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* The [[Banned in China|famously banned]] erotic novel ''[[Fanny Hill]], or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'' by [[John Cleland]].
* ''[[Cecilia]], or Memoirs of an Heiress'' by [[Frances Burney]].
* ''[http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthulhu I, Cthulhu]; or, What's a Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing in a Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W)?'', by [[Neil Gaiman]]
* The Thomas Hobbes book ''Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil''.
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]], or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death''
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* Referenced in ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', where the [[Discworld]] version of [[Shakespeare]], Hwel the Playwright, has written a comedy called ''A Wizard of Sorts, or: Please Yourself'' - the subtitle parodies the subtitle of ''Twelfth Night'' and the actual title of ''As You Like It''.
* [[Wil Wheaton]]'s short story ''The Saga of Spongebob Vega$pant$ (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love [[Star Trek]])''.
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] was famously fond of subtitles, but the only
* ''The Sea Cook, or [[Treasure Island]]''.
* ''[[Varney the Vampire|Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood]]''
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== Music, or: The Rhythm's Gonna Get Ya ==
* Most any time part of a song title is in parentheses, this means that the part included in the parentheses is an alternate title.
** Fairly often when this happens, a song already has a title, but the artist (or the studio) realizes fans call the song by another name, and hence use the alternate title as recognition
* ''Every'' song on [[Radiohead]]'s album ''Hail to the Thief'' (including the album itself, which is actually titled "Hail to the Thief, or, The Gloaming"). For example, singles "There There" and "2+2=5" are really called "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)" and "2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)". While the secondary titles are rarely ever used, the tracklist on the back cover includes both, and the lyrics in the liner notes ''only'' use the secondary titles.
* The Incredible String Band's 1967 album ''The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion''.
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