Inspired by a post over on r/movies and I searched and found that it has been a while since this question was asked.
Mine would be:
– The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
– She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock
– I Make Envy on Your Disco by Eric Schnall
– Tunnelling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
– What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
by ——–rook
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“A Vindication of the Rights of Whores”
Is one of my absolute favorites.
Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
I’ve never read it, but I love the title.
*The Hare With Amber Eyes* by Edmund de Waal.
*True Grit* by Charles Portis.
No Country for Old Men is a brilliant title.
The Human Santapede
*The 120 Days of Sodom,* Donatien Alphonse François.
If on a winter’s night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
An incredibly imaginative work and a great title
Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
– Ninjas in my Bedroom by Dmytro Kolesnyk
– Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
– The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen
I really like most, if not all, of William Faulkner’s
“The Sound and the Fury” being a favourite.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish – Katya Apekina
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Our wives under the sea
The ocean at the end of the lane
A monster calls
On earth were briefly gorgeous
We Have Always Lived In The Castle – Shirley Jackson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
I who have never known men. Haven’t read the book yet but love the title.
My favourite, that leaves you hanging, repeating it in your head:
“There but for the”
Ali Smith
Do androids dream of electric sheep? By Philip K. Dick
She’s Come Undone
Joke Farming
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
It’s nice to see Kundera and Calvino represented here.
Genital Grinder
I found puppets living in my apartment walls
Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
Eeeee Eee Eeee
The Cannibals of Candyland
Satan Burger
Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland
I’m a lifelong lover of titles, but off the top of my head “The Slow Regard of Silent Things” by Patrick Rothfuss is probably my favorite.
Stars Like Sand in My Pocket by Samuel R. Delany. It was so evocative, I remembered it as a kid for a long time. When much later I readi t I was also impressed how well it fit.
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane (it’s about AI, and the author tried to have AI write pickup lines as an experiment. This was something the AI came up with.).
Half of a yellow sun
The masque of the red death
The kaiju preservation society
The book of disquiet
Pride and prejudice and zombies
Any of those cozy books like days at the whatawhata bookshop
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
I was introduced to HP Lovecraft when I saw the book The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Stories. I HAD to know what that “thing” was.