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Y: The Last Man
Y: The Last Man is a 60-issue Vertigo comic (2002-2008) by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra about Yorick Brown, last Y-chromosome mammal survivor with his monkey Ampersand, and its canceled 2021 FX on Hulu TV adaptation.
Yadam
Yadam (야담) is a genre of short, miscellaneous stories written in classical Chinese during the late Joseon period in Korea, first collected in Yu Mong-in's Eou Yadam.
Yaka
Yaka is a 1984 historical novel by the Angolan writer Pepetela that follows the settler Semedo family through the last century of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola, from 1890 to 1975.
Yakhal'inkomo
Yakhal'inkomo, a Nguni title meaning "the cry of the cow", is the first poetry collection by South African poet Mongane Wally Serote, published in 1972 and winner of the Ingrid Jonker Prize.
Yalo
Yalo is a 2002 novel by the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, about a young man forced to write his life story under interrogation after the civil war.
Yam Gruel
Yam Gruel (Imogayu) is a 1916 short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a timid Heian-period samurai whose wish to eat his fill of yam gruel comes true.
Yama Zatdaw
Yama Zatdaw (ရာမဇာတ်တော်) is the Burmese version of the Ramayana, treated as a Jataka story of Theravada Buddhism and regarded as Myanmar's unofficial national epic, with Rama known as Yama and Sita as Thida.
Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
The Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize (山本周五郎賞) is an annual Japanese literary prize for works of outstanding narrative quality, established in 1987 and awarded alongside the Mishima Yukio Prize.
Yamato Monogatari
Yamato Monogatari (大和物語, Tales of Yamato) is a mid-Heian Japanese uta-monogatari of 173 sections built around about 300 waka poems, compiled around 951 and a major work of the genre.
Yan Ge Xing
Yan Ge Xing (燕歌行) is a pair of yuefu poems by Cao Pi of Cao Wei, considered the first mature seven-character poems in Chinese literature.
Yang Zhou Man
Yang Zhou Man (扬州慢, "Slow Tune of Yangzhou") is a ci tune with words and melody composed by Southern Song poet Jiang Kui in 1176, mourning Yangzhou after Jin raids.
Yangbanjeon
Yangbanjeon (양반전, "The Tale of a Yangban") is an 18th-century Korean satirical story by Park Ji-won, in which a starving yangban tries to sell his aristocratic status to a wealthy commoner.
Yangchun Collection
The Yangchun Collection (Yangchun ji, 陽春集) is a collection of ci lyrics by the Southern Tang poet and chancellor Feng Yansi, compiled by Chen Shixiu in 1058.
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days (矢野くんの普通の日々, Yano-kun no Futsū no Hibi) is an ongoing school romantic-comedy manga by Yui Tamura, serialized on Kodansha's Comic Days since June 2021, with 13 volumes, a 2024 live-action film, and a 2025 TV anime.
Yanshan Night Talks
Yanshan Night Talks (燕山夜话) is a 1961–1962 essay column by Deng Tuo, pen name Ma Nancun, in the Beijing Evening News; 153 knowledge essays, collected 1963, denounced in 1966's Three Village case, rehabilitated and republished 1979.
Yashodhara
Yashodhara (यशोधरा) is a 1932 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, the Rashtrakavi, retelling the Buddha's renunciation from the viewpoint of his abandoned wife Yashodhara.
Yashodhara Charite
Yashodhara Charite (ಯಶೋಧರ ಚರಿತೆ) is a Kannada Jain narrative poem composed by the poet Janna in 1209, telling how a king, his mother, and his wife suffer violent rebirths.
Yawar Fiesta
Yawar Fiesta is the first novel of the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, published in Lima in 1941 and set in the highland town of Puquio.
Yayati
Yayati (ययाति, Yayati) is a lunar-dynasty emperor of the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, cursed with old age by Shukra; his son Puru took it in exchange, and Yayati's sons Yadu and Puru founded the Yadava and Kuru lines.
Yayati (ययाति) (novel)
Yayati (ययाति) is V. S. Khandekar's 1959 Marathi mythological novel retelling the Mahabharata's Yayatopakhyan; it won the 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award and the 1974 Jnanpith Award, the first for Marathi, and is distinct from Girish Karnad's 1961 play of the same name.
Yedi Güzel Adam
Yedi Güzel Adam ('Seven Beautiful Men') is a long poem and 1973 book by Turkish poet Cahit Zarifoğlu, whose title later named the circle of seven writers it portrays.
Yegor Bulychov and the Others
Yegor Bulychov and the Others (Егор Булычов и другие) is a three-act play by Maxim Gorky, written 1930–1931, about a wealthy merchant facing death as the February Revolution arrives.
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is a 1996 collection of 22 essays by Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko on Native American life, land, and storytelling.
Yeongung soseol
Yeongung soseol (영웅소설, "hero novel") is a genre of premodern Korean fiction whose heroes resolve the conflict between self and world, including works like Hong Gildongjeon.
Yesou Puyan
Yesou Puyan (野叟曝言), also titled First Book of Marvels, is a Qing dynasty vernacular novel by Xia Jingqu, finished around 1779, and the leading scholarship novel.
Yesteryear (novel)
Yesteryear is a 2026 satirical thriller and debut novel by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf), in which tradwife influencer Natalie Heller Mills wakes up in 1855; #1 NYT bestseller with over 1 million copies sold and an Anne Hathaway film adaptation.
Yeven Metzulah
Yeven Metzulah (יון מצולה), translated as Abyss of Despair, is a Hebrew chronicle by Nathan Neta Hannover, published in Venice in 1653, describing the massacres of Jews during the Khmelnytsky uprising of 1648–1649.
Yi Jian Mei: Boat Crossing Wujiang
"Yi Jian Mei: Boat Crossing Wujiang" (一剪梅·舟过吴江) is a ci poem by Southern Song poet Jiang Jie, written after his boat passed through Wujiang county near Lake Tai.
Yiddish grotesque and fantastic prose
Yiddish grotesque and fantastic prose is a body of Yiddish fiction in which supernatural figures like dybbuks, golems, and demons are central devices, exemplified by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Yiddish historical novel
A Yiddish historical novel is extended prose fiction in Yiddish set in the past, emerging among the nineteenth-century maskilim and flowering in the early twentieth century.