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Cujo
Cujo is Stephen King's tenth novel, a 1981 horror bestseller (Viking Press) about a rabid Saint Bernard trapping Donna and Tad Trenton in a car in Castle Rock, Maine; it won the 1982 British Fantasy Award.
Culamani
Culamani (சூளாமணி), meaning "crest jewel," is a Tamil Jain epic by Tolamozhi Thevar, one of the five minor Tamil epics, commonly dated to the 10th century.
Cultural Amnesia
Cultural Amnesia is a 2007 book of more than 100 alphabetical biographical essays by Australian critic Clive James, defending liberal humanism against the totalitarianisms of the left and right.
Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl
Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl (ゲーセン少女と異文化交流, Game Center Shoujo to Ibunka Kouryuu) is Hirokazu Yasuhara's arcade-set romantic comedy manga about 18-year-old Renji and 13-year-old British girl Lily; 153 chapters, 12 volumes, and a 2025 Nomad anime on Crunchyroll.
Culture and Anarchy
Culture and Anarchy is an 1869 book by Matthew Arnold arguing that culture, the pursuit of human perfection through "the best which has been thought and said," is the remedy for anarchy in industrializing England.
Culture series
The Culture series: nine science fiction novels by Scottish author Iain M. Banks (1987–2012) plus The State of the Art, set in a post-scarcity interstellar utopia run by AI Minds, begun with Consider Phlebas; books are standalone and unrelated to other works named Culture.
Cung oán ngâm khúc
Cung oán ngâm khúc, written in 18th-century chữ Nôm script by the poet Nguyễn Gia Thiều, is an extended lament from the perspective of a discarded palace concubine.
Curious George
Curious George is a little monkey created by H.A. and Margret Rey, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941 after the Reys' 1940 bicycle escape from Paris; seven original books, 75 million copies sold, 25 languages, plus a 2006 film and PBS series.
Cursed and Killed
Cursed and Killed (Прокляты и убиты) is an unfinished novel about World War II by Viktor Astafyev, published in two parts in 1992 and 1994.
Cursor Mundi
Cursor Mundi is an anonymous Middle English poem of roughly 24,000 to 30,000 lines, written in the Northern dialect around 1300, retelling Christian history from the Creation to Doomsday.
Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT) is English-speaking anime fandom slang for a slice-of-life anime and manga genre of all-female casts doing everyday activities, tied to yonkoma manga, Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, and K-On!, with no exact Japanese equivalent term.
Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese's 2009 debut novel (Knopf), follows twins Marion and Shiva Stone, born to an Indian nun and British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; a bestselling medical family saga of exile and medicine.
Cutting It Short
Cutting It Short (Czech: Postřižiny) is a memoir novel by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, narrated by Maryška, the young wife of a brewery manager in Nymburk in the 1920s.
Cuvinte potrivite
Cuvinte potrivite (Romanian for "Fit Words") is the first poetry volume of Romanian writer Tudor Arghezi, published in 1927, opening with the poem "Testament" and marking a turning point in modern Romanian lyric poetry.
Cyborg 009 (サイボーグ009)
Cyborg 009 (サイボーグ009) is Shotaro Ishinomori's 1964 manga about nine people rebuilt as cyborg soldiers by Black Ghost who rebel; it popularized 'cyborg' in Japan and spawned anime from 1966 to the 2026 Nemesis series.
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, also known as Chambers's Cyclopaedia, is a two-volume English encyclopedia compiled by Ephraim Chambers and published in London in 1728.
Cymbeline
Cymbeline is a late Shakespeare play, probably written 1610, first printed in the 1623 First Folio as a tragedy. It tells of the British king Cymbeline, Imogen's wager plot, and a Roman invasion, drawing on Holinshed and Boccaccio.
Cynegetica
Cynegetica (Τὰ Κυνηγετικά, "On Hunting") is a Greek didactic poem on hunting in four books by a Syrian poet called Pseudo-Oppian, addressed to Caracalla around 212 to 217 CE.
Cypria
The Cypria (Greek Κύπρια) was a lost ancient Greek epic poem telling the causes of the Trojan War and the war's first nine years, ending where the Iliad begins.
D. João VI no Brasil
D. João VI no Brasil (1808–1821) is Oliveira Lima's two-volume masterpiece of 1908, rehabilitating the king as founder of Brazilian nationality during the court's Rio de Janeiro residence.
Daario Naharis
Daario Naharis: Tyroshi sellsword captain of the Stormcrows in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, lover of Daenerys Targaryen; in HBO's Game of Thrones he leads the Second Sons and is played by Ed Skrein (season 3) and Michiel Huisman (seasons 4-6).
Đački rastanak
Đački rastanak (Ђачки растанак, "The Students' Farewell") is an 1844 lyric poem by the Serbian Romantic poet Branko Radičević, farewell to his school days in Sremski Karlovci.
Daddy-Long-Legs (novel)
Daddy-Long-Legs, also known in Japanese as Ashinaga Ojisan, is Jean Webster's 1912 epistolary novel in which orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott writes letters to the anonymous trustee who funds her college education, not knowing he is Jervis Pendleton.
Dæmon (His Dark Materials)
Dæmon (His Dark Materials): the external animal embodiment of a person's soul in Philip Pullman's trilogies. Shapeshifts in childhood, settles at puberty, severed by intercision; absent in our world.
Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen (Dany, Daenerys Stormborn) is the fictional Targaryen heroine of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, portrayed by Emilia Clarke; only living dragon-commander, Meereen queen, killed in the show finale, alive in the published books.
Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし)
Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし) is Kotoyama's dagashi comedy manga, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday 2014–2018 in 11 volumes, about shop heir Kokonotsu Shikada and snack fanatic Hotaru Shidare; adapted as 12-episode anime seasons in 2016 and 2018.
Dagon (short story)
"Dagon" is a short horror story by H. P. Lovecraft, written July 1917, first published in The Vagrant no. 11 (November 1919), reprinted in Weird Tales October 1923 as his first pulp appearance; it foreshadows the Cthulhu Mythos.
Dagwerck
Dagwerck ("day's work") is a Dutch long poem by Constantijn Huygens, written between 1627 and 1638, describing his marriage to Suzanna van Baerle through the course of a single day.
Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca
Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca (大南國史演歌) is a Vietnamese verse chronicle in lục bát meter by Lê Ngô Cát and Phạm Đình Toái, printed in the 1860s and 1870s.
Daijingtang Shihua
Daijingtang Shihua (带经堂诗话, "Remarks on Poetry from the Daijing Hall") is a Chinese collection of remarks on poetry, compiled by Zhang Zongnan from Wang Shizhen's writings and completed in 1760.