Forgive me if there's another thread related to this topic, but another post related to titles got me thinking. What are your favorite titles, for any popular books, novels or popular nonfiction? Not necessarily a judgment on the quality of the work, although most of my faves are pretty good pieces of writing, too. I guess the major criterion is, Did the title make me pick up the book at some point and look at it. A quick list of some of mine (some of which I've read, some not, at least not yet):
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, Philip K. Dick
Light in August, William Faulkner (there's a not-well-known and nasty funny pun involved in this one)
Lead Us Not into Penn Station, (I don't know the author, it's a collection of short stories I haven't read, but, dam, it's a great title)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Ox-Bow Incident, William Van Tilburg Clark
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
The Green Ripper, John D. MacDonald (you have to read this to get a grip on the innocuous-sounding title; great mystery, worth the effort)
The League of Frightened Men, Rex Stout
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, Donald Barthelme
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
God's Other Son, Don Imus (haven't read it, and the author is a schidt, but ya gotta admit, it's a great title)
The Water-Method Man, John Irving
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, Philip K. Dick
Light in August, William Faulkner (there's a not-well-known and nasty funny pun involved in this one)
Lead Us Not into Penn Station, (I don't know the author, it's a collection of short stories I haven't read, but, dam, it's a great title)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Ox-Bow Incident, William Van Tilburg Clark
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
The Green Ripper, John D. MacDonald (you have to read this to get a grip on the innocuous-sounding title; great mystery, worth the effort)
The League of Frightened Men, Rex Stout
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, Donald Barthelme
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
God's Other Son, Don Imus (haven't read it, and the author is a schidt, but ya gotta admit, it's a great title)
The Water-Method Man, John Irving
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola
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