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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 (Milan Kundera)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (Alexander McAll Smith)
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (Alexander McAll Smith)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (Will Self)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (Will Self)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth (Malcolm Pryce)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth (Malcolm Pryce)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons (Katie Macalister)
The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons (Katie Macalister)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
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One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Egg: My Autobiography (Bill Oddie)
One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Egg: My Autobiography (Bill Oddie)
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5150 - The One Who Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest (Kathi Stringer)
5150 - The One Who Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest (Kathi Stringer)
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
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Bleak Expectations (Mark Evans)
Bleak Expectations (Mark Evans)
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Grave Expectations (C.J. Archer)
Grave Expectations (C.J. Archer)
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Grey Expectations (Clea Simons)
Grey Expectations (Clea Simons)
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World (Nell Stevens)
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World (Nell Stevens)
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12 Days at Bleakly Manor (Once Upon a Dickens Christmas #1) (Michelle Griep)
12 Days at Bleakly Manor (Once Upon a Dickens Christmas #1) (Michelle Griep)
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
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Alice in Zombieland (Gena Showalter)
Alice in Zombieland (Gena Showalter)
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Alice in Sunderland
Alice in Sunderland
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith)
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Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe (Melissa De La Cruz)
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe (Melissa De La Cruz)
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Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret (Vera Nazarain)
Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret (Vera Nazarain)
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
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The Postman Always Dies Twice (Zara Keane)
The Postman Always Dies Twice (Zara Keane)
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The Postman Always Purls Twice (Anne Canadeo)
The Postman Always Purls Twice (Anne Canadeo)
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The Postman Always Brings Dice (Renee Pawlish)
The Postman Always Brings Dice (Renee Pawlish)
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The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice (Waverly Curtis)
The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice (Waverly Curtis)
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Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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Sense and Sensuality (Ravi Zacharias)
Sense and Sensuality (Ravi Zacharias)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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I Kill the Mockingbird (Paul Acampora)
I Kill the Mockingbird (Paul Acampora)
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Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails With a Literary Twist (Tim Federle)
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails With a Literary Twist (Tim Federle)
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Tequila Mockingbird (Rhys Ford)
Tequila Mockingbird (Rhys Ford)
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Tequila Mockingbird (Nick Pollotta)
Tequila Mockingbird (Nick Pollotta)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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The Late Gatsby (S.A. Klipspringer,  F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Late Gatsby (S.A. Klipspringer, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Gatsby Girls (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Gatsby Girls (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Gatsby's Girl (Caroline Preston)
Gatsby's Girl (Caroline Preston)
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Searching for Gatsby (Niki Danforth)
Searching for Gatsby (Niki Danforth)
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