Title basically says it all. I’m trying to build a list of titles that hit a certain note. I’m looking for a balance of eccentricity and provocation, titles that stand out. Here’s a few:
If on a winters night a traveler
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
The catcher in the rye
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters
The sailer who fell from grace with the sea
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Clockwork Orange
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Me Talk Pretty One Day
He Talk Like a White Boy
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Things in Jars
How to Raise Your IQ By Eating Gifted Children
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
A few of my faves for their titles alone!
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Girl, Woman, Other
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
A Confederacy of Dunces
Started Early, Took My Dog
Trout Fishing in America
Christ Stopped at Eboli
If This Is A Man
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Revenge of The Middle-Aged Woman
This may not count, but Chuck Tingle’s titles are certainly something. I’ll let you look them up at your own nsfw risk 🙂
A few of my favorites, in no particular order:
On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)
All My Puny Sorrows (Miriam Toews)
It Must be Beautiful to be Finished (Kate Gies)
How Much of These Hills is Gold (C Pam Zhang)
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (Maddie Mortimer)
The Two Kinds of Decay (Sarah Manguso)