The Best Literary Title You Know

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Originally Posted by Katy North

Kafka on the Shore.

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I second this.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.
Everything is Illuminated
Love in the Time of Cholera
The God of Small Things
Brave New World (was this taken from The Tempest?)
At Swim-Two-Birds
The Bell Jar
If This is a Man
A Tranquil Star
Cry, the Beloved Country
Things Fall Apart
I haven't read it, but A Thousand Splendid Suns caught my eye in Waterstones recently.

There are so many others. I'm always disappointed when a title is original and promising, but the book doesn't live up to its name.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

And although it's mostly non-fiction, My Tank Is Fight. A book on different types of weaponry.

Some of my favorite titles (from different genres):-


A Midsummer Night's Dream
Waiting for Godot
The Guide (The title is quite apt to the novel.)
The Shadow Lines
Untouchable
Things Fall Apart
And Then There Were None

How about Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter?

On a more serious note, how about:
Tender is the Night
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Paradise Lost
The Sound and the Fury

And that's to name but a few...

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Originally Posted by Snowqueen

East of Eden and Far from the Madding Crowd.

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Hmm, both lifted though - allusions count?

I quite like Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up:ack2:

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
As I Lay Dying
On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, even though it's an essay.
Slaughterhouse Five
Breakfast of Champions

Tender is the Night
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sound and the Fury
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Stars My Destination

I've always liked:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Midsummer Night's Dream

I saw a 'young adult' book with the title, ''Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You''. I thought it was quite nice.

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Against The Day
The Kindly Ones
Monday Begins On Saturday
Waves Extinguish The Wind
Consider Phlebas
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

There are of course many more, however, it seems that if one considers a book good then it's title also seems interesting. It's not absolute, of course, but there's a leaning, methinks.

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Originally Posted by mikey

'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' (Seth Grahame-Smith) caught my eye. What it says on the tin apparently.

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'Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters' (no kidding, that's real too)

One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Watership Down.

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Monday Begins On Saturday

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Being the kind of person who gets easily intrigued by titles, makes me wonder what this book might be about! :D

Maybe a little more modern, but I like:
Another Roadside Attraction
Trout Fishing in America
A Confederacy of Dunces
Lost in the Funhouse
Everything that Rises Must Converge
to name a few

Oh and I totally forgot Something Wicked This Way Comes, To Kill a Mockingbird and Someplace to be Flying.