Topic: The Best Titles for a Novel or Book.

The greatest names for books, I'm talking 'Titles' not necessarily the content.

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I like;

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

A Confederacy of Dunces

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Children from Dark Houses  (From tNBW - by Knighthawk)

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The Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius.
Do Bananas Chew Gum?
ELvis is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself
You Suck
Tell the Wolves I'm Home

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"I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion."

– Ernest Dowson

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5 Reply by corra (edited by corra 2015-10-13 20:08:03)

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The Sound & the Fury:
"She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

The Winter of Our Discontent (probably my favorite in this list) -
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."

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The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
All Quiet on the Western Front
Of Mice & Men
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Grass Is Singing
Leaves of Grass (Leaves like pages! It took me quite some time to figure that out! Which is apparently something I shouldn't tell people.)
Long Day's Journey Into Night

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I wouldn't have picked this up voluntarily. It was assigned. My first science fiction! It was actually pretty good, once it got going.

I really like the title: The Left Hand of Darkness.

From the book:

"Light is the left hand of darkness,
and darkness the left hand of light."

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