Best Book Title Ever

[billy_bob]

Raymond Carver did a good title or two. 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' has been co-opted and riffed on so many times that it's taken on an air of 'Keep Calm and Carry On', but on it's own terms it's great. As are 'So Much Water So Close to Home', 'A Small Good Thing', 'Will You Please Be Quiet Please?' ... among others.


Novelist and short story writer Jon Macgregor is probably influenced by Carver with titles like 'If No-one Speaks of Remarkable Things', 'So Many Ways to Begin', 'This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You'

 

[porp]

I'll Go to Bed at Noon

By Gerard Woodward.

Liked the book, loved the title. Aspirational!

 

[porp]

Nobody Writes to the Colonel, by Marquez I think.

I like the way that the Spanish original title works completely differently in terms of syntax

El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba

 

[JimW]

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

I don't know who wrote it, I just know Tortoise nicked it for their album title.

 

[Duncan2]

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

I don't know who wrote it, I just know Tortoise nicked it for their album title.

Have we had Trout Fishing in America?Remember being wowed by that as a student eons ago.Also in terms of children's literature Down the Bright Stream by BB and Ruskin's King Of The Golden River.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

There is a childrens' book called "Poo Bum" which is a great succinct title and a funny book.

 

[seeformiles]

For me it’s a toss up between this one my brother brought home one day (The villain of the piece rejoices in the name of “Dirk Eastways”) - although it’s attained mythical status since



And this one which promises so much behind its plain cover:

 

[Sprocket.]

Second From Last in the Sack Race by David Nobbs.