Great book titles

Censorsh!t

So, I know you should never judge a book by its cover or title or that, but some books just have amazing titles.

Some personal favourites:

That they may face the rising sun
As I lay dying
No One belongs here more than you
Don't tell me the truth about love
The unbearable lightness of being
Their eyes were watching god
When I was five I killed myself
Heart of darkness


That's only a small number. I could go on a bit longer but won't. Does anyone else have favourite book titles?

Flash86

Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez

Sit Down and Shut up by Brad Warner. (It's about zen meditation)

Is that a Fish in your Ear? by David Bellos. (It's about Translation)

Toby Take a Bow

Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters (which is let down by Seymour, An Introduction which it's included with).

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Of Human Bondage

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me - Richard Farina

padraig_f

Some I like....

Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway (all of Hemingway's are good)
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things - JT Leroy
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The Outsider - Albert Camus
How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman

Hermy

The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
1984

Manach

Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Hermy

Also Catch 22

wow sierra

Everything by Chris Brookmyre - the first book by him I read was "A big boy did it and ran away" Couldn't resist a name like that. Also by him:

One fine day in the middle of the night
All fun and games until someone loses an eye
The attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks
Great writer too.

Another book I baught just for the title was "A short history of tractors in Ukrainian" -

Captain Graphite

John Dies At The End - David Wong

Haven't read it yet but I definitely will soon, just 'cause the name jumped out at me.

mikeyboy

"How to Be a Pope: What to Do and Where to Go Once You're in the Vatican" Piers Marchant
"Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself" Dale L. Power
"Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics" Susan Signe Morrison
"Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich" James A. Yannes
"Peek-a-Poo: What's In Your Diaper?" Guido van Genechten

And one that is particularly relevant to this thread

"How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read" Pierre Bayard

old gregg

Hold My Hand I'm Dying by John Gordon Davis