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October 24, 2017

10 Books You’ll Want To Read Based on Their Intriguing Super Fun Long Titles

Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week’s topic is Top 10 Unique Book Titles. This post is my variation on the theme.

It can’t be easy for an author to decide on the title of his or her book. How can you encapsulate the entirety of a story in just a few words?

The majority of fiction books have two- or three-word titles, but there are some great titles out there that break out of this traditional mold. Below is a list of 10 of my favorites. They all have at least seven words in the title and are books I’ve either read or have on my TBR.

 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer

 

 

 

 

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, by Julie Andrews Edwards

 

 

 

 

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami

 

 

 

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon

 

 

 

 

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Saenz

 

 

 

 

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson

 

 

 

 

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg

 

 

 

 

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor To a Nation, by M.T. Anderson

 

 

 

 

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Neil Gaiman

 

 

 

The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me, Ruby Oliver, by E. Lockhart

 

 

 

 

 

What are some of your favorite long book titles? Share in the comments below!

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  1. Michelle @ Pink Polka Dot Books says

    October 24, 2017 at 10:35 am

    YES!! I love a long title– and The Boyfriend List is one of my fave books EVER!

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  2. Brittaney says

    October 24, 2017 at 11:50 am

    I watched the film for The Hundred Year Old Man…and never laughed so hard in my life!

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    • Kristen says

      October 24, 2017 at 6:11 pm

      I didn’t know there was a movie version – adding it to my Netflix queue right now!

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  3. Cholla says

    October 24, 2017 at 11:54 am

    Hah! You’re so right – i want to pick up all of these now. 😀

    Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thanks!

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  4. Jessica | ReadingwithJessica says

    October 24, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    Love all these titles!! Great choices!!! I think my favorite would have to be: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me, Ruby Oliver, by E. Lockhart. Sounds very interesting!! Great post!!

    My TTT:Unique Book Titles

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  5. Jo says

    October 24, 2017 at 3:42 pm

    I’m not actually keen on long titles, they’re hard to remember! The Guernsey one sounds very interesting though.
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/top-ten-tuesday-130/

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    • Kristen says

      October 24, 2017 at 6:13 pm

      You’re right, they are hard to remember! I usually end up calling them by one or two words from the title.

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  6. Aj @ Read All The Things! says

    October 24, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    Haha, these are awesome. I can never remember long titles. (Or short ones, actually.)

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