Favorite Book Titles

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

I was straightening out some book shelves yesterday, and ran across some older books I had with titles that either impressed me with how beautiful they were, or made me LOL. Here are just a few that stood out:

The Sound of Waves and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, by Mishima Yukio.

All the Lovers in the Night – Kawakami Mieko

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami Haruki.

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight – Onda Riku

The End of the Moment We Had – Okada Toshiki

The Japanese have a knack for intriguing or poetic book titles.

I Still Miss My Man, But My Aim Is Getting Better - Sarah Shankman, and its cousin, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him - Sharyn McCrumb. Ms McCrumb was also the author of Bimboes of the Death Sun.

Somebody Owes Me Money - Donald Westlake. I don't know why this title cracks me up, but it does. Maybe because you just know from the title alone that the book won't end well for 'somebody.'

My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Mosfegh.

Murder Can Upset Your Mother – Selma Eichler

Razorblade Tears – SA Cosby

If I think of more I'll post them.

So what titles have grabbed your attention?

[bif]

1. To Esme with Love and Squalor

[Staph]

2. Sharyn McCrumb also wrote a sequel to Bimboes of the Death Sun

called Zombies of the Gene Pool. A group of long-ago science fiction fans buried their early writing attempts in a pickle jar, a jar now below the deep waters behind the Eugene Breedlove Dam (in the appropriately named Gene Pool). There are jealousies and scandals and a murder or two. Great fun!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

3. Yeah, I've seen that one

But I don't have it on a shelf right now. I have stacks of boxes of books that are waiting for me to get shelves for them, and my copy is in one of them.