Trope Namers/Literature

Books are also a good source for trope titles. If you read about them here, there's a good chance you'll see them pop up in other media.

By Author's Last Name

 * Adams, Douglas
 * The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
 * The Alleged Car
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Bits of Me Keep Passing Out
 * Insignificant Little Blue Planet
 * Puff of Logic
 * Reality Is Out to Lunch
 * Life, the Universe and Everything
 * Somebody Else's Problem
 * The Meaning of Liff
 * Zeerust


 * Applegate, Katherine
 * Animorphism


 * Asimov, Isaac
 * "Three Laws"-Compliant


 * Banks, Iain
 * Excessive Steam Syndrome
 * Outside Context Villain


 * Barrie, J.M. (Peter Pan)
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe
 * Never Grew Up


 * Barry, Dave
 * Adjacent to This Complete Breakfast
 * A Good Name for a Rock Band


 * Beecher Stowe, Harriet (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
 * Uncle Tomfoolery


 * Benet, Stephen Vincent (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
 * Jury of the Damned


 * Blake, William
 * Fearful Symmetry


 * Bradbury, Ray
 * Butterfly of Doom ("A Sound of Thunder")


 * Brontë, Charlotte
 * Bertha in The Attic (Jane Eyre)


 * Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
 * It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Paul Clifford)


 * Carroll, Lewis (Alices Adventures in Wonderland)
 * Cheshire Cat Grin
 * Down the Rabbit Hole
 * Up the Real Rabbit Hole
 * Go Among Mad People
 * The Mad Hatter
 * Off with His Head


 * de Cervantes, Miguel (Don Quixote)
 * The Dulcinea Effect
 * No Mere Windmill
 * The Rocinante
 * Windmill Crusader
 * Windmill Political


 * Chandler Harris, Joel
 * Briar Patching (Bre'r Rabbit stories)


 * Christie, Agatha
 * Death in the Clouds
 * Ten Little Murder Victims
 * Thriller on the Express


 * Clarke, Arthur C.
 * Clarke's Third Law


 * Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
 * Willing Suspension of Disbelief


 * Collodi, Carlo (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
 * Become a Real Boy
 * Pinocchio Nose
 * Pinocchio Syndrome


 * Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
 * Lost World
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * Inspector Lestrade
 * Sherlock Scan
 * The Watson
 * Watsonian Versus Doylist (compare Arthur Conan Doyle)


 * Congreve, William
 * Woman Scorned


 * Crosley, Sloane
 * I Was Told There Would Be Cake


 * Dahl, Roald
 * The Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)


 * Dick, Philip K.
 * Do Androids Dream?
 * Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap


 * Dickens, Charles
 * Oliver Twist
 * The Artful Dodger
 * The Fagin
 * A Christmas Carol
 * Dead to Begin With
 * Jacob Marley Apparel
 * Jacob Marley Warning
 * The Scrooge
 * Yet Another Christmas Carol


 * Donne, John
 * Catch a Falling Star
 * For Doom the Bell Tolls


 * Dumas, Alexandre
 * Man in the Iron Mask


 * Ellison, Harlan
 * (I Have No Mouth) And I Must Scream (I Have No Mouth exists, but as a redirect)


 * Gibson, William
 * Raygun Gothic (from "The Gernsback Continuum")


 * Goldman, William (The Princess Bride)
 * Farm Boy
 * I Am Not Left-Handed
 * My Name Is Inigo Montoya
 * Only Mostly Dead
 * To the Pain


 * The Brothers Grimm
 * Grimmification
 * Trail of Bread Crumbs ("Hansel and Gretel")


 * Heinlein, Robert
 * Bug War (Starship Troopers)


 * Herbert, Frank (Dune)
 * Worm Sign


 * Highsmith, Patricia
 * Strangers on a Train Plot Murder


 * Hope, Anthony
 * Prisoner of Zenda Exit


 * Hugo, Victor
 * Inspector Javert (Les Misérables)


 * Irving, Washington
 * Horror Struck ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
 * Rip Van Winkle ("Rip van Winkle")


 * Juvenal
 * Bread and Circuses
 * Who Watches the Watchmen?


 * Kipling, Rudyard
 * Just-So Story (Just So Stories)
 * More Deadly Than the Male
 * White Man's Burden


 * LeGuin, Ursula K.
 * Subspace Ansible


 * Leiber, Fritz
 * Bazaar of the Bizarre


 * Leinster, Murray
 * First Contact


 * L'Engle, Madeline
 * Circle of Extinction


 * Lovecraft, H.P.
 * Cosmic Horror Story
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu??
 * And related tropes.
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Go Mad from the Revelation
 * Through the Eyes of Madness
 * Lovecraft Country
 * Lovecraftian Superpower
 * Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth


 * Lowry, Lois
 * Released to Elsewhere (The Giver)


 * Lyall, Gavin
 * Hunting the Most Dangerous Game ("The Most Dangerous Game")


 * Melville, Herman
 * First-Person Peripheral Narrator was formerly known as The Ishmael (Moby Dick)


 * Milne, A. A. (Winnie the Pooh)
 * The Eeyore


 * Milton, John
 * Red Right Hand (Paradise Lost)


 * Moorcock, Michael
 * The Multiverse


 * Nabokov, Vladimir (Lolita)
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * Lolicon


 * Nietzsche, Friedrich
 * Eternal Recurrence
 * God Is Dead
 * He Who Fights Monsters
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * Ubermensch

(Ringworld)
 * Niven, Larry
 * All the Myriad Ways
 * Call a Rabbit a Smeerp
 * Finagle's Law
 * The Magic Goes Away
 * Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
 * Ringworld Planet
 * Sufficiently Analyzed Magic


 * Orwell, George (1984)
 * Airstrip One
 * Big Brother Is Employing You
 * Big Brother Is Watching
 * Room 101
 * Two Plus Torture Makes Five
 * Unperson


 * Plato
 * Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking (Apologia)


 * Pope, Alexander
 * Hope Springs Eternal


 * Pratchett, Terry
 * Fertile Feet
 * Hello, Insert Name Here
 * Klatchian Coffee
 * Lies to Children
 * Theory of Narrative Causality
 * Thunderbolt Iron
 * Überwald
 * Un-Equal Rites
 * Vetinari Job Security
 * Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma


 * Rodgers, Mary
 * Freaky Friday


 * Rowling, J.K.
 * Draco in Leather Pants
 * Golden Snitch
 * He's Just Hiding (fanon term)
 * Hufflepuff House
 * Muggle Foster Parents
 * Muggles
 * Pensieve Flashback
 * Ron the Death Eater (another fanon term)
 * Secret Keeper
 * Wronski Feint
 * You Are With Me


 * Shelley, Percy Bysshe
 * Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair ("Ozymandias")


 * Simmons, Dan
 * Merlin Sickness (Hyperion)


 * Snicket, Lemony (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
 * Lemony Narrator
 * Snicket Warning Label


 * Stevenson, Robert Louis
 * Jekyll and Hyde


 * Thompson, Hunter S.
 * Fur and Loathing


 * Thomas, Dylan
 * Do Not Go Gentle


 * Tolkien, John R.R.
 * Army of the Dead
 * Black Speech
 * Dug Too Deep
 * Gollum Made Me Do It
 * Gondor Calls for Aid
 * Heavy Mithril
 * Hobbits
 * Kneel Before Frodo
 * Loving a Shadow
 * Mithril
 * Mordor
 * Walk Into Mordor (film version)
 * Mouth of Sauron
 * Mythopoeia
 * Ring of Power
 * Short Cuts Make Long Delays
 * Speak Friend and Enter
 * You Shall Not Pass


 * Twain, Mark
 * Fence Painting (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)


 * Vance, Jack
 * Vancian Magic


 * Virgil
 * Watching Troy Burn


 * Weber, David
 * State Sec (Honor Harrington universe)


 * Wodehouse, P. G.
 * The Jeeves


 * Wright, Sylvia
 * Lady Mondegreen
 * Mondegreen


 * Wynne Jones, Diana
 * Vestigial Empire (The Tough Guide to Fantasyland)

By Title

 * One Thousand and One Nights
 * Scheherazade Gambit (alt. title: Arabian Nights Gambit)


 * 1984
 * Airstrip One
 * Big Brother Is Your Friend
 * Big Brother Is Watching
 * Room 101
 * Two Plus Torture Makes Five
 * Unperson


 * The Adventures of Pinocchio
 * Pinocchio Syndrome


 * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 * Fence Painting


 * Aesop's Fables
 * An Aesop
 * Androcles' Lion
 * Country Mouse
 * City Mouse
 * The Farmer and the Viper
 * Honest Axe
 * Sour Grapes Tropes


 * Alices Adventures in Wonderland
 * Cheshire Cat Grin
 * Go Among Mad People
 * The Mad Hatter


 * Animal Farm
 * Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better


 * Animorphs
 * Animorphism


 * "Beauty and The Beast"
 * Beast and Beauty


 * Br'er Rabbit stories
 * Briar Patching


 * Conan the Barbarian
 * The Red Sonja


 * Conqueror
 * Genghis Gambit


 * Sloane Crosley
 * I Was Told There Would Be Cake


 * Curious George
 * Curious as a Monkey


 * Death Takes a Holiday
 * Death Takes a Holiday


 * Death World
 * Death World


 * The Devil and Daniel Webster
 * Jury of the Damned


 * Discworld series
 * Fertile Feet
 * Hello, Insert Name Here
 * Thunderbolt Iron
 * Überwald
 * Un-Equal Rites
 * Vetinari Job Security
 * Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma


 * Doctor Dolittle
 * The Doctor Dolittle


 * Doña Bárbara
 * Mister Danger


 * Dracula
 * The Renfield
 * Van Helsing Hate Crimes


 * Dune
 * Worm Sign


 * The Dying Earth
 * Vancian Magic


 * The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
 * Frying Pan of Doom


 * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
 * Fur and Loathing
 * Goddamned Bats


 * The Giver
 * Released to Elsewhere


 * Harry Potter
 * Draco in Leather Pants
 * He's Just Hiding (fanon term)
 * Hold Your Hippogriffs
 * Hufflepuff House
 * Muggle Foster Parents
 * Muggles
 * Pensieve Flashback
 * Ron the Death Eater (another fanon term)
 * Secret Keeper
 * Wronski Feint


 * Heather Has Two Mommies
 * Has Two Mommies


 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Reality Is Out to Lunch


 * Honor Harrington
 * State Sec


 * The Hustler
 * The Minnesota Fats


 * Hyperion by Dan Simmons
 * Merlin Sickness


 * Illuminatus!
 * Bavarian Fire Drill


 * Jane Eyre
 * Bertha in The Attic


 * The King of Elfland's Daughter
 * Thunderbolt Iron


 * Lensman
 * Lensman Arms Race


 * Life, the Universe and Everything
 * Somebody Else's Problem


 * Little Miss series
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Little Miss Snarker


 * Lolita
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * Lolicon
 * Token Loli


 * The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
 * The Alleged Car


 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Army of the Dead
 * Black Speech
 * Dug Too Deep
 * Gollum Made Me Do It
 * Gondor Calls for Aid
 * Heavy Mithril
 * Hobbits
 * Loving a Shadow
 * Mithril
 * Mordor
 * Walk Into Mordor (film version)
 * Ring of Power
 * Short Cuts Make Long Delays
 * Speak Friend and Enter
 * You Shall Not Pass


 * The Meaning of Liff
 * Zeerust


 * Les Misérables
 * Inspector Javert


 * "Little Red Riding Hood"
 * Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!
 * Little Dead Riding Hood


 * Old Yeller
 * Shoot the Dog


 * Metamorphoses by Ovid
 * Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking


 * Paradise Lost
 * Red Right Hand


 * Peter Pan
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe
 * Never Grew Up


 * Pollyanna
 * The Pollyanna


 * The Princess Bride
 * Farm Boy
 * I Am Not Left-Handed
 * My Name Is Inigo Montoya
 * Only Mostly Dead
 * To the Pain


 * The Prisoner of Zenda
 * Prisoner of Zenda Exit
 * Ruritania


 * "Rapunzel"
 * Rapunzel Hair


 * A Series of Unfortunate Events
 * Lemony Narrator
 * Snicket Warning Label


 * Dr. Seuss
 * The Grinch
 * I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
 * Red Fish, Blue Fish


 * Sherlock Holmes
 * Inspector Lestrade
 * Sherlock Scan
 * The Watson
 * Watsonian Versus Doylist (compare Arthur Conan Doyle)


 * The Silence of the Lambs
 * A Glass of Chianti
 * Hannibal Lecture
 * Shut UP, Hannibal


 * "Snow White"
 * Fairest of Them All


 * A Sound of Thunder
 * Butterfly of Doom


 * Starship Troopers
 * Bug War


 * The Stepford Wives
 * Stepford Smiler
 * Stepford Suburbia


 * Strangers On A Train
 * Strangers on a Train Plot Murder


 * The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
 * Vestigial Empire


 * Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * Uncle Tomfoolery


 * Winnie the Pooh
 * The Eeyore

Print Magazines

 * National Geographic
 * National Geographic Nudity


 * Playboy
 * I Read It for the Articles
 * Playboy Bunny

Newspapers

 * Daily Mail
 * Political Correctness Gone Mad


 * The Sun (UK)
 * Page Three Stunna

Writing Guides

 * Turkey City Lexicon
 * Call a Rabbit a Smeerp
 * Call a Smeerp a Rabbit
 * Call a Hit Point a Smeerp
 * Said Bookism