If You Could Just Pick One...

...great title from all of literature, what would it be?

I've been skimming through the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors, a book I've read before, just looking at the titles.

And there are some knockouts there. Some titles that are just spectacularly good, titles that make you want to go out and buy the book based on them alone.

But if I had to pick just ONE, it would be

An Armful of Warm Girl by W.M. Spackman

akiwiguy said:

When I think about it, one of my favourite books has a rather cool title...

A Scanner Darkly

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You could put together a Pulitzer-winning poetry collection using only Phillip K. Dick titles.

If I had to pick one, however, I think it would be Martian Time-Slip.

Not sure why, but that title has always intrigued me (though I've never read the book). Sort of a blending of old school and new school sci fi in two and a half words.

Also:

Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber.

It works, as Carter intended, as a sort of mystical fantasy evocation, and a promise of a feminist treatise. Brilliant title.