Black Gate: the last major battle of the War of the Ring in Tolkien's The Return of the King, fought 25 March T.A. 3019 at Dagorlad before the Morannon, a diversion by the Captains of the West.
Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Battle of the Pelennor Fields, also Battle of the Field of Gondor: fictional battle in Tolkien's The Return of the King, fought 15 March T.A. 3019 outside Minas Tirith, where Gondor and Rohan defeated Sauron's host and Éowyn and Merry slew the Witch-king.
Battle Royale (novel)
Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル) is Koushun Takami's 1999 Ohta Publishing dystopian novel in which 42 junior high students are forced by the Republic of Greater East Asia's Program to fight to the death; basis of the 2000 Fukasaku film and the battle royale genre.
Battle South of the City
Battle South of the City (战城南, Zhan chengnan) is an anonymous Han dynasty folk ballad mourning soldiers left unburied, one of the best-known anti-war poems in early Chinese literature.
Baumgartner's Bombay
Baumgartner's Bombay is a 1988 novel by Indian writer Anita Desai, following Hugo Baumgartner, a German Jew who flees to India and is interned during World War II.
Bayonet to the Gun
Bayonet to the Gun (Polish: Bagnet na broń) is a patriotic poem by Władysław Broniewski, published in April 1939 and later an informal hymn of the Polish underground.
Be More Chill
Be More Chill is Ned Vizzini's 2004 YA science fiction novel about Jeremy Heere, who swallows a supercomputer pill called a squip to become cool; it was adapted into a 2019 Broadway musical by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz, and a 2021 graphic novel.
Be With
Be With is a 2018 poetry collection by Forrest Gander, a book of elegies for his late partner C. D. Wright, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Beach Burial
Beach Burial is a 1944 poem by the Australian poet and war correspondent Kenneth Slessor, describing dead sailors buried in sand under crosses marked "Unknown seaman".
Bear (novel)
Bear is a 1976 novel by Canadian writer Marian Engel in which a lonely Toronto archivist enters into an erotic relationship with a bear on an island.
Beasts of No Nation
Beasts of No Nation: 2005 debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about child soldier Agu in an unnamed West African war, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner, and its 2015 Cary Fukunaga film with Idris Elba, Netflix's first original feature.
Beatrice Portinari
Beatrice Portinari (Bice, 1266–1290), Florentine daughter of Folco Portinari and wife of Simone de' Bardi, identified through Boccaccio and Pietro Alighieri as Dante's beloved and the guide of the Divine Comedy.
Beatrijs
Beatrijs is a 13th-century Middle Dutch rhymed poem, about 1,038 lines, telling how a nun who leaves her convent for love is forgiven through the Virgin Mary.
Beautiful Creatures (novel)
Beautiful Creatures (2009) is the debut YA Southern Gothic fantasy novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, first of the Caster Chronicles about Ethan Wate and the Caster Lena Duchannes in Gatlin, South Carolina; distinct from Michele Hauf's same-titled series.
Beautiful Fighting Girl
Beautiful Fighting Girl (戦闘美少女の精神分析, Sentō bishōjo no seishin bunseki) is Saitō Tamaki's 2000 psychoanalytic study of armed girl heroines in anime and manga and otaku sexuality, translated into English by Vincent and Lawson (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) with critical commentary by Hiroki Azuma.
Beautiful Ugly
Beautiful Ugly is a 2025 psychological thriller novel by British author Alice Feeney (Flatiron Books). Grady Green's wife Abby vanishes; a year later he retreats to Scotland's Isle of Amberly, a birdless island. NYT bestseller, NPR Best Book, Goodreads Choice Award nominee.
Beauty and Love
Beauty and Love (Hüsn ü Aşk) is an allegorical Sufi masnavi in Ottoman Turkish by Şeyh Galib, completed in 1783 and regarded as the last great masnavi of divan literature.
Beauty and Sadness
Beauty and Sadness (Utsukushisa to kanashimi to, 美しさと哀しみと) is a 1964 novel by Kawabata Yasunari, his last published novel, set in Kyoto around an old affair.
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) is a French literary fairy tale published by Villeneuve in 1740 and abridged by Beaumont in 1756; tale type ATU 425C, adapted by Cocteau (1946) and Disney (1991, 2017).
Because a White Man'll Never Do It
Because a White Man'll Never Do It is a 1973 book of polemic, poetry, and reportage by Kevin Gilbert, Aboriginal Australian writer and founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" (F479/J712), written c. 1862, published as "The Chariot" in 1890, a six-stanza common-meter ride with personified Death toward Eternity, its fourth stanza restored by Johnson in 1955.
Becoming (book)
Becoming (2018) is Michelle Obama's memoir, also known as Becoming: Mein Weg. It covers her Chicago childhood, Princeton and career, and White House years; it sold 15+ million copies and won a 2019 NAACP Image Award.
Bede's Death Song
Bede's Death Song is a five-line Old English poem on death and judgment, reportedly recited by the Venerable Bede on his deathbed at Jarrow in 735.
Beder Meye
Beder Meye (বেদের মেয়ে, "The Bede's Daughter") is a Bengali gitinatya, a lyrical drama with songs, written by the poet Jasimuddin and first published in 1951; it portrays the itinerant Bede community of rural Bengal.