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The A to Z of the Shortest Book Titles

October 15, 2010 - 2:06pm — Blake

The A to Z of the Shortest Book Titles
Literary superstars like John Berger, John Updike and Thomas Pynchon all have penned single letter titled books. Purists will be quick to say some of these titles on our list are subtitled by the words ‘A Novel’ but thousands of books are named this way and readers seem to gloss over this aspect of naming literature. Others have longer subtitles but we’re talking about titles, not subtitles.

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October 15, 2010 - 7:34pm — Walt

Almost a nitpick

I was going to complain that "E" is actually E-squared...but it turns out the story just has the wrong book cover. There's an earlier novel entitled "E" by the same author; the book cover is for what I assume is a sequel. So "B" is still available? If only I wrote fiction (intentionally).

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