- Agatha H. and the Airship City, Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle, and Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg the four thus far completed literary adaptations of Girl Genius.
- The four books of the Hushland biographies of Alcatraz Smedry: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones, Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia, and Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens.
- Children's novels Alex and the Ironic Gentleman and Timothy and the Dragon's Gate by Adrienne Kress.
- Two of the Megamorphs Animorphs books were the variant type. “Elfangor’s Secret” and “The Andalite’s Gift”
- American Girl mostly averts this as it had its own title pattern for the main books, but many of the short stories received this title pattern when renamed for individual release, such as "Kirsten and the New Girl" and "Samantha and the Missing Pearls".
- After the first, the Artemis Fowl books follow this form. They were originally subtitles, but have switched to the "and the" format since the new covers came out.
- Aru Shah and the End of Time and its sequels use this naming convention.
- The Baby-Sitters Club series loved this trope. Not only was this done with every character at least once, but Claudia got the most of it. Her books for a long time were titled Claudia and [Noun Phrase], with the first one of hers to avert this being #56, Keep Out, Claudia!, her ninth narrated title. Out of the books she narrates in the main series, fourteen out of twenty-one books—two-thirds—have this title styling, which can be very noticeable if a reader focuses on Claudia-focused books. There's two more of hers that have the pattern in the Forever Friends series. And all but three books in the spin-off mystery series have this title style.
- Harry Potter is spoofed in the Barry Trotter parody trilogy: Barry Trotter and the Shameless/Unauthorized Parody, Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel, and Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse.
- Most (but not all) of The Berenstain Bears' original series is in the format "The Berenstain Bears and the X Y".
- The vast majority of Biggles books fall into this category.
- Roughly half of the books in C. W. Anderson's "Billy and Blaze" series:
- Blaze and the Forest Fire: Billy and Blaze Spread the Alarm
- Blaze and the Mountain Lion
- Blaze and the Indian Cave
- Blaze and the Lost Quarry
- Blaze and the Gray Spotted Pony
- The translated novels of Book Girl all use this in combination with Idiosyncratic Episode Naming, with "Book Girl" for the name and "Suicidal Mime," "Famished Spirit," "Captive Fool," etc. for the Noun Phrase.
- Every book in the Captain Underpants series with the exception of the first book is like this. Every book title besides Book 3 is also alliterative.
- Children of the Red King: In the U.S., all but the first book follow this pattern. In the U.K., only the later ones do.
- Subtly subverted (or inverted?) in C. S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy, of The Chronicles of Narnia. It seems he was spoofing the "pony-book public". (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a shout-out to E. Nesbit novels with similar titles.)
- A couple of titles in the Clémentine series follow this naming format. Others have the title character's name somewhere in the title.
- Roald Dahl titled some of his books like this (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach).
- Danny and the Dinosaur
- Most of the Danny Dunn books:
- Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint
- Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine
- Danny Dunn and the Weather Machine
- Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave
- Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray
- Danny Dunn and the Automatic House
- Danny Dunn and the Voice from Space
- Danny Dunn and the Smallifying Machine
- Danny Dunn and the Swamp Monster
- Danny Dunn and the Universal Glue
- Dave Barry Slept Here has a list of fifties rock bands which includes "Buster and the Harpoons" and "Bill Hawley and the Smoots".
- Discworld: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- Almost all Target novelisations of Doctor Who published between 1973 and 1982 insisted on the 'Doctor Who and the' format. This occasionally required retitling the story to make it fit, as when "Spearhead from Space" became Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, or "The Moonbase" became Doctor Who and the Cybermen. The practice probably stems from the fact that the scripts were usually titled "Doctor Who and The Whatever" with the first part dropped from the onscreen titles. His name isn't "Doctor Who", anyway, so none of these titles make sense, but that didn't stop them.
- Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives was followed by a sequel, Emil and the Three Twins. His later book The Little Man was followed by The Little Man and the Little Miss.
- Some of the Encyclopedia Brown books follow this format strictly (e.g., Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles), while others deviate slightly (Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again). The ones that name a specific element always use one of the cases in the book as the noun phrase.
- Alice Scanlan Reach's "Father Crumlish and the Cherub Vase".
- Every book and short story in Feliks, Net & Nika series has title starting with Feliks, Net & Nika and...
- Harry Potter uses this for all 7 books, following the pattern of the titular Harry and a location, item, or character around which the central conflict of that particular book forms.
- Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Hoshi and the Red City Circuit
- ''Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone'' which predates the similarly named Harry Potter novel by two years.
- H. R. F. Keating's "Inspector Ghote and the Test Match".
- Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang and its sequel Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur, by Mordecai Richler.
- P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves short stories frequently have such titles ("Jeeves and the Impending Doom", "Jeeves and the Old School Chum", etc.).
- Hugh Pentecost's "Jericho and the Dying Clue".
- Jim Springman and the Realm Of Glory
- All of the original kindergarten series Junie B. Jones book are like this. Averted with the "First Grader" books.
- Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption".
- Kitty Norville: The first, fourth, and fifth books in Carrie Vaughn's series (Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty and the Silver Bullet, and Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand, respectively.) Books two and three are variants of this (Kitty Goes to Washington and Kitty Takes a Holiday).
- Argentinian author Sebastián Lalaurette's first two books were titled Rodrigo y el libro sin final (Rodrigo and the unfinished book) and Naím y el mago fugitivo (Naím and the runaway wizard). The third one, Bellacrín y la Sombra (Bellacrín and the Shadow), is a slight variation in that is uses just a noun instead of a noun phrase.
- William Joyce's The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs.
- This is the case with many of the books in Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama picture book series, such as Llama Llama and the Bully Goat, Llama Llama and Friends and the spin-off title Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too. Others follow the basic format but leave out the "and," such as Llama Llama Mad at Mama and Llama Llama Holiday Drama.
- Isaac Asimov's The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr: After the first book, the titles in this series are in the form of "Lucky Starr and the [Noun] of [Solar System locale]''.
- Thomas Mann's Mario and the Magician
- Mark Delewen and the Space Pirates.
- Jerome Beatty Jr's Matthew Looney and the Space Pirates, Maria Looney and the Remarkable Robot and Maria Looney and the Cosmic Circus.
- Clayton Rawson's "Merlini and the Vanished Diamonds".
- Brina Williamson's Merona Grant and the Lost Tomb of Golgotha.
- Miles Taylor and the Golden Cape
- Moojag and the Auticode Secret
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The first sequel, R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH, slightly altered the title formula, though Racso and the Rats of NIMH reverted to it.
- Every single one of G.M. Berrow's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic books.
- Nancy Drew books often have titles like this where the case is the noun phrase. The video games often follow the pattern as well. The titles use elements of Nancy, a detective's, cases that are central to each case.
- Richard Curtis' "Odds Bodkins and the Dutch Master".
- Old Kingdom: The novella "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case", starring Sam's best friend and Lirael's Love Interest Nick six months after Abhorsen.
- Ōkami-san: Each volume of the Light Novels is titled Ōkami-san and [something]. This applies to each episode of the anime adaptation as well.
- The Outlander spin-off series featuring Lord John Grey are titled this way. Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Hellfire Club, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Plague of Zombies, etc.
- Penryn and the End of Days
- Rick Riordan:
- The Camp Half-Blood Series:
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Subtitle Here x5 . Rick Riordan announced in October 2014 that he was returning to this name format with his fourth series.
- The Demigod Files: Its Short Stories: Percy Jackson And The Stolen Chariot, Percy Jackson And The Bronze Dragon, Percy Jackson And The Sword Of Hades.
- The Demigod Diaries: Its Short Stories: Percy Jackson And The Staff Of Hermes and Leo Valdez And The Quest For Buford.
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard follows the same formula as Percy Jackson.
- The Camp Half-Blood Series:
- Older Than Print: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a Arthurian tale written in the 14th century.
- Daniel Pinkwater's Snarkout Boys books follow this pattern: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death and The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror
- Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
- Skandar Series:
- Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
- Skandar and the Phantom Rider
- Ssalia and the Dragons of Avienot.
- Star Wars Expanded Universe:
- Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away Volume 1: Aliens has a short story called "The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku".
- Star Wars Legends:
- Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. The book mentions a number of in-universe pulp adventures that also use this trope in their title. It's lampshaded, as at the end it's suggested that the novel itself was one of those adventures. It's apparently the published version, following the revisions Luke demanded, as none of his grievances were actually in the novel.
- The Lando Calrissian Adventures trilogy follows the more specific formula "Lando Calrissian and the Compound Noun of Place": Mindharp of Sharu, Flamewind of Oseon, and Starcave of Thonboka.
- Han Solo and the Lost Legacy.
- The German translation of Shatterpoint was titled "Mace Windu und die Armee der Klone" ("Mace Windu and the army of clones"). The clones are actually just side characters who don't appear until relatively late in the story.
- There's a 1980s Strawberry Shortcake storybook called "Strawberry Shortcake and the Winter that Would not End".
- Supernatural Investigations:
- Amari and the Night Brothers
- Amari and the Great Game
- Many of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, starting with the fifth, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.
- Spoofed in Toll the Hounds. Tovald Nom breaks into a nobleman's house and roots through his library because he thinks it's just for show. He's right and finds literary pearls such as Tales of Pamby Doughty and the World Inside the Trunk (with illustrations by some dead man).
- The first two sets of Tom Swift books are all named according to the pattern Tom Swift and His [noun phrase], and are probably the Ur-Example.
- Stretching the definition of "character" a bit, but the non-fiction book T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, about the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, is clearly intended to evoke the trope.
- The Underland Chronicles starts off with Gregor the Overlander, then continues to Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, then Curse of the Warmbloods, and so on.
- Warrior Cats has a lot of these, of the "Character's Noun" variant. The Super Editions (extra-long standalone books) and the novellas all have this kind of title. Listing them all would be problematic, due to the spoilers, but examples include Bluestar's Prophecy, Moth Flight's Vision, Cloudstar's Journey, and Yellowfang's Secret.
- Books by Miss Felicity Beed;e referred to in Snuff include Daphne and the Nose Pickers, Melvin and the Enormous Boil, Geoffrey and the Land of Poo and Geoffrey and the Enormous Pillowcase, (The last two presumably being sequels to The World of Poo).
- From the Penric sub-series of Lois McMaster Bujold's World of the Five Gods 'verse:
- Penric's Demon
- Penric and the Shaman
- Penric's Fox
- Penric's Mission
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
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