Best Book Title Ever

[Orang Utan]

OU, did you like the mills novel. i found it intensely disappointing and gave it away. should i have given it another try?

I like all of his books though he's not for everyone

 

[Apathy]

for a title i think; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is pretty >>

 

[DotCommunist]

for a title i think; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is pretty >>

if were doing PK Dicks books, 'the three stigmata of Palmer K Eldrich' is a good un

 

[trabuquera]

Random Acts of Senseless Violence - by Jack Womack
(great title, even better book)

 

[N_igma]

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.

 

[Vintage Paw]

People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders - and What to Do About It, by Gary Leon Hill

eyethangewe

 

[billy_bob]

Whilst away from tinternet last night I remembered this thread in connection with Raymond Carver's short stories. Some fabulous titles but probably the best are:
So Much Water So Close To Home, and
A Small Good Thing

(two of the stories on which the film Short Cuts was based - the first is the dead-girl-in-the-river segment and the second the boy-getting-run-over/weird-baker-making-nuisance-calls bit.)

 

[rekil]

Mark Manning's Fucked By Rock.

 

[damnhippie]

just remembered - there was a competition in some magazine a while back for the most obscurely named book...

the one that stuck in my memory was 'Sex Magic for Groups, Couples and Solitary Practitioners'

 

[Gromit]

Although I do really like the title 'Do androids dream of electric sheep' I feel I have to go for something else as its already been mentioned.

Therefore I propose:
The long dark teatime of the soul - By Douglas Adams

'So long and thanks for all the fish' is good but a little bit to catchphrasey to be considered a truly great title.

 

[Gavin Bl]

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

"Diary of a Nobody"

 

[Dr. Furface]

'The Man Without Qualities' by Robert Musil (one of these days I might even get round to reading it!)

 

[DexterTCN]

Jaws

 

[Star Dove]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Kundera had some great titles - I liked 'The book of laughter and forgetting' as well.

 

[keybored]

 

[DotCommunist]

Perdido Street Station

Reapers Gale

Woken Furies

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Will you spell it right?

Thats what proof readers are for.

 

[tufty79]

brief interviews with hideous men

 

[lontok2005]

I have to second (or by now is it 'third') Kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being.' Genius. The title alone is a work of art. I just wonder if it's better, or not quite as beautifully puzzling, in the original. How could it be better?

Get yourself high on acid and think about that title, and you're in for quite a trip.

 

[hash tag]

Is superman circumcised is in the running for the best title this year. My pick goes to classical antiquity in heavy metal music, but that is where my interest lies.

The Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year 2021 Shortlist is Revealed

The six titles that will vie to win the The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year 2021 are announced.

www.thebookseller.com

 

[Oula]

The First Bad Man

 

[imposs1904]

I like Laura Marney's book titles:

• No Wonder I Take A Drink (2004)
• Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby (2005)
• Only Strange People Go to Church (2006)
• My Best Friend has Issues (2008)
• For Faughie's Sake (2014)

 

[fishfinger]

Steal This Book

 

[hitmouse]

The First Bad Man

This is a fairly niche joke, but once me and some friends were going to see Miranda July doing a reading, and one of them went "I've brought along my copy of Batman, Volume 1 Issue 1, for her to sign." I thought that was proper witty. Although having said that, I'm not sure The First Bad Man is even the best Miranda July title, she is very good at titles?

Jarett Kobek (I Hate the Internet, Only Americans Burn in Hell) does good titles. And maybe Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor isn't the greatest book title ever, but it has to be up there for "book titles that sound like post-rock albums"?

 

[Pickman's model]

Possession: demoniacal and otherwise

 

[xenon]

Filth. - Irvin Welsh.

 

[krtek a houby]

Emerald Germs of Ireland - Patrick McCabe

 

[D'wards]

I find Blood Meridian quite an evocative title

 

[D'wards]

Tragically I was an Only Twin

 

[Steel Icarus]

Bukowski had some belters:

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps