Isn't this the greatest facade for a library in the world?
Kansas City, Missouri.
I am often so taken with a book title, I have to at least give the book a shot.
This one is on reserve at my library right now: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
The cover only bolsters my idea I will love it.
What are some of your favorite book titles?
Real titles: Zombie Butts From Uranus! and Day My Butt Went Psycho.
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Let's Hear it For the Deaf Man
You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up
What We Talk About When We Talk ABout Love
The Fools in Town Are on Our Side
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4
Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca?
The Shepherd, The Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle
Dog
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fightfight in Heaven
Jeff M.
Go-Go is a real gem. I also like THE SISTER BROTHERS, which I am reading that now. WANDAY HICKEY'S NIGHT OF PASSION. WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES.
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Devil in the White City; Murder, Magic & Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Jeff M.
My all time favorite book titles:
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Here Comes a Candle, Fredric Brown
City of Widows, Loren Estleman
Kiss Your Ass Goodbye and New Hope for the Dead, Charles Willeford
Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott
I do dig that facade -- cool~~
ReplyDeleteMany many many good titles. Even in translation. Three:
Death on the Installment Plan
Another Bullshit Day in Suck City
Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
Bimbos of the Death Sun
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She Walks These Hills
Practical Demonkeeping
Michel
Naked on Roller Skates
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The Screaming Mimi
Three's a Sandwich
A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich.
ReplyDeleteI'm Going to have to go with WALTER THE FARTING DOG and various sequels.
ReplyDeleteTrout Fishing in America, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Last Exit to Brooklyn, No Exit from Brooklyn (Randisi), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love... Lots of great ones without even getting to Raymond Chandler.
ReplyDeleteFor starters: GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy; THE LAST PLACE GOD MADE and A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by Jack Higgins; WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson; THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera; THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams; THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving; THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER by Alan Sillitoe; and LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel García Márquez...
ReplyDeleteSo many great titles...they make me want to read those books immediately. However, I'm going to go with BECAUSE IT IS BITTER AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART by Joyce Carol Oates. Whatever its merits as a novel, the title just screams "Read me!"
ReplyDeleteI think Pride and Prejudice with Zombies, is still a great one. Another is The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time.
ReplyDeleteA Ticket To The Boneyard is the first book that drew my attention to Lawrence Block.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think Monkey Justice is a very compelling title, Patti
And a Dance at the Slaughterhouse.
ReplyDeleteI bought CURIOUS INCIDENT just for the title. JCO is very good at it. As is John Irving-also like A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY AND CIDER HOUSE RULES>
Thanks, Dana.
One of Patricia T. O'Connor's books on grammar and usage:
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I have this one on my radar as well, Patti. Just from the title. Though I did read a short synopsis somewhere.
ReplyDeleteSome of my favorite titles (and boy do I hate it when a book doesn't live up to it's title):
THE WOODEN LEG OF INSPECTOR ANDERS by Marshall Browne
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE by Zane Grey
JURASSIC PARK my Michael Crichton
INKHEART by Cornelia Funke
THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET by Brian Selznick
THE WORD MUSEUM by Jeffrey Kacirk
THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS by Jasper Fforde
SOMETHING ROTTEN by Jasper Fforde
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
THE THIN MAN by Dashiell Hammett
MISDEMEANOR MAN by Dylan Schaffer
....and on and on...
The swords of night and day
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The grey mane of morning
Love the last one, Charles. Could also be THE GREY MANE OF MOURNING.
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SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER by David Goodis
SOUTH OF HEAVEN by Jim Thompson
Favorite movie title (hands down):
SURF NAZIS MUST DIE
My Brother was a only Child is one title I've never forgotten.
ReplyDeleteI tend to be intrigued by long quirky titles and not short and sweet titles. I have bought copies of these books based on the title alone:
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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
Curse of the Pogo Stick
Another Bullshit Day in Suck City
I'm curious to hear what you think of Ransom Riggs' book. I didn't
realize it was published as a young adult book until I went to track it down at my local bookstore and the clerk escorted me over to a pile of some teen vampire books that were Riggs' neighbors. The concept was intriguing, the photos are truly bizarre, the atmosphere is surreal and wonderful, but the execution left me wanting.
I am slowly inching up the list. Frustrating.
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