Trope Namers/Literature
 | This page needs some cleaning up to be presentable. These should be identified in "tropenamer" sections on the relevant work pages instead of being listed here. |
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.
Commercial Fiction and Traditional Stories
By Author's Last Name
- Applegate, Katherine
- Banks, Iain
- Barrie, J.M. (Peter Pan)
- Beecher Stowe, Harriet (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
- Benet, Stephen Vincent (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
- Bradbury, Ray
- Butterfly of Doom ("A Sound of Thunder")
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Paul Clifford)
- Burgess, Anthony
- de Cervantes, Miguel (Don Quixote)
- Chandler Harris, Joel
- Briar Patching (Bre'r Rabbit stories)
- Collodi, Carlo (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
- Congreve, William
- Crosley, Sloane
- 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)
- Heinlein, Robert
- Grokking the Horrorshow (Stranger in A Strange Land)
- Bug War (Starship Troopers)
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Hope, Anthony
- Irving, Washington
- Horror Struck ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
- Rip Van Winkle ("Rip van Winkle")
- Leiber, Fritz
- Leinster, Murray
- L'Engle, Madeline
- Lowry, Lois
- 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)
- Plato
- Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking (Apologia)
- Pope, Alexander
- Rodgers, Mary
- 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)
- Thomas, Dylan
- Weber, David
- State Sec (Honor Harrington universe)
- Wright, Sylvia
By Title
- Br'er Rabbit stories
- Sloane Crosley
- Death Takes a Holiday
- Death World
- Discworld series
- Doña Bárbara
- The Dying Earth
- 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
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Lensman
- The Meaning of Liff
- Old Yeller
- Pollyanna
- A Sound of Thunder
- Starship Troopers
- Strangers On A Train
Print Magazines
- National Geographic