Quote Source / Literature

Below listed are pages with quotes taken from literature.

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• The 13 Clocks
  • Characters as Device

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• The Acts of Caine
  • Always Save the Girl
  • Honesty Is the Best Policy
  • Satisfied Street Rat
  • The Slow Walk
  • Walking Disaster Area

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• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Fence Painting
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • I'm Going to Hell for This
  • A Match Made in Stockholm
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?

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• Aesop's Fables
  • The Farmer and the Viper

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• Agatha Christie
  • Never Speak Ill of the Dead

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• Agnes Grey
  • Two Words: I Can't Count

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• Alcatraz Series
  • Action Prologue

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• Alex Rider
  • Teen Superspy

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• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • An Aesop

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• The Allegory of Love
  • Smug Smiler

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• American Gods
  • All Myths Are True
  • Native American Mythology
  • Never Heard That One Before

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• American Psycho
  • Broken Ace

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• America (The Book)
  • East Indies
  • Self Promotion Disguised As News

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• Anansi Boys
  • Feathered Fiend

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• And Then There Were None
  • Last Survivor Suicide

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• The Angel of History
  • Homophobic Hate Crime

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• Animal Farm
  • Dumb, but Diligent

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• Animorphs
  • Been There, Shaped History
  • Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
  • Reasonable Authority Figure
  • Villainous Vow

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• Anna Karenina
  • Dysfunctional Family

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• Annals
  • Older Is Better

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• Anne of Green Gables
  • My Hair Came Out Green

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• Apeshit
  • Immortality Field

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• Apology of Socrates
  • The Parent Trope

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• Arabian Nights
  • Our Genies Are Different

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• Archmaester Gyldayn's Histories
  • The Dying Walk

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• The Areas of My Expertise
  • Mascot
  • The Scottish Trope

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• Around the World in 80 Days
  • Suicide Watch

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• Arsène Lupin
  • MagnificentBastard.Literature
  • Spiritual Crossover

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• Artemis Fowl
  • Battle Butler
  • I Was Never Here
  • What an Idiot!

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• Arthur
  • Sickness Equals Redness

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• The Art of War
  • A Father to His Men
  • Hostage for MacGuffin
  • I Shall Taunt You
  • To Win Without Fighting

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• As I Lay Dying
  • One-Paragraph Chapter

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• Atlas Shrugged
  • Character Filibuster

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• Aubrey-Maturin
  • Tropes at Sea

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• The Belgariad
  • Someday This Will Come in Handy (The Malloreon)
  • True Blue Femininity

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• Belisarius Series
  • Bodyguarding a Badass
  • Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards

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• Beowulf
  • Famed in Story

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• The Berenstain Bears
  • Slow and Steady Wins the Race

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• Between Planets
  • Dead Man's Switch

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The Bible

• Book of Genesis
  • Cain and Abel
  • Creation Myth
  • Duo Tropes
  • Flaming Sword
  • The Great Flood
  • Jacob and Esau
  • Light Is Good
  • Meaningful Rename
  • Reduced to Dust
  • Youngest Child Wins
• Book of Exodus
  • Burn the Witch!
  • The Clan
  • Parting the Sea
  • Reasoning with God
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill
• Book of Leviticus
  • The Power of Blood
• Book of Judges
  • Bad with the Bone
  • Slain in Their Sleep
• Book of Ruth
  • Undying Loyalty
• Books of Samuel
  • David vs. Goliath
  • Music Soothes the Savage Beast
  • Tragic Bromance
  • Uriah Gambit
• Books of Kings
  • The Philosopher King
  • Ruling Family Massacre
  • Taking Up the Mantle
• Book of Nehemiah
  • The Great Wall
• Books of Maccabees
  • Happily Ever Before
• Book of Job
  • Breath Weapon
  • Dreaming the Truth
  • God of Order
  • Sole Survivor
• Book of Psalms
  • Ancient Africa
  • Be Yourself
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation
  • Jerusalem
  • Karmic Death
• Book of Proverbs
  • Bad People Abuse Animals
  • Break the Haughty
  • Can't Take Criticism
  • Fame and Reputation Tropes
  • Heroic Second Wind
  • Karmic Jackpot
  • Never Win the Lottery
  • Pride Before a Fall
  • Returning to the Scene
  • Seemingly Profound Fool
  • Textile Work Is Feminine
• Book of Ecclesiastes
  • 24-Hour Trope Clock
  • All for Nothing
  • A Child Shall Lead Them
  • Gattaca
  • History Repeats
  • The Oldest Ones in the Book
• Book of Isaiah
  • Emissary from the Divine
  • Silent Scapegoat
• Book of Ezekiel
  • A God Am I
  • Incredibly Inconvenient Deity
  • Nepharious Pharaoh
• Book of Joel
  • The Armies of Heaven
• Book of Zechariah
  • Elders
  • Tears of Remorse
• The Book of Wisdom
  • The Cardinal Virtues
• The Four Gospels
  • Authority Tropes
  • Babies Ever After
  • Beelzebub
  • The Blind Leading the Blind
  • Blind Mistake
  • Children Are Innocent
  • CIA
  • Dysfunctional Family Index
  • Easy Road to Hell
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
  • Evil Is Not Well-Lit
  • Gambit Index
  • Good Samaritan
  • Guardian Angel
  • Have You Seen My God?
  • A Hero Is Born
  • Heroic Sacrifice
  • His Own Worst Enemy
  • I Am Legion
  • The Inspector Is Coming
  • Many Spirits Inside of One
  • Morton's Fork
  • Never Accepted in His Hometown
  • No Sympathy for Grudgeholders
  • Perception Filter
  • Regretful Traitor
  • Second Coming
  • Sophomore Slump
  • The Stars Are Going Out
  • Think Nothing of It
  • Turn the Other Cheek
  • Word of Saint Paul
• Acts of the Apostles
  • Godly Sidestep
  • Mook–Face Turn
  • Psychic Dreams for Everyone
  • Redemption Equals Affliction
• Book of Romans
  • God Is Good
  • Hope Index
  • Know-Nothing Know-It-All
  • Misery Builds Character
• Book of Corinthians
  • Divinely Appearing Demons
  • The Four Loves
  • List-of-Experiences Speech
  • Long Hair Is Feminine
• Book of Ephesians
  • Powers That Be
• Book of Colossians
  • Biblical Motifs
• Books of Thessalonians
  • Caught Up in the Rapture
  • Left Behind
• Book of Hebrews
  • Angel Unaware
• Epistles of John
  • The Descendants of Cain
• Epistle of Jude
  • Biblical Bad Guy
• Book of Revelation
  • Angelic Tropes
  • Fallen Angel
  • Gratuitous Greek
  • Judgement of the Dead
  • Number of the Beast
  • The Pearly Gates

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• The Black Company
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something

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• The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
  • Drums of War

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• The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
  • Baku
  • Kamaitachi
  • Kappa
  • Kitsune
  • Nue
  • Nurikabe
  • Oni
  • Raiju
  • Tanuki
  • Youkai

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• Born a Crime
  • Domestic Abuse
  • Hiding Your Heritage
  • I Regret This Index
  • One-Drop Rule
  • Pass Fail
  • Patient Childhood Love Interest
  • Persecution Flip

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• The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome
  • Caged Bird Metaphor

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• Bridget Jones
  • Ice Queen

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• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
  • Computer Virus

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The Camp Half-Blood Series

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
  • Bazaar of the Bizarre
  • Hot God
  • Pantheon Sitcom
  • Struggling Single Mother
  • Underwater Kiss
• The Heroes of Olympus
  • Bonding over Missing Parents
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight

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• The Canterbury Tales
  • Literal Ass-Kissing

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• A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • And Man Grew Proud

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• Cap o' Rushes
  • Scullery Maid

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• Career of Evil
  • Bourgeois Bohemian

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• Casey at the Bat
  • Downer Ending

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• Catch-22
  • Kangaroo Court

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• Cat Pack
  • Edible Theme Naming

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• The Cattle Raid of Cooley
  • Underestimating Badassery

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• Catullus 85
  • Tsundere

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• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Shaped Like Itself

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• Charlotte's Web
  • Friendly Neighborhood Spider

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• Child Ballads
  • A Year and a Day
  • Death by Childbirth
  • Even the Guys Want Him
  • Impossible Task

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• Childe Rowland
  • Food Chains

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• The Children of Húrin
  • Curse

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• The Children Of Poets
  • Poetry Tropes

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• A Christmas Carol
  • Acid Reflux Nightmare
  • Christmas Tropes
  • The Hilarious Table

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The Chronicles of Narnia

• Prince Caspian
  • Flynning
  • Too Awesome to Use
• The Horse and His Boy
  • God Was My Copilot

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• Chronicles of the Kencyrath
  • Comforting Comforter
  • Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
  • Unbalanced by Rival's Kid

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• A Clockwork Orange
  • Freedom from Choice

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• Cloud Atlas
  • Teeth Flying

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• Codex Alera
  • Achievements in Ignorance
  • Follow the Chaos
  • Lethal Chef

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• Cold Comfort Farm
  • She Cleans Up Nicely

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• The Cold Moons
  • Mysterious Animal Senses
  • That Old-Time Prescription

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Conan the Barbarian

• The Devil in Iron
  • Humanoid Abomination
• Xuthal of the Dusk
  • Lightning Bruiser

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• Confessions
  • Moral Myopia

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The Cosmere

• The Stormlight Archive
  • Messianic Archetype
  • Order Reborn
• Warbreaker
  • No One Could Survive That!

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• The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Determinator
  • Earn Your Happy Ending
  • Gorgeous Greek

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• A Court of Thorns and Roses
  • Dowry Dilemma

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• Crush (Richard Siken)
  • Love Is Like Religion

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Cthulhu Mythos

• The Call of Cthulhu
  • Go Mad from the Revelation
• The Dreams in the Witch House
  • Fever Dream Episode
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
  • Fish People

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The Culture

• Use of Weapons
  • Literal Surveillance Bug

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• The Dark Tower
  • The Gunslinger
• Wizard and Glass
  • The Man Behind the Curtain

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• Darth Plagueis
  • Monster.Star Wars

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• The Da Vinci Code
  • One Password Attempt Ever

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• Dear Dumb Diary
  • Dumb Is Good

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• Deep Secret
  • Fan Convention

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• Demian
  • Innocence Lost
  • You Are What You Hate

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• The Devil and Daniel Webster
  • Jury of the Damned

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• The Devil's Dictionary
  • Admiration Tropes
  • Aging Tropes
  • April Fools' Day
  • The All-Concealing "I"
  • Auction
  • Babies, Babies Everywhere
  • Cuckold Horns
  • The Hermit
  • Holy Halo
  • Hot Witch
  • Humans Are Morons
  • Idle Hands
  • Impartial Purpose-Driven Faction
  • New Friend Envy
  • Our Gargoyles Rock
  • Sleazy Politician
  • Tropes in Shining Armor

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• Devils & Thieves
  • Magical Sensory Effect

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• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • Capital Letters Are Magic
  • Saw a Woman in Half

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• The Diamond Age
  • Mechanical Horse

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• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • Rodrick Rules
    • Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
  • Cabin Fever
    • Constantly Lactating Cow

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• Dirty Bertie
  • Faking Amnesia

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• Discworld
  • Battle Cry
  • Crazy Homeless People
• The Colour of Magic
  • Flat-Earth Atheist
• The Light Fantastic
  • Cave Mouth
• Mort
  • Ermine Cape Effect
  • Mugging the Monster
  • Sinister Scythe
• Sourcery
  • Smoldering Shoes
  • Tastes Like Purple
• Wyrd Sisters
  • "Awkward Silence" Entrance
  • Fisher King
  • I Have Many Names
  • Lady Macbeth
  • Out, Damned Spot!
• Pyramids
  • Devious Dolphins
• Guards! Guards!
  • Audible Gleam
  • The City Narrows
  • Hazy Feel Turn
  • Mooks
  • Oblivious Adoption
  • Quiet Cry for Help
  • Rightful King Returns
  • Shoot Out the Lock
• Eric
  • Fetish
  • Tranquil Fury
• Moving Pictures
  • As Long as It Sounds Foreign
  • Bavarian Fire Drill
• Reaper Man
  • Hair-Trigger Avalanche
• Witches Abroad
  • Fantastic Racism
  • Instant Waking Skills
  • What Did I Do Last Night?
• Small Gods
  • Chess Motifs
  • Chess with Death
  • Grandpa God
  • Punch-Clock Villain
  • Real Dreams Are Weirder
• Lords and Ladies
  • Cats Are Mean
  • Experience Entitlement
  • Morphic Resonance
• Men at Arms
  • Evil Gloating
  • Tiger by the Tail
• Soul Music
  • Deaf Composer
  • Pony Tale
• Interesting Times
  • Evil Chancellor
  • Nubile Savage
  • Stop Worshipping Me
• Maskerade
  • A Bloody Mess
  • Falling Chandelier of Doom
  • Scary Flashlight Face
• Feet of Clay
  • Bolt of Divine Retribution
  • The Kingslayer
• Hogfather
  • Disneyfication
  • False Reassurance
  • Gargle Blaster
  • Ice Palace
  • Self-Made Orphan
  • Sympathetic Magic
• Jingo
  • Cutlass Between the Teeth
• The Last Continent
  • Hollywood Natives
  • Wizarding School
• Carpe Jugulum
  • Haunted Castle
  • The Igor
  • Last-Minute Baby Naming
  • Our Vampires Are Different
• The Fifth Elephant
  • No Smoking
• The Truth
  • Terms of Endangerment
  • Vampire Vords
• The Last Hero
  • Sarcasm Failure
• Thief of Time
  • Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
• Night Watch
  • Colour-Coded Timestop
  • Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
  • Handy Cuffs
  • Nothing Up My Sleeve
  • Urban Warfare
• Going Postal
  • Underdogs Never Lose
• Thud!
  • Beneath Suspicion
  • Brainless Beauty
  • Powder Keg Crowd
  • Who Watches the Watchmen?
• Making Money
  • Cool Old Lady
  • Table Space
  • Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction
• Unseen Academicals
  • Passive-Aggressive Kombat
• Men at Arms
  • Fantastic Light Source
  • Good Is Not Soft
• Monstrous Regiment
  • Military Moonshiner
• I Shall Wear Midnight
  • Centipede's Dilemma

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• The Divine Comedy
  • Beast with a Human Face
  • Door of Doom
  • Garden of Eden

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• Doglands
  • Smells of Death
  • Stray Animal Story
  • Winds Are Ghosts

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• The Dogs of War
  • Defeat as Backstory

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• A Dog's Purpose
  • Dogs Love Being Praised

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• A Dog's Way Home
  • Animal Chick Magnet

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• Don Quixote
  • Windmill Crusader

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• The Door into Summer
  • Robot Maid

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• The Doubtful Guest
  • The Thing That Would Not Leave

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• Dracula
  • Überwald

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• Dragonback
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other

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• The Dresden Files
  • Gilded Cage
  • Kung-Fu Wizard
• Blood Rites
  • A Truce While We Gawk
• Dead Beat
  • Dying Alone
  • Evil-Detecting Dog
• Proven Guilty
  • Like Parent, Like Spouse
  • My Rule-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
• White Night
  • Oh Great, a Snark Index
  • Unexpected Virgin
• Small Favor
  • Pintsized Powerhouse
  • Polite Villains, Rude Heroes
• Turn Coat
  • Badass Native
• Ghost Story
  • Distracted by the Sexy
  • Sophisticated as Hell
• Cold Days
  • Insurrectionist Inheritor
• Skin Game
  • Inevitable Mutual Betrayal

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• Dune
  • Ban on A.I.
  • Due to the Dead
  • Master of Your Domain

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• Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip
  • Wake Up Fighting

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The Elenium

• Domes of Fire
  • Shining City
• The Hidden City
  • Gods Need Prayer Badly

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• Elephant & Piggie
  • Abnormal Allergy

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• Emma
  • Acquired Situational Narcissism
  • Appetite = Health
  • Wealthy Philanthropist

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• Ender's Game
  • Deconstruction

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• Eugene Onegin
  • Love Letter

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• Everworld
  • Love Martyr

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• Excession
  • Outside-Context Problem

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• The Executioner
  • Would Not Shoot a Good Guy

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• Eyes of the Calculor
  • Gender-Bender Friendship

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• The Eye of the Storm
  • Abandoned War Child

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• Fantasy Encyclopedia
  • Our Gnomes Are Weirder

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• A Farewell to Arms
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist

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• Father Brown
  • Mistaken for Servant
  • Revealing Cover Up

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• Fatherland
  • Dystopian Edict

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• Fathers and Sons
  • Inverted Trope

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• The Fault in Our Stars
  • Trauma Swing

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• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Undiscriminating Addict

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• "Film in Depth: Water and Immersivity in Contemporary Film Experience"
  • Symbolic Serene Submersion

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• Firebird Trilogy
  • Comes Great Responsibility

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• The First Law
  • Male Frontal Nudity

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• Flashman
  • General Failure

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• The Folding Knife
  • The Trickster

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• Forbidden
  • Convenient Slow Dance
  • Financial Abuse
  • Middle Child Syndrome
  • Mocking Sing-Song
  • Perp Walk
  • Stupid Sexy Friend

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• Foundation Series
  • Anti-Hero
  • Metal-Poor Planet
  • Standard Time Units
  • Xanatos Speed Chess

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• Frankenstein
  • These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know

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• Free Will (and Other Compulsions)
  • Stealth in Space

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• The Go-Between
  • Values Dissonance

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• The Godfather
  • The Mafia

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• Good Omens
  • Anti Anti Christ
  • Don't Try This at Home
  • Elvis Lives
  • Flock of Wolves
  • Friendly Enemy
  • Heaven Versus Hell
  • Mystical City Planning
  • Old British Money
  • Tempting Apple

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• Graceling
  • 100% Adoration Rating

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• Great Expectations
  • Broken Bird

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• The Great Gatsby
  • Loving a Shadow
  • The Matchmaker
  • Will Not Tell a Lie

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• Great Ship
  • Planet Spaceship

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• Green (2011)
  • Friendly Rivalry

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• Harriet the Spy
  • Huge Schoolgirl

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Harry Potter

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Born of Magic
  • Crocodile Tears
  • Did Not Die That Way
  • Eccentric Mentor
  • Fictional Sport
  • Fire-Forged Friends
  • Obsessively Normal
  • Scars Are Forever
  • Stern Teacher
  • What Is Evil?
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Fantastic Anthropologist
  • Feet of Clay
  • Muggles
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Eating Solves Everything
  • Reading Tea Leaves
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Imaginary Love Triangle
  • Nice to the Waiter
  • Sacrificial Lion
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Embarrassing First Name
  • Intergenerational Friendship
  • The Magocracy
  • Rage Against the Mentor
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Evil Evolves
  • Fictional Age of Majority
  • Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems
  • Extremely Dusty Home
  • Gonky Femme
  • Operation: Jealousy
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Adventures in Comaland
  • Badass on Paper
  • Belated Backstory
  • Don't Look at Me!
  • Now or Never Kiss
  • Reluctant Ruler
  • Signature Move
  • So Proud of You
  • Tragic Keepsake

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• Heralds of Valdemar
  • Safety in Indifference

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• Heroics for Beginners
  • Milking the Giant Cow

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• A History of the American People
  • Ku Klux Klan

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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Community-Threatening Construction
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment
  • Cool, but Stupid
  • The Discovery of Fire
  • Eek, a Mouse!!
  • Huge Rider, Tiny Mount
  • Humiliating Wager
  • Narrating the Obvious
  • Reality Is Out to Lunch
  • Sapient Cetaceans
  • Shiny-Looking Spaceships
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Restricted Rescue Operation
  • Robot
• Life, the Universe and Everything
  • I Know Madden Kombat

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• The Hobbit
  • SugarWiki.Awesome Music
  • Badass Boast
  • Dragon Tropes
  • Gentleman Thief
  • Out of the Frying Pan
  • Stronger with Age

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• Holes
  • Never Learned to Read

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• The Hollywood History of the World
  • Hollywood History

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• Horrible Histories
  • Not Too Dead to Save the Day

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• The House of the Spirits
  • Dying for Symbolism

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• How NOT to Write a Novel
  • Description in the Mirror
  • Fetish Retardant
  • Never Live It Down
  • Plot
  • SoYouWantTo.Develop Character Personality (Flaws)
  • Stock Animal Name
  • Unspoken Plan Guarantee

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• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  • The Grinch

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• The Hundred and One Dalmatians
  • Dog Walks You
  • Mink Becomes This Index Most
  • Opulent Outfits

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• The Hunger Games
  • Children Forced to Kill
  • Debt Detester
  • Dying as Yourself
  • Mystery Meat
  • Poison Is Evil

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• The Hunting of the Snark
  • Rule of Three

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• I Am America (And So Can You!)
  • "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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• The Iliad
  • Dead Sidekick

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• The Illusion of Life
  • Good Animals, Evil Animals

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• Iorich
  • Too Clever by Half

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• Inheritance Cycle
  • Meaningless Meaningful Words

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• Inside Out
  • Important Haircut

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• The Invention of Tradition
  • Newer Than They Think

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• It
  • Child Eater
  • Politically Incorrect Villain

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• Jane Eyre
  • Age-Gap Romance
  • Mrs. Hypothetical

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• John Barleycorn
  • Pink Elephants

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• John Dies at the End
  • Ominous Floating Spaceship

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• Joy in the Morning
  • Astral Projection

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• The Jungle Book
  • No Peripheral Vision
  • Noble Wolf
  • Staring Down Cthulhu

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• "Knock"
  • The Last Man Heard a Knock...
  • Ominous Knocking

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• Land of Oz
  • Ban on Magic
  • Inconsistent Coloring
  • Platonic Kissing
  • Society of Immortals

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• The Last Unicorn
  • Broken Heel
  • Unicorn

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• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Horror Struck

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• Letters on the English
  • Circassian Beauty

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• The Library of Babel
  • Great Big Library of Everything

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• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • Always Lawful Good

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• Little Women
  • Settle for Sibling

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• The Little Engine That Could
  • Survival Mantra

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• Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids
  • Celestial Bureaucracy

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• Lolita
  • Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower

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• The Lorax
  • Voice for the Voiceless

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• The Lord of the Rings
  • Battering Ram
  • Bearer of Bad News
  • Black Speech
  • The Cavalry
  • The Chosen Wannabe
  • Color-Coded Wizardry
  • Darkest Hour
  • Deep Sleep
  • Double-Edged Answer
  • Dug Too Deep
  • Elves vs. Dwarves
  • Evil Tainted the Place
  • Evil Tower of Ominousness
  • Giant Flyer
  • Giant Spider
  • Healing Hands
  • Least Is First
  • Medical Monarch
  • Naked on Revival
  • Neutrality Index
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
  • Regent for Life
  • Royal Blood
  • Standard Fantasy Races
  • Waking Up Elsewhere
  • Weather Saves the Day
  • What a Senseless Waste of Human Life
  • Wound That Will Not Heal

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• Lord Peter Wimsey
  • Upper-Class Equestrian

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• The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
  • Finding Judas

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• Lullaby
  • Big Bad

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• The Magicians
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?

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• Malleus Maleficarum
  • Evil Redhead

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• The Maltese Falcon
  • Dead Partner

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• The Man in the Ceiling
  • Rule of Symbolism

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• Mansfield Park
  • Elegant Classical Musician
  • Intentional Heartbreaker

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• The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
  • Wacky Startup Workplace

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• Marmion
  • Sneaky Spider

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• McAuslan
  • Funetik Aksent

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• The Meaning of Liff
  • Zeerust

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• The Metamorphosis
  • Just Woke Up That Way

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• Middlesex
  • Making the Choice for You
  • Romantic Two-Girl Friendship

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• The Minpins
  • Don't Go in the Woods

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• Mirror Dance
  • The Resenter
  • Too Kinky to Torture

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• Les Misérables
  • Lawful Neutral

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• Misery
  • Saved by the Fans

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• Miss Marple
  • Little Old Lady Investigates

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• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
  • Invisible Streaker (Hollow City)
  • Nothing but Skin and Bones (Hollow City)

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• Mister Roberts
  • Naughty Birdwatching

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• Moby-Dick
  • Dying Declaration of Hate
  • Taking You with Me

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• A Modest Proposal
  • Eats Babies

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• molesworth
  • The Bully

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• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Paying for Air

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• More Information Than You Require
  • Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
  • Jabba Table Manners

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• The Mortal Instruments
  • Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids

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• Mostly Harmless
  • Spanner in the Works
  • Trilogy Creep

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• The Mourning Bride
  • Woman Scorned

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• The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming
  • All Beer Is Ale

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• Murders That Baffled the Experts
  • The Corpse Stops Here

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• My Uncle Oswald
  • Freud Was Right

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• Naked Lunch
  • Unholy Ground

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• The Name of the Wind
  • Beware the Nice Ones
  • The Power of Language

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• Nero Wolfe
  • They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason

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• Neuromancer
  • Cyberspace

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• Neverwhere
  • Beware the Silly Ones
  • Those Two Bad Guys

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• New Jedi Order
  • You Can't Go Home Again

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• 1984
  • Airstrip One
  • All Nations Are Superpowers
  • Big Brother Is Watching
  • Brainwashed
  • Doublethink
  • Dystopia
  • Dystopia Justifies the Means
  • Internal Retcon
  • Malevolent Mugshot
  • Motive Misidentification
  • My Girl Is a Slut
  • No Sex Allowed
  • Orwellian Retcon
  • Room 101
  • Same Surname Means Related
  • Secret Police
  • Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
  • Swarm of Rats
  • Thoughtcrime
  • Unperson

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• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  • Sexy Secretary

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• Northanger Abbey
  • Hard Truth Aesop
  • Spoiled by the Format

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• Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
  • Nice Guy

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• The Number of the Beast
  • Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
  • Phallic Weapon

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• Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  • Unable to Cry

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• One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Magic Realism

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• One Man's Meat
  • Road Trip Plot

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• On Fairy-Stories
  • Land of Faerie

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• The Other Boleyn Girl
  • Light Feminine and Dark Feminine

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• Our Mutual Friend
  • Narm

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• Outbound Flight
  • Sparing the Aces

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• Palimpsest
  • Mythpunk

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• Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
  • Tengu
  • Tsuchinoko

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• Paradise Lost
  • The Atoner
  • Satan
  • Self-Inflicted Hell

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• The Perpetual Curate
  • Unable to Support a Wife

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• Persuasion
  • Looking Busy

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• The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Spelling Nazi

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• The Plague Dogs
  • Only the Author Can Save Them Now

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• Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
  • No-Sell

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• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • The One Who Made It Out

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• Pride and Prejudice
  • Anguished Declaration of Love
  • Dances and Balls
  • Meaningful Look
  • Rejection Affection

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• The Prince
  • Church Militant
  • The Evil Prince
  • Vetinari Job Security

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• The Princess and the Goblin
  • I Gave My Word

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• The Princess Bride
  • Egomaniac Hunter
  • I Am Not Left-Handed
  • Indifferent Beauty
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya
  • Prepare to Die
  • Rhyming List
  • You Killed My Father

Q to Z

• The Quiet American
  • Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow

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• Quiller
  • Model Planning

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• Ramayana
  • Noble Bird of Prey

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• The Rape of the Lock
  • Edit War
  • The Tease

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• The Raven
  • The Lost Lenore

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• Ready Player One
  • Anti-Escapism Aesop

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• Redwall
  • Wicked Weasel

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• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • Afterlife Tropes

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• Retief
  • Maximum Fun Chamber

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• The Return of Don Quixote
  • Period Piece

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• "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
  • Remittance Man

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• Right Ho, Jeeves
  • Mask of Confidence

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• Ringworld
  • Weaponized Exhaust

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• Robert Frost
  • Glacial Apocalypse

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• The Robots of Dawn
  • Epiphanic Prison

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• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  • Balkanize Me

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• The Rose Tree
  • Family-Unfriendly Death

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• The Saga of Hrolf Kraki
  • The Berserker

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• 'Salem's Lot
  • Kiss of the Vampire

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• Samson Agonistes
  • Come to Gawk

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• The Screwtape Letters
  • Appeal to Consequences
  • Gave Up Too Soon
  • Heaven Seeker
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Too Funny to Be Evil

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• Septimus Heap
  • Shockingly Expensive Bill

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• A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Busman's Holiday
  • Putting On My Thinking Cap
  • Theme Initials

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• The Shadow
  • Living Shadow

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Sherlock Holmes

• A Study in Scarlet
  • Go Out with a Smile
  • Sherlock Scan
• The Sign of the Four
  • Great Detective
• A Scandal In Bohemia
  • Caper Rationalization
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
  • Artifact of Attraction
  • Holiday Pardon
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band
  • Deadly Doctor
• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
  • Try Everything
• The Adventure of Silver Blaze
  • Absence of Evidence
• The Yellow Face
  • My Greatest Failure
• The Final Problem
  • Diabolical Mastermind
• His Last Bow
  • A Storm Is Coming
• The Three Garridebs
  • Not So Stoic
• The Adventure of the Creeping Man
  • Immortality Immorality

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• Signal To Noise
  • Apocalyptic Index

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• The Silence of the Lambs
  • A Glass of Chianti
  • Hannibal Lecture

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• Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished
  • Historical Fiction

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• The Silver Stallion
  • Crapsack World

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• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • Four-Girl Ensemble

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• Skippy's List
  • Jumping on a Grenade

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• Skulduggery Pleasant
  • Combat Pragmatist/Literature
  • Immortality Bisexuality
  • Power High

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• Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Unstuck in Time

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• Snow Crash
  • Chromatic Arrangement
  • Glass Weapon

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• So Excited, So Scared: The Saved by the Bell Retrospective
  • Saved by the Bell
  • Very Special Episode

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• Soldier Dogs
  • Wintry Auroral Sky

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• Solomon Kane
  • Knight Errant

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• A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Bar Sinister
  • Black-and-White Morality
  • Born Under the Sail
  • Conflicting Loyalty
  • Dead Guy on Display
  • Death Glare
  • Flaying Alive
  • Hunting "Accident"
  • Kingmaker Scenario
  • Lovable Traitor
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me
  • Metallic Motifs
  • Mister Big
  • Nasty Party
  • Patchwork Kids
  • Portent of Doom
  • Royally Screwed Up
  • Scar Survey
  • Smitten Teenage Girl
  • Symbolic Baptism
  • Sympathy for the Hero

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• The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • Dumbwaiter Ride

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Star Wars Legends

• Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
  • Take Me to Your Leader
• Shatterpoint
  • Luck-Based Mission
• X-Wing Series
  • Crazy Cultural Comparison
  • Improbable Piloting Skills
  • Large Runt
  • Mook Mobile
  • Stun Guns

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• Starship Troopers
  • Bug War
  • Powered Armor

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• The State of Affairs
  • Forbidden Fruit
  • Revenge Tropes

---

• Steal This Book
  • Steal This Index

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• The Stinky Cheese Man
  • Fractured Fairy Tale

---

• The Stranger
  • Byronic Hero

---

• Stray
  • Animal Testing
  • Drowning Unwanted Pets
  • Ear Notch
  • No Fathers Allowed
  • Pets Versus Strays

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• Survivor Dogs
  • Automobiles Are Alien
  • Coup de Grâce
  • Naming Ceremony
  • Those Wily Coyotes
  • Wound Licking

---

• Swan Song
  • Empathy Doll Shot

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• Sweet Valley High
  • Appearance Angst

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• Sword of Truth
  • Animalistic Abomination

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• Tactics of Mistake
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Minored In Ass Kicking

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• Tailchaser's Song
  • Animal Religion
  • Creepy Hairless Animal
  • High on Catnip
  • Mating Season Mayhem
  • Rite of Passage Name Change
  • Ventriloquist Animal

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• A Tale Of...
  • Pottery Barn Poor

---

• The Tale of Genji
  • Men Are Better Than Women

---

• The Tale of Styrbjörn
  • Burning the Ships

---

• A Tale of Time City
  • Oral Fixation

---

• Tam Lin
  • White Stallion

---

• Tamsin
  • The Wild Hunt

---

• Temeraire
  • Mildly Military

---

• Theory Of The Leisure Class
  • Mock Millionaire

---

• They Cage The Animals At Night
  • Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday

---

• The Thran
  • Black Box

---

• The Three-Body Problem
  • Water Is Womanly

---

• The Three Musketeers
  • Band of Brothers

---

• Tigana
  • Parting Words Regret

---

• Till We Have Faces
  • The Faceless
  • Perspective Flip
  • The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask

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• The Time Machine
  • Future Primitive

---

• Tortall Universe
  • Protector of the Small
    • Mage Killer

---

• To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Exact Eavesdropping

---

• Tour of the Merrimack
  • Rock Beats Laser

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• Trainspotting
  • Despair Event Horizon

---

• Tricky Business
  • Vomit Chain Reaction

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Trojan Cycle

• The Iliad
  • Abandon the Disabled
  • Achilles in His Tent
  • Disabled Deity
  • Loser Deity
  • The Muse
  • Top God
• The Odyssey
  • Home of the Gods
  • Sacred Hospitality
• The Aeneid
  • Forging Scene
• The War on Troy
  • Dark Horse Sibling
  • Watching Troy Burn

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• Twilight
  • Bishie Sparkle

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• Ubik
  • Stepford Smiler

---

• The Ugly American
  • "Ugly American" Stereotype

---

• Ulysses
  • No Punctuation Period

---

• The Underland Chronicles
  • Bond Creatures

---

• VALIS
  • Break Them by Talking

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Vorkosigan Saga

• A Civil Campaign
  • ReassignedToAntarctica.Literature
• The Vor Game
  • Xanatos Gambit

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• The War Against the Chtorr
  • Planimal
  • Sexy Walk

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• The War at Troy
  • Watching Troy Burn

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War of the Spider Queen

• Condemnation
  • Poke in the Third Eye

---

• Warrior Cats
  • Follow in My Footsteps
  • No Animosity in the Afterlife
  • Sleepy Depressive

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• The Wasteland
  • Fear Tropes
  • Tarot Motifs

---

• Watching the English
  • Spot of Tea

---

• Watership Down
  • Fragile Speedster

---

• The Way of the Weasel
  • Necessary Weasel

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• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick

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• Whateley Universe
  • Artificial Meat
  • Carry the One
  • Character Narrator
  • Familiar
  • How Do I Shot Web?
  • Plane Awful Flight
  • Shape Shifters Do It For A Change

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• Why Not Me?
  • Gratuitous German

---

• Wicked Gentlemen
  • Drowning My Sorrows

---

• The Wicked Years
  • Maternity Crisis

---

• The Widow of Desire
  • Luxury Tropes

---

• Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Old Windbag
  • Sneeze Interruption
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are

---

• The Witches
  • Conspicuous Gloves

---

• The Women Of The Copper Country
  • Company Town

---

• Worldwar
  • Aliens Never Invented Democracy
  • Peace Conference

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• World War Z
  • Dystopia Is Hard

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• Worm
  • Benevolent A.I.
  • Heroic Fatigue
  • Heroism Incentive
  • Hero of Another Story
  • Hero with an F in Good
  • Manchurian Agent
  • Slowly Slipping Into Evil
  • Took a Level in Idealism
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening

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• Xanth
  • Pretty in Mink -- Literature (Centaur Aisle)

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• The Zombie Knight
  • Never Going Back to Prison

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• The Zombie Survival Guide
  • Black Swords Are Better
  • Infernal Retaliation
  • You Can't Kill What's Already Dead

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