Cool titles

...regardless of what you thought of the book.

The title A Fire Upon the Deep gives me goose bumps. It suggests events that determine the fate of the world (in fact it turns out to be the entire Milky Way galaxy).

And of course you have to love Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition.

A handbook on hanging : being a short introduction to the fine art of execution, containing much useful information on neck-breaking, throttling, strangling, asphyxiation, decapitation and electrocution; data and wrinkles on hangmanship; with the late Mr. Hangman Berry's method and his pioneering list of drops; to which is added an account of the great Nuremberg hangings; a ready reckoner for hangmen; and many other items of interest including the anatomy of murder.

Yikes!

No touchstone?

Robert

Yesterday, I brought home two library books because of their fun sounding titles:
"The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog" (noticed this one first) and "Please Do Feed the Cat". =^..^=

Atlas Shrugged is a cool title.

But Does Atlas Shrug?

The Raw Shark Texts intrigued me when I first saw it.

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

An Arsonist's Guide to Homes in New England.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.

...admittedly kind of gimmicky titles. But still cool.

I like "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All." It's the "and eat you" that makes it. Without that it would just be another boring threat.

A Morbid Taste for Bones and The Knocker on Death's Door.

My mother used to read them in Braille format on her bus commute to work, and when some patronizing soul would ask her "What are you reading, dear?", she would take great pleasure in telling them the title.

10: An Arsonist's Guide to Homes in New England - haha, that's a good one!

James Tiptree Jr. has great short story titles
I'll be waiting for you when the swimming pool is empty
Love is the plan the plan is death
The man who walked home - cool because of the story itself, which (if I remember correctly) is about a man trapped in some sort of time warp after a catastrophic accident and is trying to walk home, but taking centuries to do so in normal time. I'm getting something very wrong here though - I'll check later.

And for some reason I love the title Memories of My Melancholy Whores.

I remember a Bloom County collection called Classics of Western Literature. Somehow it amuses me to tell people I've read all of Classics of Western Literature.

I agree with Thresher (#7) that Atlas Shrugged is cool -- as long as weʻre only talking about titles. For socio-economic and aesthetic reasons I never could get much beyond the title.

On paper the Irish title of Brendan Behanʻs The Hostage looks cool, even though Iʻm not even sure how to pronounce it: An Ghial. I like the original title of Gogolʻs The Inspector General: Revizor. A play very much about local politics, but its title suggests a topic that became very big in Communism of the Cold war era: revisionism.

I love Joyceʻs 2 long major works, but found the titles to be mediocre. Ulysses, by the way, is an example of one of the last uses of the Roman rather than Greek name for someone in Greek legend/mythology. I have always thought of the Homeric character that Bloom is paralleling as "Odysseus". Maybe the very last devotee of the Roman names was Prof. Eric Havelock (Harvard, Yale) In his translation of Aeschylusʻs Prometheus Bound, he calls Zeus "Jove", Hephaestos "Vulcan", and Hermes "Mercury". His English title for the whole play is The Crucifixion of Intellectual Man, whatever that proves -- maybe that capsule renditions of the essence of a play donʻt make cool titles.

In Hawaiʻi Creole*, the title of Shakespeareʻs Twelfth Night; or What you Will is Twelf Nite, or Whatevah (translated by the late George Benton.) Moliereʻs Les Fourberies de Scapin in Creole is translated by Benton as Da Buggah. Probably beats the only standard English title I have seen for it: Scapinʻs Crafty Capers.

*Hawaiʻi Creole: note: no -an ending. aka, somewhat inaccurately "Hawaiian Pidgin".

I think The Man who was Thursday is pretty neat.

Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death by Mark Essig

I still enjoy Bimbos of the Death Star (Touchstone won't load. Is it that I can't spell "Bimbos?") Zombies of the Gene Pool is a little less appealing.
(--and Catgwiin, Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime was pretty entertaining.)

Edited to give Touchstones a chance they did not take

Do you mean Bimbos of the Death Sun?

(hmm, wonder what happened to my copy)

>26 LizzieD: Of course I did! I'd put it down to aging, but I wasn't that swift when I was younger.........

My collection of book titles, in no particular order. I am not endorsing any book (I haven't read most of them...just the titles)

Getting Mother’s Body-Susie Lori-Parkes
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?-George Carlin
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse-Louise Erdrich
Moo-Jane Smiley
Cathedrals of Kudzu-Hal Crowther
The Bark of the Dogwood-Jackson Tippet McCrae
Being Dead is No Excuse-Gayden Metcalfe
No Matter How Much You Promise To Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't
Never Coming Home Again-Edguardo Vega Yunque
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine-Marina Lewycka
Don’t Bend Over in the Garden Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes-Lewis Grizzard
Shoot Low Boys They’re Riding Shetland Ponies-Lewis Grizzard
Something Wicked This Way Comes-Ray Bradbury
Ella Minnow Pea-Mark Dunn
I Still Miss My Man but My Aim is Getting Better-Sarah Shankman
Round Ireland with a Fridge-Tony Hawks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat-Oliver Sacks
Eats Shoots and Leaves-Lynne Truss
How does Olive Oil Lose Its Virginity-Bruce Tindall and Mark Watson
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England: A Novel-Brock Clarke
Who's Who in Hell-Robert Chalmers
Too Lazy to Work, Too Nervous to Steal-John Clausen
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him-Sharyn McCrumb
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific-J. Maarten Troost
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things-Jon McGregor
Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral-Kris Radish
I Wish I Never Met You: Dating the Shiftless, Stupid and Ugly-Denise N. Wheatly
Island of the Sequined Love Nun-Christopher Moore
We'll Always have Parrots-Donna Andrews
Sometimes a Great Notion-Ken Kesey
Saving Fish from Drowning-Amy Tan
Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight-Alexandra Fuller
The Partly Cloudy Patriot-Sarah Vowel
French Women Don’t Get Fat-Mireille Guiliano
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton-Jane Smiley
The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life-Kathy L. Patrick
All Over but the Shoutin'-Rick Bragg
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons-Lorna Landvik
The Autobiography of My Mother-Jamaica Kincaid
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers-Sarah Kate Lynch
The Book of Dead Birds-Gayle Brandeis
But Come Ye Back-Beth Lordan

The Dog Chairman, anyone?

It's a collection of essays.

Seconding (thirding?) An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England.

I rather like The Elegance of the Hedgehog as a title.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

I think it's interesting that nearly all of the titles deemed "cool" are several words long.

It's hard to think of a short title that has the feel of coolness about it.

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett is kinda funny when you work out the intended meaning of the Latin.

Guards! Guards!, another Pratchett strikes me as another good one.

For the most part, it basically seems to take a lot of words to make a joke, which is why the cool titles listed here tend to be on the long side.

Just came across this title: Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland. No idea if the book is any good or not.

34> The book stinks; see its reviews here on LibraryThing.

Robert

To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Great title. It makes you WTF? and want to open it up to see what the hell it means.

Chairman of the Bored (sic) by
Edward Streeter (even though I donʻt usually like pun titles.)

The Ticket that Exploded by William Burroughs
(even though I have found it unreadable.)

The Town and The Mansion by William Faulkner Liked these AS titles, but havenʻt read them yet. You might call them long-term TBR. Didnʻt like the title of their predecessor,The Hamlet, but have read and admired it.

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

Cry ,the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
and
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
(Dickensʻs BR and MC are perhaps the best use of a kind of weird name in a title; but donʻt think "Scrooge" would have been a better title for the book version of A Christmas Carol.

"The Night the Bed Fell" and "The Night the Ghost Got in" by James Thurber
(use of 2 reputed events that did NOT happen(!) as a title.)

The Eunuch by Terence
(the hero is a NON-eunuch, pretending to be a eunuch; the actual eunuch is a minor character.)

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
one of the best sarcastic uses of an adjective in a title (as the characters are very UN-revolutionary.)

Paralleling Please DO Feed the Cat, cited by Catgwinn (#6) is: Thank you for Smoking
by Christopher Buckley

Best! Author! Ev-ar!

Robert Funk and the Jesus Seminar

Which would also be an excellent name for a rock band.

Frank Black already did that with the Catholics.

There is nothing new under the sun.

But the name "Funk" adds a certain something.

Currently reading Utterly Monkey and just found out what the title means.

What does it mean?

Well, let's just say there was an incident between a boy and a girl that happened in a place called Monkey Lane. After that, the guys would always say, if a girl was a bit rough, is she Monkey Lane? Is she completely Monkey? Is she totally - utterly - &*%#ing - Monkey?

Dinosaurs Love Underpants

This is one reason to love LT. My young daughter just was telling her mother and me about a book that involved dinosaurs and underwear that she'd like to get. A tag search "dinosaurs, underwear" turned this up immediately. Daughter summoned to look at the cover on the screen. "Is that it?"
"Yes."

Elapsed time: 20 seconds.

Awesome.

>46 AHS-Wolfy: Thanks!

Carnivores of Light and Darkness

I love a good title!

My own list, of books I've actually read:

Years of Rice and Salt. I read it because of the title.
Across Five Aprils
The Mouse that Roared
Cry, the Beloved Country
Their Eyes Were Watching God
I, Robot
A Ring of Endless Light
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

33> I fell on the floor laughing the first time I saw Guards! Guards! in the bookstore. Years of playing D&D...

16> Tiptree had a lot of fantastic titles. My fav is probably Her Smoke Rose Up Forever.

The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny (wonderful story collection)

All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By by John Farris (sounds like an old saying among superstitious peasants; I think of it every time I hear police sirens)

Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr (lifted from Hamlet; has anyone ever tried to list all the book titles taken from Shakespeare?)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Shall Never See So Much, a line from King Lear, by Gerald Gillis

There's something about A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away that really brings back the days of my childhood.

I quite enjoy the title I Still Miss My Man but my Aim is Getting Better.

Stop Dressing Your Six year-old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom

You Can't Drink All Day if you don't Start in the Morning
Both by, Celia Rivenbark

to #55 Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like A Skank...any good? Sounds interesting as I am from the South and have said that a few times myself.

#56- Yes they are all laugh out loud funny!I love them.
Celia Rivenbark also does a newspaper column in the south, all of her books are Great!

Looooove this thread! lol

I actually have a tag "weird titles"... which includes

The Pickle Song
When No One Was Looking... Someone Died
The Potato Kid

(grrr touchstones won't load)

among others. The third one I picked up simply because of the title.

Excellent book!

I recently added a book to my wishlist called The Island of the Menstruating Men about religion in New Guinea.

The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck was a funny read.

The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket
An unauthorized autobiography??

I'm currently reading They Shall Have Stars, which is a fine poetic title for a sf book about a society which, at the beginning of the novel, is stagnant for technological development and seems like it'll never get off the ground.

One of my favorite titles is The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis.

Any Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald;the color theme the common link throughout the series, making it instantly recognizable.Probably the best example beingfreefall in crimson.

Although my favourite is
The Long Lavender Look. It rolls nicely off the tongue.Delicious!

Personally, I've always loved titles that hint at a story not quite rooted in everyday reality. Science fiction and fantasy is, obviously, great for this:

The Nine Billion Names of God
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Tomorrow the Stars
Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
The Woodrow Wilson Dime
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Icerigger

That said, my all-time, sentimental favorite title may be:

East of Desolation

It's a competent, unremarkable thriller by Jack Higgins, but . . . oh, that title! :-)

How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford.

Some serious Star Trek fans consider it blasphemous - but I think it's hilarious.

Barbie: Voyage to Rados,

and here's an illustrated synopsis for your viewing pleasure:
http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8689

One of my favourite titles is:-

A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre

Not read it yet but I must admit I bought it because of the title.

I Hate People
I just selected and read this self-help business ditty, soley because of the title.

This subject comes up regularly on LT. Whenever it does I always add to the thread, Pissing in the Snow.

This one recently popped up in my Amazon recommends:

John Dies at the End by David Wong

73: Well dang, they gave away the end! :P

#71 - I recommend that one goes to the top of your TBR pile - it's absolutely brilliant, and took me back (shuddering) to the horrible politics of the schoolyard with chilling effectiveness.

#75 - Thanks for the advice, I will now make sure it's pushed way up to the top of my tbr pile.

I've also always liked

The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances

For me the king of the cool title has to be Philip K. Dick. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, The Man Who Japed, In Milton Lumky Territory, Galactic Pot-Healer. I could go on and on...

And then there's A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia. Been meaning to read it for ages...

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"

The Woman Who Swallowed A Toothbrush by Rob Myers

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

Soon I Will Be Invincible.

Supertoys Last All Summer Long.

Jihad vs. McWorld.

The Island of the Day Before.

And finally, I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President.

These are a few of my personal favorites!!

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse

The Antipope

The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions

-- All three by Robert Rankin

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

-- Tom Robbins

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

-- Christopher Moore

1. Who Flang that Brick?

2. Speak up, you Tiny Fool!

3. Pay the Two Dollars!*

4. Conjectures of a GUILTY Bystander
(emphasis added)

5. Tyrannosaurus Drip

* The $2 refers to a fee (?!) of "only" $2. Shows you how old the book is.

1 and 2 (1 of the 1940s; and 2 of the 1960s are
both, if I remember rightly, collections of cartoons.

4 (by Thomas Merton is one of those titles that would be funny if it wasnʻt so tragic (as would the 2nd title of #83).

One I just read because of the title:

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms.

>84 rolandperkins:
3. Pay the Two Dollars!*... * The $2 refers to a fee (?!) of "only" $2. Shows you how old the book is.

I'm guessing that's not the companion volume to Steal This Book.

". . .NOT the companion volume..."

No, itʻs at least 3 decades older. I saw it in the
1940s -- in a large university library, and have never seen it in a public library. It was probably of sometime
in the 1920s to 40s.

To LT I owe the knowledge of these 2; have never seen them:

1. This Book is not Good for you
by Pseudonymous (sic) Bosch

2. If youʻre Reading this Book, itʻs too Late
by Pseudonymous Bosch

Also:

1. How to become a Bishop without being Religious
by Charles Merrill Smith

2. God was here, but He Left Early
by Irwin Shaw

3. How to Become Extinct by Will Cuppy

(In)Justice System
--title of a (tags) category in the LT Collec tion of Black.Rose, an Australian collectivity.

Uncle Tungstun:Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
The unbearable Lightness of Scones ALexander McCall Smith

> 85

The Earth Moved

I have it! I have it! It's a wonderful book!

There I was, idly looking around the gift shop in Alnwick Gardens when I saw this strange looking book with worms on the cover. So of course I had to buy it! It turned out to be the most fascinating read, proof of which is that I have lent it to many people, and every one of them has loved reading it too.

"Basket 22: Fast Reads"*

The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein
by Minda Webber

The Cafeteria Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler**

*Title used for Tags in a memberʻs collection.

**This author has many ". . .Black Lagoon" titles,
not all of them featuring a woman."

I am especially fond of The Librarian From the Black Lagoon.

I just saw these two at the book store the other day!

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson

And, of course:

Nostradamus Ate My Hamster
and
The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag
both by
Robert Rankin

If any of you haven't read any Robert Rankin, I HIGHLY recommend him. His books might be a bit hard to find here in the states - maybe its a British thing? - but its definitely worth looking for!
(and its not just his incredible titles!)
When was the last time you laughed out loud while reading?

I put this book on my wishlist just for the title:
The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Alisa Surkis

Are the stories lesbian or the horses? I can't wait to find out.

97: Omg! I've had that on my wishlist forever! lol

I really like the titles for:
Me, the Missing, and the Dead
Last Exit to Normal
and
Tales of the Madman Underground

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad by Arthur L. Kopit

great play, great title!!

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs
by Damon Galgut

100 Bullshit Jobs and how to Get them
by Stanley Bing

The Book of Lost Things

I love this title!

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification - I just love that kind of weirdness ;-)

when will jesus bring the pork chops? by george carlin

just found the book and loved the inscription....

Carlin was a linguistic genius - and that's one of my all time favorites of his!! Can't believe I didn't think of that one before!!
Well done!!

Elogio di Nerone / Praise(!) for Nero*

by Girolamo Cardano

* Literal translation of the title, but this one probably didnʻt make it into translation

#100 LOL! No Touch Monkey! sits patiently on my shelf.

What about that classic of nihilism, The Angry Clam

And, my all-time favorite memoir In Me Own Words.

The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids.

What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America by Peter Hansard or the UK version of the title: What Bird Did That?: The Comprehensive Field Guide to the Ornithological Dejecta of Great Britain and Europe

The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust

94095::Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill by Steven Brust

(The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse as mentioned above is usually the first one I think of when talking about cool titles.)

ETA some titles.

The Monstrumologist intrigued me when I first saw the title. It was a good book too. Scary.

I have to say King got me interested with the title Ur.

Little, Big always seemed so enigmatic that it encouraged me to attempt the book four times before I got it right and was able to finish it.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Shirley Jackson

By the Waters of Babylon Steven Vincent Benet

The Years of the City George R. Stewart

The House on the Borderlands Hodgson

The Dying Earth Jack Vance

Jitterbug Perfume and Wild Ducks Flying Backward
--by Tom Robbins

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
--by Walter Moers

How To Shit In The Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach To A Lost Art - Kathleen Meyer.

An Inconvenient Elephant by Judy Reene Singer

and I just finished

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

Everything that has Been, Will be again;* the Reincarnation Fables . . . by John Gilgun

*If you (and Friedrich Nietzsche) say so, John. (I did know JG slightly; never did meet FN. Probably because our lifetimes didnʻt quite coincide.)

(Not exaclty a title, but a "Cool" memo given
as part of a description of a memberʻs
starring system:>
"4.5 -- 5 Stars: HIGHLY Recomended and you best get hold of the book RIGHT NOW!"

I love a lot of the (extremely long) titles from books published in the 17th & 18th centuries:

God's marvellous wonders in England: containing divers strange and wonderful relations that have happened since the beginning of June, this present year 1694. III, An account of a terrible storm of hail, near Darlington, in the bishoprick of D'ham, on the 2. of July, 1694, by which divers persons and cattel were hurt, and birds in their flight beat down dead.

Onania, or, The heinous sin of self-pollution, and all its frightful consequences, in both sexes, consider'd : with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injur'd themselves by this abominable practice : to which are added, divers remarkable letters from such offenders, to the author, lamenting their impotencies and diseases thereby ; as also letters from eminent divines, in answer to a case of conscience, relating thereto ; as likewise a letter from a lady, to the author (very curious) and another from a married-man, concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed, with the author's answer ; and two more from two several young gentlemen, who would urge the necessity of self-pollution ; and another surprizing one, from a young married lady, who by this detestable practice became barren and diseas'd.

The dodechedron of fortune, or, The exercise of a quick wit : a booke so rarely and strangely composed, that it giveth (after a most admirable manner) a pleasant and ingenious answer to every demaund; the like whereof hath not heretofore beene published in our English tongue. Being first composed in French by Iohn de Meum, one of the most worthie and famous poets of his time; and dedicated to the French King, Charles the fift, and by him, for the worth and raritie thereof, verie much countenanced, used, and priviledged: and now, for the content of our countrey-men, Englished by Sr. W.B. Knight. The use of the booke the preface annexed declareth.

A funeral sermon delivered on the alarming manner it pleased God to call from this world to his mercy in Christ three unfortunate youths, by the blowing up of the laboratory in Albany.

A true and sad relation of the great and bloudy murder committed at Ratcliff in Stepney Parish neer the City of London, upon the body of John Hunter, a sea man, who was stabbed to the heart with a long knife, by one Mr. Smith and his wife and a young maid. Wherein is related, the manner how they received his bloud in a bason, and how they were discovered. With their examination the last Sessions in the Old-Bayley, before the honourable bench, and their confession. For which fact, both Smith, his wife, and the other strumpet hath now suffered death.

The husband's authority unvail'd; wherein it is moderately discussed whether it be fit or lawfull for a good man, to beat his bad wife. Some mysteries of iniquity are likewise unmasked, and a little unfolded. A subject, to some, perhaps, as unwelcom as uncoth.

Some queries, proposed to discover the necessity of magistrates and laws: and engaging to defend both, and which are writ for those sakes who are not yet come into so great a measure of light and love, and charity, as to bear all things, and to see all things lawful: 'tis light that discovers the lawfulness of things, and charity bears them; and 'tis love that fulfils all law; (and these three are one:) and when all law is fulfilled, or fulled full, where then is there place in such, for unlawful, or law unfilled?

Of ghostes and spirites walking by nyght, and of strange noyses, crackes and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters, & alterations of kyngdomes.

Three bloodie murders; the first, committed by Francis Cartwright vpon William Storre, Mr. of Art, minister and preacher at Market Raisin in the countie of Lincolne. The second, committed by Elizabeth Iames, on the body of her mayde, in the parish of Egham in Surrie: who was condemned for the same fact at Saint Margarets hill in Southwark, the 2. of Iuly 1613. and lieth in the White Lion till her deliuerie: discouered by a dombe mayde, and a dogge. The third, committed vpon a stranger, very lately neere High-gate foure miles from London: very strangely found out by a dogge also, the 2. of Iuly. 1613.

#119 - The style of capitalization of titles sure wouldn't work for those.

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is probably one of the most poetic titles I've seen. And it's not even on a poetry book :)

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy.

How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe by Charles Yu.

I couldn't resist A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius or more recently Super Sad True Love Story.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I love it.

The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat.

The Golden Apples of the Sun.

Out there where the Big Ships Go.

slushgod -- screen name of editor, reviewer and L T member John Joseph Adams

I just came across this unique title in a catalog: The Dong with a Luminous Nose by Edward Lear.

#73 I love John Dies at the End! It's such a good book!

Just finished Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black & Co. I think the unicorns won in the ingenuity of stories. Zombie won in the mass destruction department.

Also, Overqualified is pretty good. It's this guy writing resumes to jobs he applying for. Some or bett than others, but this book has a special place in my heart as I was reading it as I was applying to jobs and had to b.s. cover letters.

I am surprised nobody has mentioned:

425. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy (read 9 Apr 1952)
I know I read it because I was so struck by the title.

The same is true as to:

1503. I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century, by John Andrew Rice (read 3 Feb 1979)

another:

3411. What Me Befell The Reminiscenses of J. J. Jusserand (read 24 Feb 2001)

and:

1763. Right-Hand Glove Uplifted: A Biography of Archbishop Michael Heiss, by Sister M. Mileta Ludwig, F.S.P.A. (read 30 Jan 1983)

The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love, one of the few books i bought just because of the title

1. Clean Straw for Nothing
2. A Cartload of Clay -- both by George Johnston (Australian); they were published together by Angus & Robertson

". . .ein Buch fur Allen und Keinen / A Book for Everyone and No one: subtitle of Nietzscheʻs
Also Sprach Zarathustra / Thus Spake Zarathustra. Seemed like a cool SUB-title, though the title itself never impressed me much.

406. Nothing, by Henry Green (read 9 Jan 1952)

I did read this because I knew a kid who would ask me what I was reading--and he did ask, and I gave a one-word reply.

One of those "so bad that itʻs almost good" titles:

Blotto, Twinks, and the Ex-Kingʻs Daughter
by Simon Brett

as if to prove how bad/good it is, Touchstones
sent me a "no results" message on it.

On 136 > 138:

Hi sqdancer,
Was 138 corroboration of my 136, or just running a test to see what Touchstones is up to? (It did b t w, turn up in blue on my screen (136), despite the "No Results" message.

Potty, Fartwell and Knob: From Luke Warm to Minty Badger - Extraordinary But True Names of British People by Russell Ash

When I Was Five I Killed Myself by, Howard Buten

The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle by Patrick Rothfuss

**A fairy tale for grown-ups!!

Un-Stable Lanewasupposed to be a cool title until I found sometimes it was printed with a small s and sometimes with a Capital which means people can't always find it! My fault I suppose.Doesn't do to try to be too clever.
oldstick

How to Be a Pope: What to Do and Where to Go Once You're in the Vatican by Piers Marchant

**I saw this title mentioned online and couldn't believe it was real!!

The Devil's details : a history of footnotes*
*Being a concise and definitive account of the footnote, from its murky birth to its fertile middle years to its endangered present, beset as it is by careless writers and indifferent editors and thoughtless readers and penny-pinching publishers; an account, moreover, enhanced by copious documentation, enlightened by countless quotations from wise councillors, lightened by many passages of delightful humor, and yet entirely unafraid of either controversy or sex.

One that just caught my eye on Amazon: Vietnam and Other American Fantasies

Memoirs: Downhill All The Way by Leonard Woolf and What Did I Do? by Larry Rivers.

"From Here on UP, itʻs DOWNhill all the way"
by Walt Kelly -- A Pogo episode title

I hear Elton John in my head when I think of this YA title:
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Another book with a better title than story: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the other stories along the same line

I cracked up when I came across this title in a middle school library though I doubt a mycologist would find it amusing:
The Wonderful World of Fungi

My favorite "not funny to a specialist" title is the industry journal Cement. Good title, though: gets right to the point.

Aw, man! I wanted Cement, socialist realism version!

(Never thought I would see these words in the same sentence):

Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal by Adam Warren

(hmm, changes languages in midstream, but I think it would be cool even without the subtitle.

Greekgeek82 -- screen name of an L T member

JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE a Wild Cards Mosaic Novel
by George R. R. Martin*

*"Cool" in spite of the caps, not because of them.

This is good book, and a neat title:

3914. The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town A Memoir, by Dale Bumpers (read 27 July 2004)

Barbara Hambly has some good ones: Graveyard Dust, Wet Grave, and Days of the Dead. The last-named has the protagonists trapped on a isolated hacienda with a mad Don who believes in the Aztec gods and has a fixation on Helen of Troy...

I'll add the interesting novel/memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn.

King of the Royal Mounted and the Ghost Guns of Roaring River
by Zane Grey

I love the title -- for no rational reason; Iʻm not much of a Zane Grey fan, but I made this a Wish List item in L T just on the strength (?) of the title.

60 you know I don't think I've ever read a book about New Guinea that I didn't really enjoy.

Fav so far Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Fun if we could vote one winner.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Echte mannen eten geen kaas (Real men don't eat cheese)

How to Heal the Hurt by Hating by Anita Liberty

> 1

Trainspotting

Of Mice and Men

Les Miserables

A Tale of Two Cities

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The God Delusion

All the Georgia Nicholson books. My personal favorites:

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God or
It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers

Some others:
Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
Orphan By Choice
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on my Eyeball

And one that's in my wishlist solely for the cool title:
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

Heads of state: the Presidents as Everyday Useful
Household Items in . . . .. . by Carl Sferraza Antony

-- I have never seen this, or even heard of it before L T.
"Search", intriguingly, breaks off the title after "in". One wonders IN what? Anyway, this is probably the only time
the adjective "everyday", or "useful", or "household" has been applied to a politician. The author seems to have written quite a lot on U. S> First Ladies, notably the
life of Florence Harding, probably the most controversial First Lady.

...Pewter, Plastic, Porcelain, Copper, Chalk, China, Wax, Walnut and More

it definitely just went on my wishlist!

>169 girlfromshangrila: girlfromshangrila All good ones, but Orphan by Choice really got me!

On 171:
"Pewter . . . walnut and more"

Thanks, Antony, I didnʻt have any idea what kind of

"item" materials the author meant. Itʻll be interesting to see
which he equated with whom.

Gun, with Occasional Music and several others by Jonathan Lethem

>175 QuarterBound:
Did anyone else think that was a touchstone for a brand of potato chip? (I guess that accounts for the coolness as a book title!)

jot
screen name of a member; (the shortest
alpha-screen name? Probably not, there must be some 2-character ones.)

>177 rolandperkins:/screen names
See also, jr
No books, but several possible meanings -- from "not 'sr'" to "who shot..."

(There is a) "jr" . Thanks (178)

Iʻm surprised, by the way, that your "jr" came out in blue.
I havenʻt found membersʻ names, even though bracketed, to come out that way.
My "jot" was put in blue, but that was because it was a book title, not because of being a member name.

>179 rolandperkins:
If you put an @ in front of a piece of text (without a space), it will treat the text as a user name and turn it into a link to their profile*.

So, type @AnnaClaire and you get AnnaClaire

Or, type @rolandperkins and you get rolandperkins

(BTW, the way I got it to show the @ symbol in those examples was by using the HTML code for it: @.)




--------
*The downside is that it doesn't check to see if that member exists: I doubt the big domain names associated with e-mail such as yahoo.com and gmail.com were members in the first place, though those links say they have been removed as members.

"...put an@ in front of a piece of text... a link to their profile."

Thanks, AnnaClaire. I didnʻt know about adding the .

Olivia Kidney Stops for No One
by Ellen Porter*

*also the author of Slob and Pish Posh

republicans:* Cretins, Morons, Fools, Lunatics, and A-holes
title of a thread in L T (under Pro and Con )

*republicans: sic. No upper case-R, though all the other adjectives/nouns get one. Would I think this title was so "cool"
if it said "democrats:..." instead of "republicans"?
Probably not --just luke-warm at best.

Cool! by Michael Morpurgo

kropotkinsleftfoot an L T member name

Bury My Heart At Conference Room B by Stan Slap.

Pardon me if it's been posted already, but is there anyone here who doesn't think that Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading is one of the greatest book titles ever?

I admit I derived a certain satisfaction when I decided to read Nothing by Henry Green because I wanted to answer a guy who would ask me "what are reading?" and as I was reading it in the barracks at Norfolk, VA he did ask me and I answered truthfully. This was in 1952.

John dies at the end by David Wong

The Chinatown death cloud peril by Paul Malmont

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

By Christopher Monger. A tale heard from his grandfather about the real village of Taff’s Well, (Fynnon Taff in welsh; Rhonnda Cynon Taff, Wales) and its neighbouring Garth Hill.

http://www.surveyhistory.org/englishman_who_went_up_a_hill.htm

Ghost on the Throne by James Romm. Good title--dramatic and eerie (and if you read it, you will indeed come across some eerie incidents).

The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists by Barbara Wilson

Life 102: What to do when your Guru Sues you
by Peter McWilliams

A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations

I also like book titles which don't quite have the nerve to spell it out such as Holy Sh*t!.

The Problem with Here is that it's where I'm From

The Marching Morons by Kornbluth

This title encouraged me to find and read the book:

1701. At Twelve Mr. Byng Was Shot, by Dudley Pope (read 21 Mar 1982)

#119 reminded me of the longest title in my list of books read:

4213. Raintree County...which had no boundaries in time and space, where lurked musical and strange names and mythical and lost peoples, and which was itself only a name musical and strange, by Ross Lockridge, Jr. (read 25 Sep 2006)

The Fruminous Bandersnatch
by Ed McBain*

*With a nod to Lewis Carroll, who originated the phrase.

I rather like Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore. Great book too. Same goes for Speaker for the dead. Some people have already quoted The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but the sequels also have great titles, such as The restaurant at the end of the universe. I also like The five people you meet in heaven and Child of a rainless year.

I like the title Raintree County (203) and dislike Rain Man, though "Man" is probably a better screenplay than "County" is a novel.

Hmmm. How about The Third Pig Detective Agency, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing, and The Woman Who Died A Lot? I think those are some pretty cool sounding titles.

These are some of my favorite titles. Some them aren't particularly clever or anything, I just like them.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Fingersmith (purely for the double entendre, of course)
Teacher Man
World War Z
The Sisters Brothers
Jag är tyvärr död och kan inte komma till skolan idag (This is a Swedish YA novel. The title roughly translates to "Unfortunately, I'm dead, so I can't come to school today.")

screen name of an LT member: EchoofYourPast

Title of a topic in the Green Dragon Group:
"So I Finally Tried Game of Thrones NO SPOILERS, PLEASE"

How to Sh*t in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art, by Kathleen Meyer

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wes Roberts

New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People by Robert Desowitz

Ecstatic Cahoots
- - short stories by Stuart Dybek
who, b t w, is the author choosing his own favorite books in the current issue of
THE WEEK, good choices, I thought.

Those traveling folks always think of good ones:

Sex Lives of Cannibals
A Wolverine is Eating My Leg
Getting Stoned with Savages
Sand in My Bra
Video Night in Kathmandu
My Old Man and the Sea

> 212, speaking of cannibals, there's I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like (it's not about Hannibal Lecter: he knows).

(not exactly titles, but 2
tags used by an LT member):

1. "needs a call number"
2. "abhomination"

Youll be glad to know that
while (1) is attached to over 900 titles, (2) is attached to only 2.

>212 Sandydog1: I checked out the link for A Wolverine is Eating My Leg. Scarily, it's tagged "non-fiction"!

All of those I listed are indeed non fiction travelogues.

Speaking of nonfiction, someone already mention Pissing in the Snow. It's an anthology of Ozark stories. Perfect for the armchair anthropologist.

My wife: "So what's A Farewell to Arms about?"
Me: "It's a World War One novel."
My wife: "So he gets his arms blown off?"
Me: " ... "

People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges
by Jen Mann

Gould has a slew of 'em. I particularly like The Flamingo's Smile and Dinosaur in THE Haystack.

I just picked up a copy of Plato not Prozac.

"How did you Get this Number?" by Sloane Crosley

This title reminded me of a question I used to ask in an AOL Trvia Game. It was one of 3 decoy answers to a multi-choice question:
With what words did Pope Pius XII usually answer his
telephone? (The correct answer was: "Pacelli, here."
(It. "Pacelli, qui").

I'll nth We have always lived in the castle. Not a book I expect ever to read, but an excellent title.

Some others I like:
History begins at Sumer
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families
Wehe dem Sieger! ("Woe to the victor!")

You should definitely consider reading We have always lived in the castle. An excellent, short, fascinating and slightly disturbing gem.

seconded.

Feeling glum, chum? Why not cheer yourself up with a few lighthearted tales from The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK™ (http://amzn.com/B00T6LQBC0)? :D

The book I had to get because of its title -

The Book Nobody Read by Owen Gingerich

>227 mysterymax:

It's a good book.

I'm intrigued by Crafting with Cat Hair but not enough to buy it.

>228 AndreasJ: Haven't read it yet. Got it the same time as Measuring Eternity which I have finished and which was excellent, so I am hoping the same is true for this one.

Just found this thread. Some of these are REALLY funny.

I like these -
A short history of Weston Hospital: (Trans-Allegheny Asylum for the Insane) (Weston State Hospital), Weston, West Virginia
by Joy L. Gilchrist-Stalnaker

Stop That Pickle! by Peter Armour

The Lady with the Ship on Her Head by Deborah Nourse Lattimore

As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth Rae Perkins

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederick Pohl
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowatt
the Very Slow Time Machine, by Ian Watson
The Awful Revolution, by Walbank
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine by Tom Wolfe
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers by Harry Harrison
Missing, Presumed Wed, by Sharon Wildwind
I am America, and So Can You! Steven Colbert

From my wife's shelves:
Knit your Own Cat by Muir & Osbourne
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Northdurf
Bury me Standing by Fonseca
Bodies we've Buried by Hallcox and Welsh

Fun with Your New Head by Thomas M. Disch

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson

Finn Fancy Necromancy by Randy Henderson.

"Chatterbox embarks on a New Year of
Slightly Obsessive Reading"

(title of an LT thread). I like it for its
combining of metaphor ("Embarks"),
Psychology ("Obsessive") and
Moderation ("Slightly").

"Help me Choose my next Epic Fantasy Series!!!"

- - thread title by an LT member

LOL!

Barking At a Fox-fur Coat
Listening for the Crack of Dawn both by Donald Davis

"15,003 Answers: the Ultimate
Trivia Encyclopedia"
ed. by Stanley Newman and
Hal Fittipaldi

Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller

"I Became a Famous Opera"
(Aka "Surprise: I Became a Famous Opera")
- - Title of a private group in LT

Popery with Intent to Gawk: No "Agony"
No "Ecstasy", no Chuck, no Rex

- - Title of an LT thread in the
"Tropic of Ideas"
Group - - (I didnʻt, at first know who
or what "Chuck" (Heston) and "Rex"
(Harrison) were.)

The Thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula with an Account of the Influence of their Poison on Life and a Series of Experiments.

How to avoid huge ships

I found this book which may appeal to people in this thread. How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books

>247 wifilibrarian: I assume everyone here is familiar with the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year? I added most of the missing winners a few weeks back, though still looking for catalog entries for a few obscure ones. I'd search the thread to answer my own question, but I'm otherwise preoccupied in my project of adding all the libraries and bookstores in Buenos Aires.

>248 davidgn: I didn't know the prize's name until I read the description of the above book. Thanks for adding the winners, it's an amazing list. I remember when How green were the Nazis was shortlisted and people thought that it was so funny but I thought it was a fare enough topic to research and write a book about. Just because Hitler might of been an environmentalist, thought round fishbowls were cruel and banned them, doesn't mean he wasn't a bad person. You can be green and be any number of other things.

The How to avoid huge ships is probably very logical too, if you're a small ship captain it's a great title.

>249 wifilibrarian: I went looking for How Green Were the Nazis? in my Ohio Library Consortium and was disappointed not to find it there. I thought I might, as the Ecology and History series is a publication of Ohio University Press. It sounds like an interesting area of research.

I've got two, both from agreeable shockers- Miss Finney Kills Now and Then, by Al Dempsey, and The Search For My Great-Uncle's Head, by Jonathan Latimer.

One of my favorite titles, Goodbye To All That, by Robert Graves.

One that jumped off the shelf and demanded to be read was Louis de Bernieres' novel The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman . That and Christopher Moore's Island of the Sequined Love Nun.

One of my favorite titles: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières

>253 BookConcierge: "Like"

I was notified yesterday of the existence of a book called Lorries of Arabia. It's a non-fiction book about lorries in Arabia. Yes, it exists.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
by Paul Zindel

... just because

". . . a book called Lorries of Arabia... (255)

I canʻt swear that it exists, but "Low rents of
Arabia" is purportedly a book on housing in
the Middle East, and is said to be "the shortest*
book in the library."

*Much as "Public Transportation on the
Neighbor Islands", which really does exist,
is said to be the shortest "book"* in a library
I worked in.

*pamphlet size

What a fun thread!

From my late husband's library: How To Cast Out Demons : A Beginner's Guide.

edited to add: Non-fiction. No, really, non-fiction.

Pecked to Death by Ducks - Tim Cahill

Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavic caught my eye way back in 1990 when it first appeared in American bookstores. It had a dreamily evocative cover which added to the attraction. It survived several moves and I finally got around to reading it last year. Big disappointment! Couldn't get past page 13. I gave up. It was almost unreadable.

But there is a postscript. I was fooling around with creating so-called found poetry a few months ago, and this book has taken on a whole new incarnation. It turns out to be a pregnant source of felicitous turns of phrase. Who knew?

There Once Lived A Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In

Summertime All The Cats Are Bored (and its sequel, Autumn All The Cats Return)

Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men

And intriguing in a different way, There But For The.

How to Train Goldfish Using Dolphin Training Techniques by C. Scott.

Most people won't find these as funny as I did when I worked in a library and all the books about Armenia got funneled to me, but "Armenia, Cradle of Civilization" and "Shakespeare and the Armenians." (My uncle was Armenian.) And I'm sure it's only the passage of time and culture that has made "Moby Dick" such a funny title for me. (Book was good, too.)

Briefly Knocked Unconscious by a Low-Flying Duck

I always liked I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. And Fahrenheit 451, which, of course, inspired my username.

I can not believe it took until post 223 to get to my all time favourite title: We Wish To Inform You Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. I bought the book because of the title. Most of my other favourites are already listed here, including The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. I've always thought The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a good title (and book!) too. Ah, and I don't think I've seen If on a winter's night a traveller in this list, but that title always caught my attention (more than the book did, unfortunately).

The teach your chicken to fly Training Manual. Funny book.

Currently reading Time Travelling with a Hamster.

>267 peralb: If on a winter's night a traveller is together with Gormenghast, Master and Margarita, At Swim-Two-Birds and a few more one of the best books I've read in my life. I know many people who, like you, disagree, though.

One book I bought strictly because of the title was Gullible's Travels by Cash Peters (touchstone wrong). Unfortunately, for me anyhow, the content did not live up to the title and I never finished reading it.

Superfluous Women
All the Light We Cannot See
Identical Strangers
Dough
King Peggy
Right Turn at Machu Picchu
A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True
The Knitting Sutra
When You Eat at the Refrigerator Pull up a Chair
Are Men Necessary

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. I liked the book quite a bit. The title, though—I think of that all the time. It just comes to mind in the course of daily experiences.

"Postscript to Adventure"
I just love this title - if I ever wrote my own memoir, I'd love to borrow this title.
It's the title of the autobiography of Ralph Connor (pen name of Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon).
He was a Presbyterian minister serving churches on the Canadian prairies in the late 1800's and early 1900's. His stories capture life especially in southern Alberta, and were not something an upstanding Presbyterian minister was expected to be writing (i.e. novels). So he wrote under a pen-name, capturing some of his own adventures as a clergy riding horseback across open prairies and in the foothills.

I'm rather fond of Practical Sins for Cold Climates by Shelley Costa.

The Moon's a Balloon - David Niven
My Name Escapes me - Alec Guinness

For some reason, ever since I first saw it to pre-order, I feel a little bit like I've been kicked in the gut by the title Love May Fail by Matthew Quick.

Dwarf Rapes Nun Flees in UFO by Arnold Sawislak is a favorite of mine and quite a funny book too.

The Jargoon Pard

A fantasy novel. I have no idea what it means.

>280 PhaedraB:

Pard is an old word for panther, or big cat in general. In modern English, it mostly only lives as the second part of leopard, which is etymologically "lion-panther".

A jargoon, I just learnt, is a kind of zircon.

Looking for the Aardvark, which was retitled for the paperback release as Dead On Sunday. While the second title more accurately reflects the contents (religious figure murdered), the first is much more likely to make me want to read it. Inexplicable decision.

Stalking the Wild Aparagus
Interestingly enough, at one point there was also a course at Boston University inspired by this title: "Stalking the Wild Mind."

>282 AndreasJ: Thanks! So nice to be on LT with well-read people.

"The Singing Neanderthals", not a bad book according to the anthropologist around here.
"The Singing Neanderthals: The origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body"....by Steven Mithen

Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss

That's on my TBR pile!

If I'd Killed Him when I Met Him is both a great title, and a great book.

A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends is a great title, but I couldn't even finish the book.

And no, despite these titles, I have nothing against men. :)

While I haven't read the books (yet,) I've always enjoyed some of the titles by Dixie Cash:
Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash
Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes
My Heart May Be Broken, But My Hair Still Looks Great
I Gave You My Heart But You Sold It Online
Very creative :-)

Both the title of the book and the name of the writer leve me with a sense of unease.
"Knit Your Own Royal Wedding" by Fiona Goble