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Anime & Manga
Fan Works
- How to Build a Bridge in Eight Thousand Easy Steps, which is the sequel to Displaced (The Legend of Zelda)
- A Game of Cat and Cat: The second chapter's Epigraph is from the Fictional Document How to Survive the End of the World:
"Justice is an integral pillar of society; one does not comprehend how important it is for wrongs to be righted until they have no one to depend upon save themselves. When someone else inevitably attempts to fill that void, endeavor to aid them in their mission. However, know that they are just as human and fallible as you, and that power will corrupt them. It is your responsibility to both aid and check them."
-How to Survive the End of the World, by Kazuya Kawamoto. Chapter 10: Living with Other People. The rest of the passage was inarticulate ranting about how he never deserved to be arrested, not even for taking bribes. - How To Drill Your Way Through Your Problems
Films — Animated
Film — Live-Action
- How to Be
- How to Be a Serial Killer
- How To Be Single
- How to Build a Better Boy
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising
- How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
- How to Make an American Quilt
- How to Marry a Millionaire
- How to Murder Your Wife
- How to Rob a Bank
- How to Sleep
- How to Steal a Dog: A family comedy in which a precocious 10-year-old girl, whose family is homeless and living in a van, gets the idea to kidnap a rich lady's dog and return it so she can collect the reward money.
- How to Steal a Million
- How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties
- Serial Killing 4 Dummys falls into the same general category.
Literature
- John Barth's novel The End of the Road was originally going to be called What To Do Until the Doctor Comes, but the publisher was concerned it would be mistaken for a book on first aid.
- The Goosebumps book, How to Kill a Monster. From the same series, a variation in How I Learned to Fly
- How NOT to Write a Novel
- How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis
- How to Be a Superhero
- How to Be Comfortable in Your Own Feathers
- How To Eat Fried Worms
- How to Lead a Life of Crime
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu.
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is the title of an obscure 1937 book, a 2001 memoir, and a 2008 film based on the memoir. Not to be confused with Carnegie's book.
- How To Stop Time
- How to Succeed in Evil is titled this way.
- How to Survive a Horror Movie
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties
- How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
- Every book in the How to Train Your Dragon series except for Book 6, A Hero's Guide To Deadly Dragons.
- Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People line of books. Possibly the Trope Maker.
- A slight variation: So You Want to Be a Wizard, the title of both the first book in a series by Diane Duane and the in-universe textbook the main character finds.
- There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns: The chapter, "How to be a Dungeon"
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- There's a The Zack Files book called How To Speak Dolphin in Three Easy Lessons.
Live Action TV
- How Not to Live Your Life
- How to Be Indie. Additionally, the Idiosyncratic Episode Naming means that every episode is titled "How To (do peculiar thing relevant to the episode)".
- How to Get Away with Murder
- How to Irritate People
- How to Make It in America
- How to Rock
- How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
- How To With John Wilson
- Monty Python's Flying Circus:
- Sketch "How Not to be Seen"
- "Episode 3: How to Recognize Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away"
''"Number one: The larch. The. Larch."
Music
- Variation: The Byrds' "So You Wanna Be a Rock-n-Roll Star"
- "How to Save a Life" by The Fray.
- How to Operate with a Blown Mind by Lo Fidelity All-Stars
- "How to Say Goodbye" by The Magnetic Fields
- "How to Be A Heartbreaker" by Marina Diamandis.
- How to Steal a Jet Fighter by The Prodigy
- "How to Handle a Rope" by Queens of the Stone Age
- "How to Disappear Completely" by Radiohead, from Kid A.
- Another variation: "50 Ways to Say Goodbye" by Train.
- The U2 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
- "How to Fight Loneliness" by Wilco
Radio
- Every episode of The Burkiss Way: "Peel Bananas The Burkiss Way", "Become a Rock Star the Burkiss Way", "Discover Gravity the Burkiss Way", ...
Theatre
Video Games
- How to Survive
- Recettear: The Japanese subtitle translates to "How to run an item shop".
Visual Novels
Web Animation
Webcomics
- Every Basic Instructions strip is titled this way.
- How To Be A Mind Reaver
- How to be a Werewolf
Web Original
Web Videos
- How To Fix Kingdom Hearts
- Pikasprey: Some videos, such as: "How to Ruin Koga's Pokemon Crystal Battle".
Western Animation
