Literal Titles
Single Letter Book Titles

I remember distinctly seeing the paperback edition of Andy Warhol's "a" in the Coop, and thinking, "My God, now I have an excuse to buy "V" and "Z", and then I can look for the other 23!" I didn't, but since then I've felt a collector's twinge whenever I've spotted another one-letter book title. So now, I collect them in my imagination...

"Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria."

• A, Tom Bullough;
• a, Andy Warhol;
• "A", Louis Zukofsky;
• B, Sarah Kay;
• c, Thomas Sowell;
• C, Maurice Baring;
• "C", Anthony Cave Brown;
• C, Tom McCarthy, favored to win the Booker prize in 2010, though it lost to Jacobson's "The Finkler Question";
• D, Robert Harris (based on his screenplay for a movie about the Dreyfus case);
• E, Matt Beaumont (Published in 2000. An epistolary novel in which email is employed);
• F, Daniel Kehlmann (Published in 2013; about three deceptive brothers. Kehlmann is the author of "Die Vermessung der Welt", : "Measuring the World");
• G, John Berger (Winner of the Booker prize);
• H., Lin Haire-Sargeant, (Heathcliffe returns);
• H, Elizabeth Shepard;
• H, Philippe Sollers;
• I: Stephen Dixon;
• J: A Novel, Howard Jacobson;
• K, Robert Calasso;
• K., Ronald Hayman, (a Kafka biography);
• K., Bernardo Kucinski;
• K, Mary Roberts Rinehart;
• L., Erlend Loe;
• M, John Sack, (the story of M company in the Vietnam war);
• M, John Muth;
• N: A Romantic Mystery, Louis Edwards;
• N, Arthur Machen;
• N, John Alan Scott;
• O, Omari Grandberry;
• O: a presidential novel, by Anonymous (John McCain's speech writer Mark Salter);
• P, Andrew Lewis Conn;
• Q, Christine Dalcher;
• Q, Stephen Leacock;
• Q, Luther Blissett (pseudonym. Published in 2004, translated from Italian, and the work of four authors);
• Q, a novel, Paul Nigro;
• Q, Evan Mandery;
• S., J J Abrams;
• S, the English translation of a book written partly in English and partly in French, by seven authors, (Harry Mathews, Jean Echenoz, Florence Delay...) with the French title Semaines de Suzanne;
• S., John Updike;
• T, Victor Pelevin;
• V, Thomas Pynchon;
• W ou le souvenir d'enfance, [W, or the Memory of Childhood] by Georges Perec, a member of Oulipo, and author of "La Disparition" in which no "E" appears;
• X, Ilyash Shabazz;
• X, Sue Coe;
• X, Sue Grafton;
• Y, Marjorie Celona;
• Y: the Last Man, Brian Vaughn et al (Initial publication 2002, a graphic novel, in which all but two bearers of the Y chromosome have died off);
• Z, Michael Thomas Ford.
• Z, Therese Anne Fowler (a fake memoir of Zelda Fitzgerald).
• Z, Vassily Vassilikos.

Close but no cigar, to:

• & or Ampersand, Craig Conley;
• Apostrophe, Darren Wershler Henry, Bill Kennedy.
• \ or Back Slash, William Lovejoy;
• [Brackets], David Sloan;
• CDB, William Steig;
• Co. Aytch, Sam Watkins, an actual memoir of the American Civil War.
• The D. Case, Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini pick up Dickens's unfinished "Mystery of Edwin Drood";
• DC, Gore Vidal;
• ... or Ellipsis, Amanda Fink;
• ! or Exclamation Mark, Amy Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld;
• / or Forward Slash, Mark Edwards and Louise Voss;
• Guillemots, Webster's Timeline History, 1587-2007, Philip Parker (this may be a preposterous book!);
• HHhH, Laurent Binet, (2010, a novel about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich; The title is an abbreviation for "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich", that is, "Himmler's brain is named Heydrich");
• I, etcetera, Susan Sontag;
• Interrobang, Jessica Piazza;
• N or M?, Agatha Christie;
• The Story of O, Pauline Reage;
• `` or Quotataion Marks, Marjorie Garber;
• RUR, [Rossum's Universal Robots], Karel Capek;
• ; or Semicolon, Naveed Khan;
• U and I, Nicholson Baker.
• XO, by Francis Nenik, who kindly alerted me to the Kehlmann book "F".
• Z for Zachariah, Robert O'Brien;
• (is an element of), Jacques Roubard; the actual title is the mathematical symbol used to indicate that an object belongs to a set; the book is a collection of 361 poems, each corresponding to a move in the game of Go;

Thanks to Stephen Frug for several friendly letters and new examples!

One nice thing about the idea of this collection was its finiteness. I wouldn't be needing a lot of storage, even if I managed to get a complete collection!