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The Shadow of the Object
The Shadow of the Object names two books: Christopher Bollas's 1987 psychoanalytic work introducing the unthought known, and Chloe Aridjis's 2026 Booker-longlisted novel about Flora, Wilhelmina, and a magic lantern.
The Shadow of the Tyrant
The Shadow of the Tyrant (La sombra del caudillo) is a 1929 political novel by Mexican writer Martín Luis Guzmán, depicting rival chieftains contesting power after the Mexican Revolution.
The Shadow of the Wind
The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento) is Carlos Ruiz Zafón's 2001 novel, translated by Lucia Graves in 2004, about Daniel Sempere, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and author Julián Carax in postwar Barcelona; first of a four-book series with reported sales of 25 to 50 million copies.
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow over Innsmouth: H. P. Lovecraft horror novella written November–December 1931, first published 1936 by Visionary Publishing Co. as his only lifetime book; decaying Massachusetts seaport, Deep Ones, Esoteric Order of Dagon.
The Shadowhunter Chronicles
The Shadowhunter Chronicles, also called the Shadowhunters books by Cassandra Clare, is a YA urban fantasy universe launched with City of Bones (2007), spanning five series over 150 years and concluding with The Wicked Powers (2026).
The Shaman's Story
The Shaman's Story, better known as Munyeodo (무녀도), is a 1936 short story by the Korean writer Kim Tongni, dramatizing the conflict between a village shaman and her Christian son.
The Shepheardes Calender
The Shepheardes Calender is Edmund Spenser's first major work, a book of twelve pastoral eclogues named for the months, published anonymously in London in 1579 and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.
The Shield of Achilles
"The Shield of Achilles" is a 1952 poem by W. H. Auden rewriting Homer's forge scene, the title poem of his 1955 collection, which won the 1956 National Book Award.
The Shining (miniseries)
The Shining is a 1997 American television horror miniseries directed by Mick Garris, written by Stephen King from his 1977 novel, and starring Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay.
The Shining (novel)
The Shining (1977), Stephen King's third novel published by Doubleday, follows Jack Torrance and family at the haunted Overlook Hotel; inspired by the Stanley Hotel, adapted by Kubrick in 1980, sequel Doctor Sleep (2013).
The Shop of the Lin Family
The Shop of the Lin Family (林家铺子) is a 1932 short story by Chinese writer Mao Dun, following a Jiangnan shop owner driven to bankruptcy amid boycotts and war.
The Shopboy's God
The Shopboy's God (小僧の神様) is a 1919 short story by the Japanese writer Shiga Naoya about a poor apprentice treated to tuna sushi by a nobleman.
The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses (気絶勇者と暗殺姫)
The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses (気絶勇者と暗殺姫) is a harem death comedy manga by Norishiro-chan and Yukio Yukita in Weekly Shōnen Champion, adapted into a 12-episode CONNECT anime broadcast from July 2025.
The Sicilian
The Sicilian is Mario Puzo's 1984 novel about the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano (spelled Guiliano), framed by Michael Corleone's 1950 Palermo exile from The Godfather, set in postwar Sicily against the Mafia's Don Croce.
The Sick Stockrider
"The Sick Stockrider" is a bush ballad by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, written in 1869, in which a dying stockman recalls his life in the colonial bush.
The Siege of Numantia
The Siege of Numantia (El cerco de Numancia) is a verse tragedy by Miguel de Cervantes about Numantians destroying their city rather than surrender to Rome.
The Siege of Sziget
The Siege of Sziget (Hungarian: Szigeti veszedelem) is a Hungarian Baroque epic by Miklós Zrínyi, recounting the 1566 Ottoman siege of Szigetvár; it was printed in 1651.
The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four (also The Sign of Four) is Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 second Sherlock Holmes novel, commissioned with Oscar Wilde at the Langham Hotel, set in 1888 London and colonial India around the Agra treasure.
The Silence of Love
The Silence of Love (Nimui chimmuk) is a 1926 poetry collection by Han Yong-un, a Korean Buddhist monk and independence activist, containing 88 poems and read as resistance to Japanese colonial rule.
The Silence of the Forest
The Silence of the Forest (Le silence de la forêt) is a 1984 novel by Central African writer Étienne Goyémidé about a school inspector who lives among the Babinga Pygmies.
The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988) is Thomas Harris's sequel to Red Dragon, in which FBI trainee Clarice Starling bargains with imprisoned cannibal-killer Hannibal Lecter to catch Buffalo Bill; it won the Bram Stoker and Anthony Awards and inspired the 1991 Oscar-winning film.
The Silent Brotherhood (book)
The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground is Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt's 1989 Free Press book about The Order, the Robert Mathews-led neo-Nazi group that killed Alan Berg; republished as The Order in 2024.
The Silent Cry
The Silent Cry (万延元年のフットボール, Man'en Gannen no Futtobōru) is a 1967 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe set in a Shikoku village, winner of the 1967 Tanizaki Prize.
The Silent Patient
The Silent Patient is a 2019 psychological thriller novel by Alex Michaelides, his debut, in which a psychotherapist tries to make a painter who shot her husband speak again.
The Silesian Songs
The Silesian Songs (Slezské písně) is the only poetry collection of the Czech poet Petr Bezruč, depicting the oppression of Silesia's people under Austro-Hungarian rule in a rebellious voice.
The Silesian Weavers
The Silesian Weavers, or Die schlesischen Weber, is an 1844 political poem by Heinrich Heine about the Silesian weavers' revolt, later called the Marseillaise of the German workers.
The Silkworm
The Silkworm (2014) is the second Cormoran Strike detective novel by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith, published by Sphere (UK) and Little, Brown (US), featuring the murder of novelist Owen Quine and his manuscript Bombyx Mori.
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion is Tolkien's posthumous 1977 mythology of Middle-earth's First Age, edited by Christopher Tolkien with Guy Gavriel Kay from unfinished drafts, including the Ainulindalë creation account.
The Silver Age
The Silver Age (《白银时代》) is a dystopian novel and story collection by the Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, second volume of his Era Trilogy between The Golden Age and The Bronze Age.
The Silver Chair
The Silver Chair is a 1953 children's fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis, fourth in publication order among the Chronicles of Narnia, in which Eustace and Jill rescue Prince Rilian.