Best book titles

[Yellow Fang]

When I was a kid, I found The Wide Sargasso Sea an intriguing book title. I don't know whether it was a good title or not, but I remembered it. The only thing I knew about the Sargasso Sea was that it played a part in the eel lifecycle. I didn't know what the book was about, and would have been put off if I had.

However, my favourite book title is now, Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English, although that's a non-fiction book about journalism.

Do you have a favourite book title?

 

[marinyork]

Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? isn't a bad one.

 

[ufkacbln]

I was given a book of old book covers that have different modern meanings... my favourite is

"Hemorrhoids and their resistance to penetration"

 

[Norm]

Fairly obvious first thoughts from me, but I've always been intrigued by "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

I wouldn't call them intriguing but most books in the Baby Blues (Kirkman and Scott) series raise a smile ("One More & We're Outnumbered" or "Night Of The Living Dad" or "Something Chocolate This Way Comes" or "I thought Labour Ended When The Baby Was Born") as do the earlier offerings of Terry Pratchett (The Colour of Magic, Carpe Jugulum etc).

 

[slowmotion]

Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall

 

[telesonic99]

I like to hunt down obscure titles in charity shops whose authors probably aren't too proud about ever being printed. An early publication I found of a young Richard Dawkins is 'The Tooth Fairy Deception' in which he ceremoniously smashes the myth beyond any logical doubt of the existence of tooth fairies . He doesn't go on to offer an explanation for where the money actually comes from but it's definitely not fairies he says.

I also tracked down an unfinished publication of his, called "Horoscopes?, More Like Bolloscopes"

 

[swee'pea99]

Fear and loathing on the road to Las Vegas

 

[theclaud]

I like to hunt down obscure titles in charity shops whose authors probably aren't too proud about ever being printed. An early publication I found of a young Richard Dawkins is 'The Tooth Fairy Deception' in which he ceremoniously smashes the myth beyond any logical doubt of the existence of tooth fairies . He doesn't go on to offer an explanation for where the money actually comes from but it's definitely not fairies he says.

I also tracked down an unfinished publication of his, called "Horoscopes?, More Like Bolloscopes"

 

[asterix]

A short History of Tractors in the Ukraine. Apparently it's quite a good read and I shall get hold of it one day.

 

[Black Sheep]

"Let sleeping vets lie" - as found on my dad's book shelf.

 

[Ravenbait]

Bester's "The Demolished Man" is a great title. Tim Powers has some good ones. "The Stress of Her Regard", for instance.

Sam

 

[ArDee]

Comical book titles not necessarily the best

"Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog" by Paul Robert Smith

"The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" by Robert Rankin

 

[astrocan]

'From Durer to Stubbs. The Place of the Rhinocerous in the History of Art'

I do not posess the imagination to make that up.

 

[ChrisKH]

My Family and Other Animals

A classic which reminds me I must get it for my eldest as he loves animals.

 

[Muddyfox]

Kisses on a Postcard by Terrence Frisby .. a very enjoyable book as well about 2 brothers that were evacuated from London to the south west during the war

Simon

"Fly Fishing by J R Hartley" ?