One-Letter Title

"You write a book, you get to the end, and then it's like—meh, I'll just pick one of the letters of the alphabet for the title."
—TIME.com, Top 10 Books with One-Letter Titles

Related to One-Letter Name, works with a One-Letter Title are exactly that: works that are titled with a single letter, of whatever script.

26 Latin Alphabet Examples

A is an album, a Jethro Tull one.
b is a tabloid by the Baltimore Sun.
C is a language, that's good with runtime.
D is a Bollywood film about crime.
E! is a network for gossip when bored.
F is a series of trucks made by Ford.
G. is a movie, one that's quite "grand".
H. is a hit by a "Tool"-ish rock band.
i was a network, now ION TV.
j is a label that's owned by Sony.
K is a record, Kula Shaker twirled.
L titles a film, while Changing The World.
M is a picture that stars Peter Lorre.
N is a game where a ninja gets glory.
O is Othello, except in high school!
P was Johnny Depp's band. Pretty cool.
Q is a flick about a flying snake.
R. is a CD that Kelly did make.
S was a short-living group of K-Pop.
T is a Mister that cancer can't stop.
U is by Pearl Jam, released in 'nine-eight.
V has an alien metaphor. Great.
W.'s a biopic of George Bush Two.
X is a manga that CLAMP did debut.
Y is a comic about the Last Man.
Z ends our list with a big junta ban.

More examples below, except not in verse. And because they are not, it is so much better.

More Latin Alphabet Examples

a: A tripped-out conversation novel by Andy Warhol.
- A band who is known for their song Nothing.
- A song by Knorkator which consists of the four verses "A", "A", "A", and "A".
  - The Clock Crew has covered them all. The most notable one though is B, the very flash movie responsible for the Clock Crew's existence in the first place.
Do not ever mention /b/.
C: A well-regarded 2010 Tom McCarthy novel.
- An anime, fully titled C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control.
D: A horror game released in 1995.
- A French BD about vampires (guess what the D stands for).
G: John Berger's Booker Prize winning novel about "G", a Don Juan-like figure.
H: An Elizabeth Shepard found-document novel about an autistic boy's letters from summer camp.
I: A song by Black Sabbath. Kiss also did one, but the fans won't admit it. Neither will the band, who even forgot how to sing it.
- Also a rather good EP by Meshuggah.
- And a side project of Immortal's frontman Abbath.
- And a Bad Brains song.
i: A news-digest of The Independent.
- Also, an album by The Magnetic Fields, where appropriately enough, all the song titles start with "I".
L is a South Korean movie.
M is a non-fiction book by journalist John Sack, detailing his time with M Company during the Vietnam War.
N is also a short story by Stephen King.
- Also an album by Finnish metal band Norther.
O: the title of Oprah's magazine, a Cirque du Soleil show, and an anonymously penned novel about the 2008 presidential election.
- 'O' is also the title of a 2006 Eiko Shimamiya Album
Q was an arts and culture radio talk show on CBC hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. q (note the capitalization) is the same show on the same network, but hosted by ~~Shad~~ ~~Candy Palmater~~ Tom Power.
S is the US title of a Boys Love Genre Light Novel series
S. is a 1988 John Updike novel
U: One of the songs by W.A.S.P.
V is also Thomas Pynchon's first novel, and despite all the other weird things in it, it is decidedly alien-free.
W: Georges Perec's memoir of his time as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France.
X: a science fiction space simulator series by Egosoft.
- A Japan only Game Boy game.
- An episode of Teen Titans.
- A Los Angeles Punk Rock band from The Eighties.
- An Australian punk band, also from The Eighties.
- A Def Leppard album.
- An instrumental song by the Red Crayola.
- Also how X Japan called themselves before going international.
Y: The first album by British band The Pop Group.
Z: A real-time strategy game by the Bitmap Brothers.
- There's also a Polish novel titled Z., with the dot.^[1]

Non-Latin Alphabet Examples

π.
? is an episode in the second season of Lost.
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Ё (Yo) is a Russian planned hybrid electric car.
In-universe example: in a soviet comedy "Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика" (Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures), Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains trio call the planned operation"Y": "so that nobody would guess it".

↑ By Mieczysław Porębski

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