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- The Acts of Caine
- Always Save the Girl (Heroes Die)
- Honesty Is the Best Policy (Caine Black Knife)
- Satisfied Street Rat (Blade of Tyshalle)
- The Slow Walk (Blade of Tyshalle)
- Walking Disaster Area (Blade of Tyshalle)
- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (John Steinbeck)
- Aeon 14
- Anti-Nepotism (The Scipio Alliance)
- Planetary Relocation (Starfire)
- Aesop's Fables
- Angst Dissonance ("The Oxen and the Wheels")
- The Farmer and the Viper ("The Farmer and the Viper")
- Agricola
- Alcatraz Series
- Action Prologue (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians)
- Better Than It Sounds (Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia)
- Android Karenina
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- Andy Griffiths' Just Series
- Grossout Fakeout (Just Stupid)
- The Angel of History
- Animorphs
- Aliens Love Human Food (#8: The Alien)
- Been There, Shaped History (#34: The Prophecy)
- Bleed 'Em and Weep (Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret'')
- Drawing Straws
- Forgot About the Mind Reader
- Helpless Observer Protagonist (Megamorphs #4: Back to Before'')
- Kevlard
- New Tech Is Not Cheap (#14: The Unknown)
- Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering (#15: The Escape)
- Oceanic Horror (#27: The Exposed)
- Reasonable Authority Figure (#51: The Absolute)
- Shapeshifter Showoff Session (#45: The Revelation)
- Shark Tunnel (#15: The Escape)
- Villainous Vow (The Ellimist Chronicles)
- Annals
- Ant and Bee and the ABC
- "Antigonish"
- The Anti-Christ
- The Apothecary Diaries
- Purging the Poison (volume 1)
- Arabian Nights
- Our Genies Are Different ("Aladdin")
- Our Ghouls Are Creepier ("The Story of Sidi Nouman", Grub Street edition, 1706)
- Arsène Lupin
- Spiritual Crossover (Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes, blurb)
- Ars Poetica
- Artemis Fowl
- Battle Butler (The Arctic Incident)
- First Time Feeling (The Time Paradox)
- I Was Never Here (The Eternity Code)
- MagnificentBastard.Literature (The Eternity Code)
- SarcasmBlind.Literature (The Eternity Code)
-
What an Idiot! (The Atlantis Complex)
- Axtara
- Stumbling in the New Form (Magic and Mischief)
- Bad Cold
- The Ball and the Cross
- Bare Faced Messiah
- The Belgariad
- Empathic Environment (The Malloreon: Seeress of Kell)
- Equalizing the Interspecies Romance (The Belgariad: Castle of Wizardry)
- Master Poisoner (The Malloreon)
- Request for Privacy (Belgarath the Sorcerer)
- Serrated Blade of Pain (The Malloreon: King of the Murgos)
- Someday This Will Come in Handy (The Malloreon)
- Stop Worshipping Me! (Belgarath the Sorcerer)
- The Storyteller (The Malloreon: Seeress of Kell)
- Sweeping the Table (Polgara the Sorceress)
- True Blue Femininity (The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy)
- Belisarius Series
- BattleCouple.Literature (In the Heart of Darkness)
- Bodyguarding a Badass
- Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards (In the Heart of Darkness)
- The Women Are Safe with Us (An Oblique Approach)
- Beowulf
- The Descendants of Cain (Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, J. R. R. Tolkien)
- Famed in Story
- The Berenstain Bears
- Congestion Speak (The Berenstein Bears Come Clean for School)
- Slow and Steady Wins the Race (The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race)
- BIONICLE
- TeethClenchedTeamwork.Literature (BIONICLE Chronicles #4: Tales of the Masks)
- Bird by Bird
- The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
- Book of Swords
- Emotion Bomb (1st Book of Swords)
- The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
- The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome
- A.H. Reginald Buller
The Camp Half-Blood Series
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- Bazaar of the Bizarre (The Lightning Thief)
- Hot God
- Pantheon Sitcom (The Sea of Monsters)
- Struggling Single Mother (The Lightning Thief)
- Underwater Kiss (The Last Olympian)
- The Heroes of Olympus
- Bonding over Missing Parents (The Mark of Athena)
- Cryptically Unhelpful Answer (The Son of Neptune)
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight (The Son of Neptune)
- The Canterbury Tales
- Literal Ass-Kissing ("The Miller's Tale")
- Catullus 85
- Child Ballads
- Death by Childbirth (#170: "The Death of Queen Jane")
- Even the Guys Want Him (#100: "Willie O'Winsbury")
- Impossible Task (#2: "Scarborough Fair")
- White Stallion (#39: "Tam Lin")
- A Year and a Day (#78: "The Unquiet Gravet")
The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Horse and His Boy
- The Magician's Nephew
- The Last Battle
- Ciaphas Cain
- Boarding Pod (The Emperor's Finest)
- Commissar Cap
- Fake Ultimate Hero (For the Emperor)
- Fire Keeps It Dead (Death or Glory)
- Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious (The Greater Good)
- Painful Persona (Cain's Last Stand)
- Punishment Detail ("Sector Thirteen")
- "Shut Up!" Gunshot (Caves of Ice)
- Unequal Pairing
- Clockwork Century
- Drill Tank (Boneshaker)
- Cockatiel x Chameleon
- Codex Alera
- Achievements in Ignorance
- Follow the Chaos
- Lethal Chef (First Lord's Fury)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book
- Company, Max Barry
- A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Conan the Barbarian
- The Phoenix on the Sword
- The Scarlet Citadel
- Black Colossus
- Xuthal of the Dusk
- The Vale of Lost Women
- ''The Devil in Iron"
- The Hour of the Dragon
Constance Verity
The Cosmere
- Crush (Richard Siken)
- The Crystal World
Cthulhu Mythos
- General
- The Call of Cthulhu
- "The Cats of Ulthar"
- "Dagon"
- The Dreams in the Witch House
- The Dunwich Horror
- The Return Of The Sorcerer
- The Shadow over Innsmouth
D to G
- Daily Life in Eighteenth Century England
- Danse Macabre (Stephen King)
- The Dark Angel
Dave Barry
- Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
- Dave Barry Slept Here
- Dave Barry Turns 40
- Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
- I'll Mature When I'm Dead
- The Decameron
- All Women Are Lustful
- Sexy Soaked Shirt (Day X, Story VI)
- The Devil's Dictionary
- Admiration Tropes
- Aging Tropes
- The All-Concealing "I"
- April Fools' Day
- Armed with Canon
- Auction
- Babies, Babies Everywhere
- Cuckold Horns
- Fair-Weather Friend
- God of Alcohol
- The Hermit
- Holy Halo
- Hot Witch
- Humans Are Morons
- Idle Hands
- New Friend Envy
- Our Gargoyles Rock
- Sleazy Politician
- Tropes in Shining Armor
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Rodrick Rules
- Cabin Fever
- Dog Days
- Hot Mess
- The Diary of Iris Vaughan
- Different Seasons
- Novella note
- The Divine Comedy
- Beast with a Human Face (Inferno)
- Door of Doom (Inferno)
- Garden of Eden (Purgatorio)
- Does This Cape Make Me Look Fat?
- Do What You Will
- Down From Ten
- The Dresden Files
- Storm Front (Dresden Files)
- Blood Rites
- Dead Beat
- Proven Guilty
- White Night (2007)
- Small Favor
- Turn Coat (2009)
- Changes
- Ghost Story (2011)
- Cold Days
- Skin Game
- Side Jobs
- A Dry, Quiet War
Dune
- Earthlight (Arthur C. Clarke)
- Einstein's Monsters
- Eisenhorn
- Light Is Not Good (Hereticus)
- The Elements of Style
The Elenium
- Domes of Fire
- The Hidden City
- Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats
- Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Expanse
- Eyes of the Calculor
- The Eye of the Storm
- Father Goose: His Book
- Final Crisis Aftermath: DANCE
- "Fire and Ice" (Robert Frost)
- Firebird Trilogy
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (Fusion Fire)
- The First Law
- It Gets Easier (Before They Are Hanged)
- Male Frontal Nudity
- First Man In: Leading from the Front
- Foundation Series
- Anti-Hero (Foundation (1951): "The Traders")
- City Planet (Foundation (1951))
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure (Foundation and Empire)
- Metal-Poor Planet ('Foundation (1951)'')
- Space Sector ('Foundation (1951)'': "The Mayors")
- Standard Time Units (Second Foundation: "Search by the Foundation")
- Xanatos Speed Chess (Foundation (1951))
- "Foxfire"
- Fragile Things
- Free Will (and Other Compulsions)
- Ghostweight
- Good Omens
- Anti-Anti-Christ
- Don't Try This at Home
- Elvis Lives
- Flock of Wolves
- Friendly Enemy
- Good Is Not Dumb
- Heaven Versus Hell
- Hot Consort
- Lost Superweapon
- Mystical City Planning
- Old British Money
- Omniscient Morality License
- Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
- Standard '50s Father
- Stark-Naked Sorcery
- Tempting Apple
- Weather Dissonance
- Gotrek & Felix
- Spiteful Spit (Dragonslayer)
- "The Grave of the Hundred Head"
- Guardians of Dawn
- Guardians of Dawn: Zhara
H to P
- Heralds of Valdemar
- Hereditary Twinhood (Out of the Deep)
- Safety in Indifference (Magic's Pawn)
- His Dark Materials
- Outlaw (Northern Lights)
- Spies are Despicable (The Amber Spyglass)
- A History of the American People
- His True Arte of Defence
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
- Animorphism
- Community-Threatening Construction
- Conveniently Close Planet
- Cool and Unusual Punishment
- Cool, but Stupid
- The Discovery of Fire
- Eek, a Mouse!!
- Encyclopedia Exposita
- Huge Rider, Tiny Mount
- Humiliating Wager
- Narrating the Obvious
- Reality Is Out to Lunch
- Restricted Rescue Operation
- Robot
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
- Smart Cetaceans
- Space Stories
- Stock Star Systems
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Mostly Harmless
- Hocus Pocus
- The Hollywood History of the World
- Honor Harrington
- Anti-Metagame Character (The Honor of the Queen)
- Embarrassing Statue (Ashes of Victory)
- Oblivious to Hatred (The Shadow of Saganami)
- Horrible Histories
- Not Too Dead to Save the Day (The Horrible Histories Rules of War)
- Horus Heresy
- Forceful Faceplant (Angel Exterminatus)
- God-Emperor
- Sane Boss, Psycho Henchmen
- Transformation of the Possessed (Path of Heaven)
- How to Be a Villain
- How to Make Love to a Woman
- Ignition
- "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon"
- InCryptid
- Instant Turn-Off ("Waking Up in Vegas" )
- Magic or Psychic? (Calculated Risks)
- Raised by the Supernatural ("Swamp Bromeliad")
- Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology
- The Invention of Tradition
- Jack Blank
- Once-Green Mars (Jack Blank: The Accidental Hero)
- Sacrificial Planet (Jack Blank: The Accidental Hero)
James Bond
Jeeves and Wooster
- "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy"
- Thank You, Jeeves
- Right Ho, Jeeves
- The Jellyfish Bus
- John Barleycorn
- Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
- Ontological Inertia (Johnny and the Bomb)
- Porting Disaster (Only You Can Save Mankind)
- The Jungle Book
- No Peripheral Vision
- Noble Wolf (The Second Jungle Book: "The Law of the Jungle")
- Staring Down Cthulhu
- Just Mercy
- "Just So" Stories
- Constantly Curious ("The Elephant's Child")
- Ring of Power ("The Butterfly That Stamped")
The Kingkiller Chronicle
- Known Space
- Alien Arts Are Appreciated ("The Borderland of Sol")
- Informed Poverty ("A Relic of the Empire")
- Weaponized Exhaust (Ringworld)
- The Lays of Ancient Rome
- The League of Peoples 'Verse
- The Gadfly (Expendable)
- Letters on Familiar Matters
- Letters on the English
- Vachel Lindsay
- Literary Tours in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
- Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids
- The Long Earth
- Genocide Backfire (The Long Mars)
- The Long Rain
- The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
- Lover Eternal
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
- Extra Parent Conception (The Hammer of Thor)
- The Man in the Ceiling
- Mask Market
- The Masquerade
- Crash the Economy (The Traitor Baru Cormorant)
- Matador Series
- Bartender Confidant (The Man Who Never Missed)
- Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese
- The Military Experience in the Age of Reason
- The Minpins
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Invisible Streaker (Hollow City)
- Island of Mystery
- Nothing but Skin and Bones (Hollow City)
- Our Homunculi Are Different
- "Moon Moon Moon"
- The Mortal Instruments
- Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids (City of Lost Souls)
- The Mourning Bride
- Murders That Baffled the Experts
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
- Reincarnate in Another World (note: the quote comes from the dub of the anime)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Airstrip One
- All Nations Are Superpowers
- Attraction to Outliers
- Big Brother Is Watching
- Brainwashed
- Cruelty by Feet
- Doublethink
- Dystopia Justifies the Means
- Internal Retcon
- Malevolent Mugshot
- The Metric System Is Here to Stay
- Motive Misidentification
- My Girl Is a Slut
- No Sex Allowed
- Orwellian Retcon
- Room 101
- Same Surname Means Related
- Secret Police
- Sinister Scraping Sound
- Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
- Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom
- Swarm of Rats
- Symbolically Broken Object
- This Index is a Real Pain
- Thoughtcrime
- Un-person
- The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Art
- No New Baby
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- One Man's Meat
- The Open Window
- Orthodoxy
- The Overcoat
- Oxford Girl
- "Ozymandias"
- Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regain'd
- Paul Clifford
- The Perpetual Curate
- The Physics of Superheroes
- "The Picture in the House"
Prince Lindworm
- The Psychology of Science
Q to Z
- The Railway Series
- Don't Split Us Up (#15: The Twin Engines)
- High Speed Rail (#31: Gordon the High-Speed Engine)
- Ramona Quimby
- Morning Sickness (Ramona Forever)
- RCN
- Fantasy Conflict Counterpart (from David Drake's foreword to When the Tide Rises)
- Truce Trickery (The Far Side of the Stars)
- The Rebel
- Redwall
- Brother–Sister Team (Marlfox)
- Perilous Old Fool (Triss)
- Wicked Weasel (Loamhedge)
- Reign of the Seven Spellblades
- Cross-Dimensional Conflict (volume 5)
- Embarrassing Relative Teacher (volume 2)
- Evolutionary Pressure Cooker (volume 10)
- Fire Stolen from the Gods (volume 5)
- ObnoxiousInLaws.Literature (volume 10)
- Opening-Up Moment (volume 13)
- OvershadowedByAwesome.Literature (volume 1)
- PayEvilUntoEvil.Literature (volume 1)
- Purification Bathing (volume 1)
- Restrained Revenge (volume 1)
- Superpower-Negating Disability (volume 3)
Remembrance of Earth's Past
- The Return of Don Quixote
- Revelation Space Series
- Eldritch Starship (Redemption Ark)
- "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
- "The Road Not Taken" (Turtledove)
- "Rosso Malpelo"
- Samson Agonistes
- Santa's Secret
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Busman's Holiday (The Penultimate Peril)
- The End (The End)
- Putting On My Thinking Cap
- Self-Induced Allergic Reaction (The Wide Window)
- Theme Initials
- Shampoo Planet
Sherlock Holmes
- A Study in Scarlet
- The Sign of the Four
- A Scandal In Bohemia
- The Adventure of Black Peter
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band
- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
- The Adventure of Silver Blaze
- The Yellow Face
- The Final Problem
- The Adventure of the Empty House
- The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
- His Last Bow
- The Three Garridebs
- The Adventure of the Creeping Man
- The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
- The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
- Signal To Noise
- "Simplicity"
- The Silver Stallion
- "The Simple Art of Murder"
- Skulduggery Pleasant
- CombatPragmatist.Literature (Playing with Fire)
- Immortality Bisexuality
- Power High
- Schematized Prop
- Soldier's Heart
- Spenser
- Cultured Badass (The Widening Gyre)
- "Spring and Fall"
- The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
- Steal This Book
- The Steel Bonnets
- Elopement
- Strega
- The Superhero Handbook
- Survivor Dogs
- Automobiles Are Alien (Darkness Falls)
- Coup de Grâce
- Naming Ceremony (The Broken Path)
- Those Wily Coyotes
- Wound Licking (The Empty City)
- Syl [A Slime Monster Evolution LitRPG]
- Tales of Old Japan
- Tao Te Ching
- Technic History
- What the Romans Have Done for Us (Day of their Return)
- Temeraire
- Mildly Military (His Majesty's Dragon)
- Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command
- Them, Adventures with Extremists
- Theory of the Leisure Class
- "The Three-Decker"
- Thursday Next
- Boring Return Journey (One of Our Thursdays is Missing)
- "Tom o' Bedlam"
The Trojan Cycle
- The Tropes of Fantasy Fiction
- The Underland Chronicles
- Bond Creatures (Gregor the Overlander)
- Humanlike Animal Aging (Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane)
- Uplift
- Animate Inanimate Object (Sundiver)
- The Vampire Chronicles
- God and Satan Are Both Jerks (Memnoch the Devil)
- The Very Silly Mayor
- Vorkosigan Saga
- Caligula's Horse
- Exceeded the Goal (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance)
- The Good Chancellor (Cryoburn)
- Marriage Before Romance (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance)
- ReassignedToAntarctica.Literature (A Civil Campaign)
- The Resenter (Mirror Dance)
- Too Kinky to Torture (Mirror Dance)
- Xanatos Gambit (The Vor Game)
- Walden
- The War Against the Chtorr
- Planimal
- Supermodel Strut (A Day for Damnation)
- The War at Troy
- War of the Spider Queen
- Poke in the Third Eye (Condemnation)
- Warrior Cats
- Deathbed Promotion
- Follow in My Footsteps
- No Animosity in the Afterlife
- Sleepy Depressive (Moth Flight's Vision)
- Wealth of Words
- Well World
- Artificial World (Exiles at the Well of Souls)
- We the Living
- Winner Take All
- Wiz Biz
- Fainting Seer (Wizard's Bane)
- World of the Five Gods
- Pilgrimage (Paladin of Souls)
- Worldwar
- Alien Catnip (In the Balance)
- Aliens Never Invented Democracy (In the Balance)
- Peace Conference (Striking the Balance)
- You Are Happy
- The Young Immigrants
