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"You write a book, you get to the end, and then it's like—meh, I'll just pick one of the letters of the alphabet for the title." —TIME.com, Top 10 Books with One-Letter Titles

Related to One-Letter Name, works with a One-Letter Title are exactly that: works that are titled with a single letter, of whatever script.

See also Short Titles and Letter Motif.

Examples of One-Letter Title include:

26 Latin Alphabet Examples

• A is an album, a Jethro Tull one.
• b is a tabloid by the Baltimore Sun.
• C is a language, that's good with runtime.
• D is a Bollywood film about crime.
• E! is a network for gossip when bored.
• F is a series of trucks made by Ford.
• G. is a movie, one that's quite "grand".
• H. is a hit by a "Tool"-ish rock band.
• i was a network, now ION TV.
• j is a label that's owned by Sony.
• K is a record, Kula Shaker twirled.
• L titles a film, while Changing The World.
• M is a picture that stars Peter Lorre.
• N is a game where a ninja gets glory.
• O is Othello, except in high school!
• P was Johnny Depp's band. Pretty cool.
• Q is a flick about a flying snake.
• R. is a CD that Kelly did make.
• S was a short-living group of K-Pop.
• T is a Mister that cancer can't stop.
• U is by Pearl Jam, released in 'nine-eight.
• V has an alien metaphor. Great.
• W.'s a biopic of George Bush Two.
• X is a manga that CLAMP did debut.
• Y is a comic about the Last Man.
• Z ends our list with a big junta ban.

More examples below, except not in verse. And because they are not, it is so much better.

More Latin Alphabet Examples

• a: A tripped-out conversation novel by Andy Warhol.
  • A band who is known for their song Nothing.
  • A song by Knorkator which consists of the four verses "A", "A", "A", and "A".
    • The Clock Crew has covered them all. The most notable one though is B, the very flash movie responsible for the Clock Crew's existence in the first place.
• Do not ever mention /b/.
• C: A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
  • An anime, fully titled C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control.
• D: A horror game released in 1995.
  • A French BD about vampires (guess what the D stands for).
• G: John Berger's Booker Prize winning novel about "G", a Don Juan-like figure.
• H: An Elizabeth Shepard found-document novel about an autistic boy's letters from summer camp.
• I: A song by Black Sabbath. Kiss also did one, but the fans won't admit it. Neither will the band, who even forgot how to sing it.
  • Also a rather good EP by Meshuggah.
  • And a side project of Immortal's frontman Abbath.
  • And a Bad Brains song.
• i: A news-digest of The Independent.
  • Also, an album by The Magnetic Fields, where appropriately enough, all the song titles start with "I".
• L is a South Korean movie.
• M is a non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
• N is also a short story by Stephen King.
  • Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
• O: the title of Oprah's magazine, a Cirque du Soleil show, and an anonymously penned novel about the 2008 presidential election.
  • 'O' is also the title of a 2006 Eiko Shimamiya Album
• Q was an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. q (note the capitalization) is the same show on the same network, but hosted by Shad Candy Palmater Tom Power.
• S is the US title of a Boys Love Genre Light Novel series
• S. is a 1988 John Updike novel
• U: One of the songs by W.A.S.P.
• V is also Thomas Pynchon's first novel, and despite all the other weird things in it, it is decidedly alien-free.
• W: Georges Perec's memoir of his time as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
• X: a science fiction space simulator series by Egosoft.
  • A Japan only Game Boy game.
  • An episode of Teen Titans.
  • A Los Angeles Punk Rock band from The Eighties.
  • An Australian punk band, also from The Eighties.
  • A Def Leppard album.
  • An instrumental song by the Red Crayola.
  • Also how X Japan called themselves before going international.
• Y: The first album by British band The Pop Group.
• Z: A real-time strategy game by the Bitmap Brothers.
  • There's also a Polish novel titled Z., with the dot.

Non-Latin Alphabet Examples

• π.
• ? is an episode in the second season of Lost.
• 9
• Ё (Yo) is a Russian planned hybrid electric car.
• In-universe example: in a soviet comedy "Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика" (Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures), Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains trio call the planned operation"Y": "so that nobody would guess it".