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{{trope}}
{{quote|"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 (magazine)|TIME.com]]''', [http://entertainment.time.com/2011/01/24/top-10-books-with-one-letter-titles/ 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 [[:Category:Short Titles|Short Titles]] and [[Letter Motif]].
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* ''A'' is an album, a [[Jethro Tull]] one.
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* F is a series of trucks made by Ford.
* ''G.'' is a movie, one that's quite "grand".
* H. is a hit by a "[[
* ''i'' was a network, now ION TV.
* j is a label that's owned by Sony.
* ''K'' is a record, Kula Shaker twirled.
* [[L: Change the World
* ''[[
* ''[[N]]'' is a game where a ninja gets glory.
* ''O'' is ''[[Othello]]'', except {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|in high school!]]}}
* P was [[Johnny Depp]]'s band. Pretty cool.
* ''[[Q
* ''R.'' is a CD that [[R. Kelly|Kelly]] did make.
* [[S]] was a short-living group of K-Pop.
* [[Mr. T|T]] is a Mister that cancer can't stop.
* ''U'' is by [[
* ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' has an alien metaphor. [[Sarcasm Mode|Great.]]
* ''W.'''s a biopic of [[George W. Bush|George Bush Two]].
* ''[[X
* ''[[Y:
* ''[[Z (
More examples below, except not in verse.
▲=== 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 [[
*** [[The Clock Crew]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100915210350/http://www.clockcrew.cc/clockopedia/alphabet_movies 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 [[Image Boards|/b/]].
* ''C'': A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
** An anime, fully titled ''[[C
* ''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 [[
** 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 ''[[British Newspapers|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" (
** 'O' is also the title of a 2006 Eiko Shimamiya Album
* ''[[Q]]''
* ''S'' is the US title of a [[Boys Love Genre]] [[Light Novel]] [[Esu
* ''S.'' is a 1988 [[John Updike]] novel
* ''U'': One of the songs by
* ''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]].
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** 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 (
** There's also a Polish novel titled ''Z.'', with the dot.<ref>By Mieczysław Porębski</ref>
* ''[[
* ? is an episode in the second season of ''[[
* ''[[
* 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 Villain|Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains trio]] call the planned operation"Y": "so that nobody would guess it".
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