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Bu She Zhe Shuo
Bu She Zhe Shuo (The Snake Catcher, 捕蛇者说) is a classical Chinese essay by Tang writer Liu Zongyuan, in which a snake catcher prefers snakebite to paying taxes.
Buah Rindu
Buah Rindu, published under the old spelling Boeah Rindoe, is a 1941 poetry collection by the Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah, written in Java between 1928 and 1935.
Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers, also Anthony Rogers, is a science fiction hero created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D., star of the first science fiction comic strip (1929), radio, the 1939 Buster Crabbe serial, and the 1979-1981 NBC series.
Buckeye (novel)
Buckeye, Patrick Ryan's 2025 Random House/Bloomsbury multigenerational WWII-and-Vietnam home-front novel set in fictional Bonhomie, Ohio; NYT bestseller, Read With Jenna pick, Ohio Book Award finalist.
Buckow Elegies
The Buckow Elegies (Buckower Elegien) are a cycle of short poems by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1953 at his country house in Buckow in reaction to the East German uprising.
Bud, Not Buddy
Bud, Not Buddy is a 1999 children's historical fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis, set in 1936 Flint, Michigan, following orphan Bud Caldwell's search for bandleader Herman E. Calloway; it won the 2000 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award.
Buda halála
Buda halála (The Death of Buda) is a Hungarian narrative epic in twelve cantos by János Arany, written 1862–1863 and published in Pest in 1864.
Budapeste
Budapeste is a 2003 novel by Brazilian writer Chico Buarque, his third, following ghostwriter José Costa, divided between Rio de Janeiro and Budapest and two languages; it won the Prêmio Jabuti.
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie is the first novel of Thomas Mann, published in 1901, following four generations of a wealthy Lübeck merchant family to extinction; it won Mann the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Buduguna Alankaraya
Buduguna Alankaraya (බුදුගුණාලංකාරය) is a Sinhala classical poem on the Nine Great Qualities of the Buddha, composed in the ornate alankara tradition of the Kotte period.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: 40-issue Dark Horse Comics series (2007–2011), the canonical comic continuation of the TV show overseen and partly written by Joss Whedon, opening with The Long Way Home.
Bug Ego
Bug Ego (バグエゴ, Bagu Ego) is a seinen manga by ONE (One-Punch Man) and Kiyoto Shitara, serialized by Shueisha in Ultra Jump since October 2024, about high schoolers using a notebook of reality-altering hacks.
Buile Shuibhne
Buile Shuibhne (Buile Suibhne, The Frenzy/Madness of Suibhne) is a medieval Irish prosimetric tale in which the Ulster king Suibhne (Sweeney), cursed by St Rónán, goes mad at the battle of Magh Rath (637) and lives wild like a bird as a poet; edited by O'Keeffe in 1913 and translated by Heaney as Sweeney Astray.
Bujangga Manik
Bujangga Manik is an Old Sundanese narrative poem of about 1500, preserved on a single palm-leaf manuscript in the Bodleian Library, recounting a Hindu-Sundanese hermit's travels through Java and Bali.
Bukan Pasar Malam
Bukan Pasar Malam is a short novel by the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, published by Balai Pustaka around 1950 and read as a record of disillusionment after the revolution.
Bulgarian children's literature
Bulgarian children's literature is the body of writing for children in Bulgaria, rooted in the 19th-century National Revival and shaped by Enlightenment ideas and national liberation from Ottoman rule.
Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies
Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies is a 1994 novel by New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera, about two patriarchs competing for the title of King of the Gypsies.
Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond is a fictional British gentleman adventurer created by H. C. McNeile ("Sapper") in the 1920 novel Bull-Dog Drummond, featuring Captain Hugh Drummond versus villain Carl Peterson; a forerunner of James Bond.
Bullet Train (マリアビートル) (novel)
Bullet Train, originally Maria Beetle (マリアビートル), is a 2010 Kotaro Isaka thriller, second in his hitman series, in which several assassins collide on a Tokyo-to-Morioka Tohoku Shinkansen. Translated by Sam Malissa (2021); basis of the 2022 Brad Pitt film.
Bulletin Debate
The Bulletin Debate was an 1892 exchange of poems in The Bulletin between Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson over realism versus romanticism in depicting the Australian bush.
Bullocky
"Bullocky" is a poem by the Australian poet Judith Wright, first published in The Bulletin in 1944, which casts a bullock driver as an "old Moses" leading his team to the Promised Land.
Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge
Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge is Jim Schutze's 1997 book on the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent by seven acquaintances near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Bumi Manusia
Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) is a 1980 Indonesian novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the first volume of the Buru Quartet, following the Javanese student Minke in the colonial Dutch East Indies.
Bunka Shūreishū
Bunka Shūreishū (文華秀麗集, Collection of Masterpieces of Literary Talent) is a Japanese anthology of Chinese-style poetry compiled in 818 by imperial command of Emperor Saga.
Bunnicula
Bunnicula is a series of seven children's novels, begun by Deborah and James Howe in 1979, about a rabbit that drains the juice from vegetables.
Bunny (novel)
Bunny is a 2019 satirical horror novel by Canadian writer Mona Awad, about a scholarship student drawn into a clique of classmates who call each other "Bunny."
Bước đường cùng
Bước đường cùng, meaning "At the end of the road," is a 1938 Vietnamese novel by Nguyễn Công Hoan about a poor farmer driven to revolt.
Burger's Daughter
Burger's Daughter is a 1979 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer about Rosa Burger, daughter of a white revolutionary who died in prison fighting apartheid.
Burhi Aair Sadhu
Burhi Aair Sadhu, meaning Grandmother's Tales, is a collection of Assamese folktales compiled by Lakshminath Bezbaruah, first published in 1911 and ranked among the most popular works in Assamese literature.
Buried treasure
Buried treasure: valuables such as precious metals, stones, or money hidden in the ground and covered over. Covers real pre-banking caches, the Captain Kidd pirate myth behind Treasure Island, folklore find ratios, and found caches like the Fenn treasure and Wydah wreck.