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Catullus 85
Catullus 85 is a two-line Latin epigram by the Roman poet Catullus that opens "Odi et amo," "I hate and I love," and is addressed to his mistress Lesbia.
Caught Stealing (novel)
Caught Stealing is Charlie Huston's 2004 debut crime novel from Ballantine Books, first of the Hank Thompson trilogy, about a former baseball player turned Lower East Side bartender hunted for $4.5 million; adapted by Aronofsky in 2025.
Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (この勇者が俺TUEEEくせに慎重すぎる)
Cautious Hero (この勇者が俺TUEEEくせに慎重すぎる; Shinchou Yuusha) is a Light Tuchihi comedy isekai light novel, manga, and 2019 White Fox anime about overpowered hero Seiya Ryuuguuin and goddess Ristarte, whose extreme overpreparation drives the gag and a late tragic reveal.
Cecilia Valdés
Cecilia Valdés is an 1882 Cuban novel by Cirilo Villaverde, often called the foundational novel of Cuban literature, depicting slavery and society in colonial Havana.
Celebrimbor
Celebrimbor (Telperinquar), Tolkien's Noldorin smith, lord of Eregion and maker of the Three Elven Rings; deceived by Sauron as Annatar, he forged the Rings of Power and died in the Sack of Eregion, S.A. 1697.
Celestial Bodies
Celestial Bodies, also known as Sayyidat al-Qamar, is a 2010 novel by the Omani writer Jokha Alharthi following three sisters in the village of al-Awafi.
Cell (novel)
Cell is Stephen King's 2006 apocalyptic horror novel (Scribner, January 24, 2006) in which The Pulse, sent through cell phones, turns users into zombie-like killers; artist Clayton Riddell walks from Boston toward Maine and Kashwak. Adapted as the 2016 film Cell with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.
Celtic Twilight
The Celtic Twilight (1893, revised 1902) is a collection of Irish folk tales and beliefs gathered by W. B. Yeats from the rural working class of western Ireland.
Cemetery of Forgotten Books
Cemetery of Forgotten Books (El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados) is Carlos Ruiz Zafón's Barcelona quartet, 2001–2016, and its secret library where visitors protect one chosen book for life; The Shadow of the Wind sold about 25 million copies.
Cemetery of Mind
Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera is a 1992 posthumous collection of about 140 poems by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, edited by Flora Veit-Wild.
Cenobite (Hellraiser)
Cenobites are the extradimensional, sadomasochistic beings of Clive Barker's Hellraiser, first appearing in The Hellbound Heart (1986) and Hellraiser (1987). Summoned via the Lament Configuration puzzle box, led by Pinhead (Doug Bradley), they blur pain and pleasure, unlike slasher villains.
Central American social novel
The Central American social novel is a current of fiction from the 1930s onward depicting the peasantry, indigenous peoples, and exploited regions, denouncing dictatorship and foreign domination.
Centuria (manga)
Centuria (ケントゥリア, Kenturia) is a dark fantasy web manga by Tohru Kuramori, serialized on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ since April 2024; it follows slave Julian, empowered by a sea god with 100 lives, protecting baby Diana, and placed second in the Next Manga Award 2024 web category.
Ceremonia secreta
Ceremonia secreta is a short novel by the Argentine writer Marco Denevi, first prize winner in a Life en español contest in 1960 and published as a book in 1961.
Cerita Kanak-Kanak
Cerita kanak-kanak, Malay for children's stories, covers literature written or told for children, from oral folk tales like Sang Kancil to modern Malaysian picture books.
Cerita Raja-Raja
Cerita Raja-Raja, Malay for tales of the kings, is the body of traditional Malay royal narratives, chronicles, and genealogies, part of the richest branch of Malay literature.
Cerita Rakyat Melayu
Cerita rakyat Melayu are the Malay world's folk tales, told orally from generation to generation, spanning origin tales, animal tales, comic tales like Pak Pandir, and legends.
Cerita silat
Cerita silat, Indonesian and Malay for "silat stories," is a popular fiction genre about pendekar, martial-arts masters who right wrongs, widely read in Indonesia after independence.
Cerpen
Cerpen, short for cerita pendek, is a short work of prose fiction in Indonesian and Malay literature, typically under 10,000 words and focused on a single conflict.
Cersei Lannister
Cersei Lannister, also known as Queen Cersei, is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels and the show Game of Thrones.
Chacha Chaudhary (चाचा चौधरी)
Chacha Chaudhary (चाचा चौधरी), also spelled Chacha Choudhary, is an Indian comic character created by Pran Kumar Sharma for Lotpot (1969 or 1971), published by Diamond Comics, whose brain runs faster than a computer and whose companion is the Jupiter-born Sabu.
Chaereas and Callirhoe
Chaereas and Callirhoe, by Chariton of Aphrodisias, is an eight-book Greek romance and probably the oldest fully preserved Greek novel, following Callirhoe from Syracuse to Babylon.
Chahar Maqala
Chahar Maqala (چهار مقاله, "Four Discourses"), originally titled Majma' al-nawadir, is a Persian prose work by Nezami Aruzi, written 1155-57, covering secretaries, poets, astrologers, and physicians.
Chain novel
Chain novel (collaborative novel): a novel written by different authors taking turns on chapters or sections, often with no pre-agreed plot. Examples span The Fate of Fenella (1891–92), Fourteen Days (2024), and wiki experiments like A Million Penguins.
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Chain-Gang All-Stars (チェーンギャング・オールスターズ) is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's 2023 debut dystopian satire novel, set in an alternate US where prisoners fight televised CAPE death matches for freedom; a National Book Award finalist and Alex Award winner.
Chainsmoker Cat (ヤニねこ)
Chainsmoker Cat (ヤニねこ, Yani Neko) is a Japanese comedy manga by NyanNyanFactory serialized in Weekly Young Magazine since February 2023, about a chain-smoking catgirl named Yaniko; adapted into a Bibury Animation Studios anime streamed on Netflix from July 2026.
Chaitanya Bhagavata
Chaitanya Bhagavata (চৈতন্যভাগবত) is a sixteenth-century Bengali hagiographic poem by Vrindavana Dasa narrating the life of the saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, his earliest substantial biography in Bengali.
Chaka
Chaka is a Sesotho novel by Thomas Mofolo, written 1909 to 1910 and published in 1925, that fictionalizes the life of the Zulu king Shaka.
Champignon Witch
Champignon Witch (シャンピニオンの魔女, Champignon no Majo) is a shōjo fantasy manga by Tachibana Higuchi, serialized on Hakusensha's Manga Park since 2019, about the poisonous black witch Luna; seven volumes and a 2026 twelve-episode anime adaptation.
Chan Giparang-ga
Chan Giparang-ga (찬기파랑가, "Song in Praise of Giparang") is a ten-line hyangga by the Silla monk Chungdam, written during King Gyeongdeok's reign to mourn and praise the hwarang Giparang.