ECONOMICAL BOOK TITLES

I remember distinctly seeing the paperback edition of Andy Warhol's "a", 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 twinge whenever I spotted another one-letter book title.

• "a", Andy Warhol;
• "c", Thomas Sowell;
• "C", Maurice Baring;
• "G", John Berger;
• "H", Elizabeth Shepard;
• "H.", Lin Haire-Sargeant, (Heathcliffe returns);
• "K", Mary Roberts Rinehart;
• "K.", Ronald Hagman, (Kafka biography);
• "M", John Sack, the story of M company in the Vietnam war;
• "N", Louis Edwards;
• "Q", Stephen Leacock;
• "S.", John Updike;
• "V", Thomas Pynchon;
• "X", Sue Coe;
• "Z", Vassily Vassilikos.

Close but no cigar, to:

• CDB, William Steig;
• DC, Gore Vidal;
• N or M?, Agatha Christie;
• The Story of O, Pauline Reage;
• RUR, Capek;
• U and I, Nicholson Baker.

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!

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