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Book Titles: Original or Homage or Exploitation?

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The list consists of well-known book titles, each followed by a set of "variations" on that title. The variants range from homages through to works that I presume are trying to piggyback off the fame of the original (eg the Gatsby variants). Does a "clever" title persuade the discerning listchallenge user to read a book?
Criteria for inclusion were quite loose: the title was already on the listchallenges database, the title had a decent number of ratings on goodreads or the adjusted title was amusing to me. Newer books with titles identical to the original were excluded.
I appreciate that the famous title may itself have been a phrase borrowed from some preceding work (eg from the poetry of Robert Burns, John Donne, even from nursery rhymes) but that has long been the case in literature.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (Alexander McAll Smith)
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
2
Alexander McAll Smith
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (Will Self)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker
3
Will Self
The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth (Malcolm Pryce)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth
4
Malcolm Pryce
The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons (Katie Macalister)
The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons
5
Katie Macalister
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6
Ken Kesey
One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Egg: My Autobiography (Bill Oddie)
One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Egg: My Autobiography
7
Bill Oddie
5150 - The One Who Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest (Kathi Stringer)
5150 - The One Who Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest
8
Kathi Stringer
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
9
Charles Dickens
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
10
Charles Dickens
Bleak Expectations (Mark Evans)
Bleak Expectations
11
Mark Evans
Grave Expectations (C.J. Archer)
Grave Expectations
12
C.J. Archer
Grey Expectations (Clea Simons)
Grey Expectations
13
Clea Simons
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World (Nell Stevens)
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
14
Nell Stevens
12 Days at Bleakly Manor (Once Upon a Dickens Christmas #1) (Michelle Griep)
12 Days at Bleakly Manor (Once Upon a Dickens Christmas #1)
15
Michelle Griep
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
Alice in Zombieland (Gena Showalter)
Alice in Zombieland
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Gena Showalter
Alice in Sunderland
Alice in Sunderland
18
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
20
Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe (Melissa De La Cruz)
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
21
Melissa De La Cruz
Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret (Vera Nazarain)
Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret
22
Vera Nazarain
The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
23
James M. Cain
The Postman Always Dies Twice (Zara Keane)
The Postman Always Dies Twice
24
Zara Keane
The Postman Always Purls Twice (Anne Canadeo)
The Postman Always Purls Twice
25
Anne Canadeo
The Postman Always Brings Dice (Renee Pawlish)
The Postman Always Brings Dice
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Renee Pawlish
The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice (Waverly Curtis)
The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice
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Waverly Curtis
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
28
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Ben H. Winters)
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
29
Ben H. Winters
Sense and Sensuality (Ravi Zacharias)
Sense and Sensuality
30
Ravi Zacharias
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
31
Harper Lee
I Kill the Mockingbird (Paul Acampora)
I Kill the Mockingbird
32
Paul Acampora
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails With a Literary Twist (Tim Federle)
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails With a Literary Twist
33
Tim Federle
Tequila Mockingbird (Rhys Ford)
Tequila Mockingbird
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Rhys Ford
Tequila Mockingbird (Nick Pollotta)
Tequila Mockingbird
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Nick Pollotta
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Late Gatsby (S.A. Klipspringer,  F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Late Gatsby
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S.A. Klipspringer, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby Girls (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Gatsby Girls
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby's Girl (Caroline Preston)
Gatsby's Girl
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Caroline Preston
Searching for Gatsby (Niki Danforth)
Searching for Gatsby
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Niki Danforth
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