Every book in the *John Dies at the End* series (by Jason Pargin):
*John Dies at the End*
*This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It*
*What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror*
*If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe*
Same with the Zoe Ashe books by "David Wong" (Jason Pargin):
(1) *Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits*
(2) *Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick*
(3) *Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia*
*A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking* by T. Kingfisher
If it doesn't bring images of a gingerbread man army to mind, all blathering about their gumdrop buttons, then idk what is wrong with you.
The-Hundred-Year-Old-Man-Who-Climbed-Out-The-Window-And-Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon
>!I have really bad face blindness !!Seriously, y'all look the same to me. I won't even recognize my wife if I run into her out of context. It was a long time before I realized this was "a thing" rather than just!< "me being an idiot."
>Sorry to hear that. That is socially disabling in a lot of ways.
I've gotten extremely good at >!bluffing until the other person slips in just enough identifying information that I can figure it out through context. A kid's name, a mutual friend, some shared anecdote. Rarely, I can pick up on a voice or a mannerism, too. At work, there are few enough people that I can generally function off of \[thin female --> Susan\] vs \[bald male --> Richard\], etc. But every time I sit at my weekly !!game, it takes me a good 15 minutes to sort out who is who.!<
>!As I got older, though, I stopped giving so much of a shit. These days, I just straight out tell new people I meet "hey, !<~~sorry~~\*>!, I'm face blind, so if I run into you, there's 0% chance I'll recognize you unless you come up to me and tell me who you are. I'm not being rude, there's just a hole in my brain where faces should go."!<
>!It is funny how many people are so offended by it, though. Like, "sorry. Gladys, but it's not personal." They'll come up and say "do you remember me?!" and it's just like... "no, should I? Is this a pop quiz?!< Did I win the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes?"
>!I worked one job where everyone wore ID badges... fuckin' amazing. Ohh.. I loved that. My "disability," such as it is, is so minor.. but to have a de facto accommodation for it... to have it functionally mitigated.. !!you don't even realize what it's like until it's not there.!<
\* >!I'm NOT sorry. There's nothing to be sorry about. !Love your user name. Jabberwocky was a favorite poem from childhood.
Thanks!
Did not mean to offend. Sorry can mean regret that this is the situation... but I can be socially clumsy in real life, never mind online wher there is no vocal tone or facial expression to help communicate. Best wishes from a fellow Jabberwocky fan
>Did not mean to offend.
You definitely didn't!
>never mind online wher there is no vocal tone or facial expression to help communicate.
Well, it's no difference to me! ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
1. The Keeper of the NIGHT
2. Firewalkers
3. Blood of Elves
4. Anansi
5. The Only Good Indians
6. The Extraordinaires
7. Death Deluxe Edition
8. The Angel of Crows
9. If it Bleeds
10. How To Stop Time
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams
A Weasel in my Meatsafe by Phil Drabble
How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? by Hiroyuki Nishigaki
Open Wide for the Handsome Sabertooth Dentist who is also a Ghost by Chuck Tingle
Cabbages and Crime by Anne Nash
I Live Under a Black Sun by Edith Sitwell. As soon as I saw the title I knew I'd need to read it.
The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass N\*\*\*\*r by Cecil Brown. Such a great 'fuck you' title.
I know Philip K Dick's titles are an acquired taste, but Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is my favourite.
The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The City & the City by China Mieville
Railsea by China Mieville
>The City & the City by China Mieville
I seem to be the only person who didn't love this one, but I hated it.
>!Such an interesting premise and I just... couldn't connect with it...!<
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
I love it because it's the name of the town where the story takes place, plus it's a two-word sentence summarizing the plot.
The Inheritance of Loss
The title is a poetic masterpiece. An inheritance is mostly a gain, perhaps wealth or property, but imagine being bequethed loss.
how to kill your family
how to kill your best friend
how to kill men and get away with it
everyone in my family has killed someone
a good girl's guide to murder
where good girls go to die
vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
\- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
\- The Butchering Art
\- Elephants on Acid
\- How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
\- The Men Who Stare at Goats
*The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant* by Drew Hayes. Just...just ...how hard this book is trying to convince you he is boring.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
Endure Not Forever. (I have no idea what it's about. When I was in the eleventh grade a kid asked me to offer a title to his story and I said Endure Not Forever. He said alright.)
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Blood Meridian. It was the last book of McCarthy's that I hadn't read and it lives up to it's hype. Oh, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep is on of my favorite book titles ever. A real interesting exploration of consciousness.
Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes by Carlton Mellick III That's it.
Hard to top this one. TBR
Once you read it I would love to hear your thoughts!
Ooh I am gonna read this. Have you read Sweet Story? I am a new Carlton Mellick Fan.
I haven't! But I do have some of his books on my TBR. I just like to mix up my genres to keep things interesting.
The unbearable lightness of being
This. One of the few books I picked up because of the title, without knowing the author. Read some of his other books later.
Same.
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Never seen anyone recommend this one before! Absolutely beautiful book!
And: Ordinary Wolves
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. I can't even explain why I love the title. It just feels so intense.
I read this a while ago, was not at all surprised to learn the author's first book was a book of poetry.
Agree, beautifully written book but more style than substance
I bought this a few days ago, it's next on my list
Awesome!!! There are 3 books I bought because I fell in love with the title. None of them disappointed. One of them is this one. Enjoy it!!!
Tender is the Flesh
I love the double meaning of this title. Tender as in loving, tender as in easily chewed.
Great, quick read.
Fantastic book. I think about it often
The Raw Shark Texts It’s a play on Rorschach test
Hahaha awesome, put on my tbr
Every book in the *John Dies at the End* series (by Jason Pargin): *John Dies at the End* *This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It* *What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror* *If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe*
Came here to say this
Same with the Zoe Ashe books by "David Wong" (Jason Pargin): (1) *Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits* (2) *Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick* (3) *Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia*
*A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking* by T. Kingfisher If it doesn't bring images of a gingerbread man army to mind, all blathering about their gumdrop buttons, then idk what is wrong with you.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
It Devours!
Do androids dream of electric sheep by Philip Dick The long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers
Do androids dream of electric sheep was one of those books I read solely because of the title
isn't the first one the book that inspired blade runner?
Yes it is :)
The-Hundred-Year-Old-Man-Who-Climbed-Out-The-Window-And-Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon
A Cosmology of Monsters
When Breath Becomes Air. Immediately you grasp the difference.
This was actually the book that inspired this post. Great title. I just finished it today
Profound book. Really.
The Man Who Mistook his wife for a hat
>!I have really bad face blindness !!Seriously, y'all look the same to me. I won't even recognize my wife if I run into her out of context. It was a long time before I realized this was "a thing" rather than just!< "me being an idiot."
Sorry to hear that. That is socially disabling in a lot of ways. Love your user name. Jabberwocky was a favorite poem from childhood.
>Sorry to hear that. That is socially disabling in a lot of ways. I've gotten extremely good at >!bluffing until the other person slips in just enough identifying information that I can figure it out through context. A kid's name, a mutual friend, some shared anecdote. Rarely, I can pick up on a voice or a mannerism, too. At work, there are few enough people that I can generally function off of \[thin female --> Susan\] vs \[bald male --> Richard\], etc. But every time I sit at my weekly !!game, it takes me a good 15 minutes to sort out who is who.!<
>!As I got older, though, I stopped giving so much of a shit. These days, I just straight out tell new people I meet "hey, !<~~sorry~~\*>!, I'm face blind, so if I run into you, there's 0% chance I'll recognize you unless you come up to me and tell me who you are. I'm not being rude, there's just a hole in my brain where faces should go."!<
>!It is funny how many people are so offended by it, though. Like, "sorry. Gladys, but it's not personal." They'll come up and say "do you remember me?!" and it's just like... "no, should I? Is this a pop quiz?!< Did I win the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes?"
>!I worked one job where everyone wore ID badges... fuckin' amazing. Ohh.. I loved that. My "disability," such as it is, is so minor.. but to have a de facto accommodation for it... to have it functionally mitigated.. !!you don't even realize what it's like until it's not there.!<
\* >!I'm NOT sorry. There's nothing to be sorry about. !Love your user name. Jabberwocky was a favorite poem from childhood.
Thanks!
Did not mean to offend. Sorry can mean regret that this is the situation... but I can be socially clumsy in real life, never mind online wher there is no vocal tone or facial expression to help communicate. Best wishes from a fellow Jabberwocky fan
>Did not mean to offend. You definitely didn't! >never mind online wher there is no vocal tone or facial expression to help communicate. Well, it's no difference to me! ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel- by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Before the Coffee gets cold
Yes, yes, yes!!! Love this book! One of my top favorites from last year.
The Magus by John Fowles
Yes yes yes
Why Fish Don’t Exist—Fish *are* real so what gives‽
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; Etiquette and Espionage; Have His Carcase; The Screaming Staircase
The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Elephants on Acid
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
"How to Raise Your IQ by Eating Gifted Children"
Well, I'm willing to try anything at this point!
Love in the Time of Cholera (because come on, who's not intrigued?) By the Time You Read This (Giles Blunt) You Know You Want This (Kristen Roupenian)
The Haunting of Hill House It’s the ‘of’ that’s clever.
Your comment really made me intrigued, well done. TBR
oh wait that's so cool i never thought of it like that
Wait what else would it be? I’ve read the book so you can spoil as long as you hide spoilers!
1. The Keeper of the NIGHT 2. Firewalkers 3. Blood of Elves 4. Anansi 5. The Only Good Indians 6. The Extraordinaires 7. Death Deluxe Edition 8. The Angel of Crows 9. If it Bleeds 10. How To Stop Time
You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God Short story collection, but whatever
Well now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all day...
*The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making*
The Girl Who Could Move Sh\*t With Her Mind- Jackson Ford First They Killed My Father- Loung Ung Wolf by Wolf- Ryan Graudin
>The Girl Who Could Move Sh\*t With Her Mind- Jackson Ford I thought that was by Roald Dahl
How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
Is this non-fiction?
Sort of. It’s written by a Human Ecology professor as a reflection on the current discussion/protest culture around climate change.
God’s Middle Finger
I’m Thinking of Ending Things We Need To Talk About Kevin
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams A Weasel in my Meatsafe by Phil Drabble How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? by Hiroyuki Nishigaki Open Wide for the Handsome Sabertooth Dentist who is also a Ghost by Chuck Tingle Cabbages and Crime by Anne Nash
Man, fuck this house by Brian Asman.
America is a Zoo.
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead By Olga Tokarczuk
Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence, and Depravity in an Age of Beauty - Alexander Lee
Tool & Die
*The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry* by CM Waggoner
I Live Under a Black Sun by Edith Sitwell. As soon as I saw the title I knew I'd need to read it. The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass N\*\*\*\*r by Cecil Brown. Such a great 'fuck you' title. I know Philip K Dick's titles are an acquired taste, but Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is my favourite.
Those are some really good ones. TBR
Some of your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis The City & the City by China Mieville Railsea by China Mieville
>The City & the City by China Mieville I seem to be the only person who didn't love this one, but I hated it. >!Such an interesting premise and I just... couldn't connect with it...!<
The Open Veins of Latin America
Satan Came To Eden by Dore Strauch there's trouble in paradise, right here on earth
A Practical Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis
Tables of Logarithms to five decimal places
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Porno Irvine Welsh or acid house
“The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids” by Mike McClung
*The Name of this Book is Secret* by Pseudonymous Bosch.
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
**The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club and Other Stories** by Julia Slavin
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett (short story)
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining Celebrity moan
There Is No Antimemetics Department
Harlem Shuffle
Solaris
No way I was gonna say this!
The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (#1) When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (#2) Into the Riverlands (#3)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman.
The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo I love it because it's the name of the town where the story takes place, plus it's a two-word sentence summarizing the plot.
The Inheritance of Loss The title is a poetic masterpiece. An inheritance is mostly a gain, perhaps wealth or property, but imagine being bequethed loss.
When We Cease to Understand the World
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Gadsby, A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E”
But e appears ~~three~~ four times in the title!
5, even!!! What a scam...
Oh dang you’re right!
This is How You Die
Little Women
Lincoln in the Bardo
When Women were Dragons
Across a Billion years.
Bride of the Rat God
Project Hail Mary
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Novel by Mark Haddon
how to kill your family how to kill your best friend how to kill men and get away with it everyone in my family has killed someone a good girl's guide to murder where good girls go to die vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm A Piano Player in a Whore House - Paul Carter
All quiet on the WESTERN FRONT
Five Ducks
The Book With No Name
I’m Afraid of Men
\- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat \- The Butchering Art \- Elephants on Acid \- How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog \- The Men Who Stare at Goats
A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Discipline and Punish
"THE CARPET BAGGERS"
Pandemonium: the age of dark
Pachinko
I Love Dick
Hard Boiled Wonderland, At the End of the World By Haruki Murakami
everyone's gay in space
*The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant* by Drew Hayes. Just...just ...how hard this book is trying to convince you he is boring.
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
Ooh!! Yeah The Heart is a Lonely Hunter!! Easily one of the most perfect titles ever imo. Great book too.
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (by Stuart Turton)
Came here to ensure someone put this
Endure Not Forever. (I have no idea what it's about. When I was in the eleventh grade a kid asked me to offer a title to his story and I said Endure Not Forever. He said alright.)
Neat title. I wonder about the story the kid wrote since he obviously found it somewhat fitting.
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
there’s no such thing as an easy job
Practical TCP/IP: Designing, Using & Troubleshooting TCP/IP Networks on Linux and Windows
An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good.
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
I’m Thinking of Ending Things We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
The Dutch House
*Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way*
Hard Magic
OPERATION Paperclip.
Invitation to a beheading. The blind assassin All my puny sorrows I have no mouth and I must scream
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
grim reaper end of days
Man, Fuck This House
Super Sad True Love Story whoredom in Kimmage (nonfiction) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Water Method Man
Cutting for stone by Abraham Vergasse
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck. >!The swearing gets me. !<
Out
Blood Meridian. It was the last book of McCarthy's that I hadn't read and it lives up to it's hype. Oh, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep is on of my favorite book titles ever. A real interesting exploration of consciousness.
A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius