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Chhava
Chhava (छावा), meaning "lion cub," is a Marathi historical novel by Shivaji Sawant portraying Sambhaji Maharaj, first published around 1979 and adapted into the 2025 Hindi film Chhaava.
Chhayanat
Chhayanat (ছায়ানট) is a 1925 collection of poems and songs by Kazi Nazrul Islam, and the name of cultural organizations founded in Dhaka in 1961 and in Kolkata.
Chí Phèo
Chí Phèo is a 1941 short story by the Vietnamese realist writer Nam Cao, set in the village of Vũ Đại and now a classic of modern Vietnamese literature.
Chibi Fu
Chibi Fu, or Rhapsody on the Red Cliff, is a prose rhapsody written by the Song poet Su Shi in 1082 during his exile in Huangzhou.
Chick lit
Chick lit, also called chick-lit, is a 1990s popular fiction genre of humorous novels by and for women about young single urban professional women, launched by Bridget Jones's Diary and Sex and the City, coined by Mazza and DeShell in 1995, and later fragmented into romance and women's fiction.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Chicken Soup for the Soul: inspirational anthology series created by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, first published 1993 by Health Communications after about 33 rejections; 101 stories per book, over 500 million copies, publishing now separate from the bankrupt 2024 entertainment arm.
Chidambara
Chidambara (चिदंबरा) is a Hindi poetry collection by Sumitranandan Pant, first published in 1958, that gathers selected poems from 1937 to 1957 and brought Pant the Jnanpith Award.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, also known as Armand Gamache, is a fictional detective by Louise Penny who leads the Three Pines mystery series set in Quebec's Eastern Townships.
Chieko-shō
Chieko-shō (智恵子抄) is a 1941 poetry collection by the Japanese poet and sculptor Takamura Kōtarō, tracing his love for his wife Chieko from courtship through her death in 1938.
Chihna Yatra
Chihna Yatra (চিহ্নযাত্ৰা), literally "pageant in painted scenes," was the first drama of Assamese saint Srimanta Sankaradeva, staged about 1468; the text is lost, but it marks the beginning of Assamese drama.
Child of Europe
Child of Europe (Dziecię Europy) is a 1946 poem by Czesław Miłosz, written in New York and addressed to Europeans who survived World War II through moral compromise.
Child of God
Child of God is a 1973 novel by Cormac McCarthy, his third, set in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the early 1960s, following outcast Lester Ballard into violence and murder.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long narrative poem in four cantos by Lord Byron, published between 1812 and 1818, based on his travels in southern Europe.
Childhood and Youth
Childhood and Youth (Մանկութիւն եւ պատանեկութիւն, Mankutiun yev Patanekutiun) is an autobiographical trilogy by Armenian Soviet writer Gurgen Mahari, following a boy through the 1915 deportation and orphanage years.
Childhood Memories
Childhood Memories (Amintiri din copilărie) is a four-part autobiographical narrative by Romanian writer Ion Creangă, recounting his boyhood as Nică in Humulești and regarded as the first literary autobiography in Romanian literature.
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Russian: Детство. Отрочество. Юность) is a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novellas by Leo Tolstoy, tracing the development of Nikolenka Irtenyev from age ten to sixteen.
Children of Anguish and Anarchy
Children of Anguish and Anarchy is Tomi Adeyemi's 2024 third and final Legacy of Orïsha YA fantasy novel, in which Zélie, abducted by King Baldyr's Skulls, fights to save Orïsha before the Blood Moon.
Children of Blood and Bone
Children of Blood and Bone is Tomi Adeyemi's 2018 YA fantasy debut (Legacy of Orïsha #1, Henry Holt), set in Orïsha, following Zélie Adebola's quest to restore magic; award-winning, with a Paramount film due January 15, 2027.
Children of the Arbat
Children of the Arbat (Дети Арбата) is a novel by Soviet Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov following young Muscovites through the 1930s repressions, published in 1987 after two decades of censorship.
Children of the Corn
Children of the Corn, Stephen King horror short story (Penthouse, March 1977; Night Shift, 1978) about Burt and Vicky in Gatlin, Nebraska, and the cult worshipping He Who Walks Behind the Rows; basis of the 1984 Fritz Kiersch film and its sequels.
Children of the Mire
Children of the Mire (Los hijos del limo) is a 1974 book of essays by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz, tracing modern poetry from Romanticism to the avant-garde.
Children of the Underground
Children of the Underground (Дети подземелья) is the shortened, child-oriented version of Vladimir Korolenko's 1885 novella In Bad Society, a standard Soviet fifth-grade school text.
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards
The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, established in 1946, honor Australian children's books of literary merit in categories from early childhood to older readers.
Children's fantasy
Children's fantasy is fantasy fiction defined by its child audience, in which magic and imaginary worlds drive the story; it emerged as a distinct literature in Victorian Britain.
Children's literature
Children's literature: body of works written for or adopted by child readers, from picture books to middle-grade fiction, distinct from young adult literature (ages 12–18). Key facts: eighteenth-century English origins, John Newbery, print-versus-digital reading trends, censorship debates, and children's literature studies as an academic field.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a 2014 Archie Horror comic by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack, a 1960s-set dark occult reimagining of Sabrina Spellman; it ran 9 issues and inspired the 2018 Netflix series starring Kiernan Shipka.
China Rich Girlfriend
China Rich Girlfriend is Kevin Kwan's 2015 satirical romantic-comedy novel, sequel to Crazy Rich Asians and book two of the trilogy, following Rachel Chu and Nick Young into Shanghai's super-rich world.
Chinese and Korean visual novels
Chinese and Korean visual novels are visual novels made in China and South Korea. Chinese originals went mainstream around 2012, while South Korea's Cheritz found success with Mystic Messenger.
Chinese avant-garde fiction
Chinese avant-garde fiction (先锋小说) is a movement in Chinese literature from the mid-1980s, associated with Ma Yuan, Can Xue, and Yu Hua, defined by radical formal experimentation.
Chinese classics
Chinese classics (五經 Five Classics; 四書 Four Books): the Confucian canonical corpus of poetry, documents, rites, changes, and annals canonized under Han Emperor Wu and recentered by Zhu Xi in 1190.