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
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By Author's Last Name
- Adams, Douglas
- The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul
- The Alleged Car, and by extension every other trope named by that format, such as
- The Alleged Computer
- The Alleged House
- The Alleged Steed
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Meaning of Liff
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul
- Asimov, Isaac
- "Second Law" My Ass! (references Asimov's Second Law of Robotics)
- Three Laws-Compliant
- Zeroth Law Rebellion
- Beecher Stowe, Harriet (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
- Benet, Stephen Vincent (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
- Browning, Robert
- Grow Old with Me (Rabbi Ben Ezra)
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Paul Clifford)
- Card, Orson Scott
- Hive Queen (Ender's Game)
- You Fight Like a Cow (The Secret of Monkey Island) (Not a book, but he wrote all the insults)
- Chandler Harris, Joel
- Briar Patching (Bre'r Rabbit stories)
- Collodi, Carlo (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
- Congreve, William
- Crosley, Sloane
- Disraeli, Benjamin
- Dark Horse Victory (The Young Duke)
- Furlanetto, Fabio
- Gibson, William
- Raygun Gothic (The Gernsback Continuum)
- Street Samurai (Neuromancer).
- Gipson, Fred (Old Yeller)
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Lach-Szyrma, W.S.
- Martians (Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds)
- Leblanc, Maurice
- Lovecraft, H.P.
- Cosmic Horror Story
- Cthulhumanoid
- Did You Just Index Cthulhu? (and all of its subtropes)
- Eldritch Abomination
- Go Mad from the Revelation
- Through the Eyes of Madness
- Lovecraft Country
- Lovecraft Lite
- Lovecraftian Superpower
- Lovecraftian Tropes
- Starfish Aliens
- Tome of Eldritch Lore
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
- Lyall, Gavin
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game (The Most Dangerous Game)
- The Most Dangerous Video Game (The Most Dangerous Game)
- Moorcock, Michael (The Sundered Worlds)
- Moore, Clement Clarke
- O. Henry
- Gift of the Magi Plot (along with the Bible)
- Rodgers, Mary
- Rowling, J.K.
- Draco in Leather Pants (fanon term)
- Golden Snitch
- He's Just Hiding (another fanon term)
- Hufflepuff House
- Muggles
- Pensieve Flashback
- Ron the Death Eater (a third fanon term)
- Secret-Keeper
- Tom the Dark Lord
- Wizard Duel
- Wronski Feint
- Takami, Koushun
- Tolkien, John R.R.
- Black Speech
- Dug Too Deep
- The Fellowship Has Ended
- Gollum Made Me Do It
- Gondor Calls for Aid
- Heavy Mithril
- Hobbits
- Kneel Before Frodo
- Loving a Shadow
- Mithril
- Mordor
- Walk into Mordor (film version)
- Mouth of Sauron
- Mythopoeia
- Ring of Power
- Short Cuts Make Long Delays
- Speak Friend and Enter
- You Shall Not Pass!
- Weber, David
- State Sec (Honor Harrington universe)
- Wright, Sylvia
By Title
- Aleriel, or A Voyage to Other Worlds
- Aesop's Fables
- An Aesop (and everything included)
- Androcles' Lion
- Country Mouse
- Crying Wolf
- The Farmer and the Viper
- Honest Axe
- Sour Grapes Tropes
- Arabian Nights
- Scheherezade Gambit (alt. title: Arabian Nights Gambit)
- Br'er Rabbit stories
- Death Takes a Holiday
- Discworld series
- Fast Food Nation
- For Dummies
- Harry Potter
- Draco in Leather Pants (fanon term)
- He's Just Hiding (another fanon term)
- Hold Your Hippogriffs
- Hufflepuff House
- Muggles
- Pensieve Flashback
- Ron the Death Eater (a third fanon term)
- Secret-Keeper
- Tom the Dark Lord
- Wizard Duel
- Wronski Feint
- I Was Told There'd Be Cake
- The Sundered Worlds
- The Young Duke
Print Magazines
- Asimov's Science Fiction
