The Known World (great example of a title having multiple levels of significance) Things Fall Apart Naked Lunch Of Mice and Men (this title sounds like someone's stroking his beard and philosophizing) Blood Meridian Mona Lisa Overdrive (anything with Mona Lisa in the title is badass in my book) As I Lay Dying The Bell Jar Stranger in a Strange Land Red Earth and Pouring Rain
I have this bad habit of buying books because I like the title. Just taking a glance at my bookshelf: Tropic of Cancer Tender is the Night Trainspotting The Painted Veil A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Half-Known World (was with writing books at the library so I checked it out but the first two words were "Like sex," and then it was a bunch of random essays).
Writing down the Bones (I just think it's kind of interesting, and wonder what it means).
An Abundance of Katherines (why not?)
And that's all I can come up with at the moment.
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"...the great tragedy of the world is not that people suffer, but how much they miss when they suffer. Nothing is quite as depressing as wasted pain, agony without an ultimate meaning or purpose." ~Fulton Sheen
Accidental Creatures The History of Our World Beyond The Wave Boatmurdered The Dosadi Experiment The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant Empire of The Angels Us, Gods Our Friends, The Humans The Encyclopedia of Relative & Absolute Knowledge A Year in The Merde Teacher Man The Alphabet of Manliness Fifth Business Shake Hands With The Devil
Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman Neuromancer - William Gibson The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish - Neil Gaiman Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson You Are Going to Prison - Jim Hogshire The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews
Around here:
Jake the Blintz - *raspil The Night They Tobogganed Bob - *Zhinggibiis (looks like he took it down) Nobody writes about cavemen - =fense the lollipop philosophy - ~wh0rem0ans A Jar of Spare People - ~benmcfly The Great Shaft of '84 - *jonzoiplu I Love Flu - `GeneratingHype
Brave New World Lord of the Flies Jennifer Government Company 25th Hour
to name a few
-- "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."
Somebody Knows My Name (The cover, in combination with the name, made me fall apart in tears.) A History of Madness The Ash Garden King Leopold's Ghost Images of Sound The Meaning of Night Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (If you know what biloquist means, this is a great title.)
Those are just the ones fresh in my mind, since I bought them all just recently. Sadly, I have all of those, and I haven't read any.
Tender is the Night is another good title. Someone said it already though.
The World According to Garp - John Irving Hunger - Knut Hamsun Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters - JD Salinger Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
All of Kurt Vonnegut's books (stolen from Wiki)
* Player Piano (1952) * The Sirens of Titan (1959) * Mother Night (1961) * Cat's Cradle (1963) * God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls before Swine (1965) * Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade (1969) * Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (1973) * Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More (1976) * Jailbird (1979) * Deadeye Dick (1982) * Galáagos (1985) * Bluebeard (1987) * Hocus Pocus (1990) * Timequake (1997) * Canary in a Cathouse (1961) * Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works (1968) * Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) * Palm Sunday (1981) * Fates Worse than Death (1991) * Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999) * God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) * A Man Without a Country (2005) * Armageddon in Retrospect (2008, posthumous)
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The Known World (great example of a title having multiple levels of significance)
Things Fall Apart
Naked Lunch
Of Mice and Men (this title sounds like someone's stroking his beard and philosophizing)
Blood Meridian
Mona Lisa Overdrive (anything with Mona Lisa in the title is badass in my book)
As I Lay Dying
The Bell Jar
Stranger in a Strange Land
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
I haven't read like half of those.
Hop to it.