List book titles that are complete sentences. Harder than it looks! (by the traditional definition, a sentence needs a subject and a verb - verbs are often absent in book titles)

River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Shake Hands With the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
Can You Hear the Nightbird Sing? by Anita Rau Badami
All My Patients are Under the Bed by Louis J. Camuti
Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy

My library includes:

The Universe Is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme
He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott
But God is not defeated by Samuel E Kayanga
The Crucified Jesus Is No Stranger by Sebastian Moore
Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
Sir Apolo Kagwa Discovers Britain by Ham Mukasa
Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher
The Sun Will Be Rising by Akol Meyan Kuol
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This by Margaret Burt
Where is my home? by various
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Then I'm not sure whether the following can be considered complete sentences or just clauses, despite having subjects and verbs:

When life was rusted through by Owen Letcher
When the Lights Go Out by Tanith Lee
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
When There Was Steam by Tony Barfield
Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner

But you're right, dihiba, that complete sentences are rare - this is less than 2% of the titles in my library.

Of course, there are lots of books that become complete when you include subtitles, but using only actual titles, I have:
Bitter is the New Black
Josh McDowell Answers Five Tough Questions
He Still Moves Stones
Do I Look Fat in This?
Stick A Geranium In Your Hat And Be Happy!
Know what you believe also,
Know Why You Believe
He Chose the Nails
It Had to be a Monday
Discover Balboa Park
Your Money Counts
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Don't waste your life
Love Your God with All Your Mind
Grace Rules
Lord, I Believe
Keep in Step With the Spirit
Dare to Discipline (although mine is the new version)
Snap Out of It
Never Be Lied To Again (not actually in my library, but on my library wishlist)
Who Knew?
If There's a God, Why Are There Atheists?
How Should We Then Live?

Upon review, it seems that most of my "full sentence" titles are Christian and/or apologetics books. Interesting.

BTW, this represents about 6% of my collection.

Is this a duplication of the currently active List Five Books Parlour Game - Complete Sentences?

Correct me if I'm wrong, johnthefireman, but "Women who run with the wolves" is not a complete sentence.

#5, mamajoan, I think you're right - it's got a subject and verb but isn't a complete sentence. Thanks - I think I was getting tired by the time I reached "w" in my catalogue!

Seems Joyce Carol Oates likes sentence titles... =)

I'll Take You There
Do With Me What You Will
You Must Remember This
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
We Were the Mulvaneys
Come Meet Muffin!
Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Where Is Here?: Stories
Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories
I Am No One You Know: Stories
Where Is Little Reynard?

Just going down the TagMash for "Baseball, Mystery":

Strike three you're dead
The girl who loved Tom Gordon (fragment)
Follow the Sharks (fragment)
Take Me Out to the Ballgame

This is a favourite one:

No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again
by Edgardo Vega Yunque

infosleuth, that is fantastic!

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Let the Wind Speak
Carry Me Down
Forget Kathmandu
It's not about the Bike
Everything is Illuminated
Things Fall Apart

Hmm, that lot were all on the first page of my library! So on that evidence it's about 7% :-)

Hmm, this is harder than I thought.

A funny thing happened on the way to church
He is Risen
We are still married
What shall I say?
Who do you say that I am?

about 3.5% of my books

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This one popped into my head but I bow to any English teachers to decide if I am correct or not in it being a sentince.

Earth Abides

Nice one! From amongst my favourite books:

God is No Laughing Matter (Julia Cameron)
Count Your Blessings (Dr John De Martini)
Screw It, Let's Do It (Richard Branson)
Do They Hear You When You Cry? (Fauziya Kassindja)
I Believe in Angels (Patricia Wendorf)
We're All Doing Time (Bo Lozoff)
Family Matters :-) (Rohinton Mistry)

Oh dear, I am procrastinating today. As a result, I have discovered the following:

Carter Beats the Devil
Why do buses come in threes?
Is God really in control?
Oranges are not the only fruit
Blame the sky
My name is Red
Uh... Hey... Mom and Dad, I'm dropping out of college
Why do we say that?
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Looking up the aisle
Mister God, This is Anna
Bring in the Spring
Does W trouble you?

Plus We didn't mean to go to sea sprung into my mind. So, the upshot of that is that I'm going to get into the lab later than I was already (oooooops) and my percentage is actually more like 2.5%. I have obviously been buying books recently which have sentencey titles... I blame LibraryThing.

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume--That one's got two sentences!
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Trick is To Keep Breathing

Horsewatching: Why does a horse whinny and everything else you wanted to know by Desmond Morris

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: understanding philosophy through jokes by Thomas Cathcart

Were Adam and Eve Episcopalians: Answers to this and other perplexing questions which may be bothering you by Norman Shadley. I'm the only one in LT with this book -- mostly very funny cartoons from a "Canon" at the Detroit Cathedral.

Are you being served?: the inside story of Britain's funniest--and public television's favorite--comedy series. by Adrian Rigelsford.

Screwtape Proposes a Toast the sequel usually published with "The Screwtape Letters." by CS Lewis

A few from my library:

And then there were none
Anything considered
The ape who guards the balance
Armour wherein he trusted
The birds fall down
The Brontes went to Woolworths
Cheerfulness breaks in
Consider this, Senora
Cry, the beloved country
Daddy was a number runner
A deputy was king
Don Camillo takes the devil by the tail
Don't tell Mama!
East is East
Elephants can remember
The fountain overflows

I don't think I saw any mention of

Something wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury.

Over at Language Log, Prof. Pullum has been looking at a sort of opposite question, books whose titles are not even syntactic constituents: More books with non-constituent titles.

Some from my library ... interesting -- they're mostly funny.

A Complaint is a Gift
Are Your Lights On?
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Does Anything Eat Wasps?
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
I Could Tell You Stories
I Feel Bad About My Neck
I Like You
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Ron Carlson Writes a Story
Something Happened
The Devil Wears Prada
There Are No Children Here
This is Your Brain on Music
We Are All Welcome Here
What Einstein Told His Cook
When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull up a Chair
You Are a Dog
You're Lucky You're Funny

Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
Come Be My Light, Mother Teresa
You Can't Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe
Kiss My Tiara
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
As Hot as It Was, You Ought to Thank Me, Nanci Kincaid
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie (it's all in how you read that one)
They Call Me Naughty Lola, collection of ads from London Review of Books personals
Sweet Dove Died, Barbara Pym
Eat a Bowl of Tea. Louis Chu
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Anything Goes, Jill Churchill
Tell No One, Harlan Coben
This Was Burlesque, Ann Corio
Run River, Joan Didion
Play It as It Lays, Joan Didion
Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
French Women Don't Get Fat
The Dog Dialed 911 (The Smoking Gun)
Hannibal Rising, Thomas Harris

I was just reading this at work (shame on me) and one comes to mind.
Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak.
Classic kids' literature.

Welcome to the Funny Farm by Karen Linamen
Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
My Heart May be Broken, but my hair still looks great by Dixie Cash
She's Not There by Jennifer Boylan

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger

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Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid by Tibor Fischer
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Fierce Invalids Come From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
How Much For Just the Planet? by John M. Ford
I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman
In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
Lady Slings the Booze by Spider Robinson
The Law Is For All by Aleister Crowley
Nirvana Bites by Debi Alper
Passion Is a Fashion by Pat Gilbert
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
Things Snowball by Rich Hall
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Tragically I Was an Only Twin by Peter Cook
We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
What Do You Think of the 21st Century So Far? by David Austin

Oh, and almost everything by Ashleigh Brilliant.

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