Books With Interesting Titles

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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

by Steven Sherrill

724 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: elkiedee, Charon07, T-Morison

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I Still Miss My Man But My Aim Is Getting Better

by Sarah Shankman

102 members

1 review

½ 3.3

3 Members: edparks, elkiedee, T-Morison
Explanations: elkiedee: I remember this title and it's definitely intriguing but I don't think I've read it.

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

by Douglas Adams

11,799 members

118 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dhm, elkiedee, T-Morison
Explanations: dhm: interesting in its ability to make me feel comfortable
elkiedee: I have this on my Kindle TBR. Douglas Adams has a few great titles!

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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

by Christopher Moore

3,123 members

78 reviews

3.8

3 Members: edparks, Charon07, T-Morison

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Have the Men Had Enough?

by Margaret Forster

161 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: charl08, T-Morison

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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

by Maile Meloy

660 members

32 reviews

3.9

3 Members: edparks, elkiedee, T-Morison

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Bimbos of the Death Sun

by Sharyn McCrumb

1,045 members

33 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: elkiedee: I have a copy of this somewhere, still TBR - it is an intriguing title. Thanks for adding some intriguing titles to the list.

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Brief in die Auberginenrepublik: Roman

by Abbas Khider

16 members

1 review

½ 3.6

2 Members: spiphany, T-Morison

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Granny Made Me an Anarchist

by Stuart Christie

162 members

4 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, T-Morison
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought for the title. I think one or two of the booksellers who worked at my local Ottakars branch at the time also likes a good title, as sfter Waterstones took over and shut this branch, they started an independent bookshop over the road, wjereim I found a few great books with brilliant titles!

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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

by Karen Russell

1,553 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, spiphany
Explanations: elkiedee: Bought in my local indie bookshop on the strength of the title

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Hand Me Down World

by Lloyd Jones

318 members

28 reviews

3.8

2 Members: spiphany, T-Morison

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

2,278 members

110 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, spiphany
Explanations: elkiedee: Some great titles on your list, including some that have caught my eye too.Thanks

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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

by Garth Nix

1,003 members

48 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: I loved some of Nix's other work, but the title is the clincher here.

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

by Lorrie Moore

1,327 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: My paperback TBR

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Lives of the Monster Dogs

by Kirsten Bakis

1,025 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Charon07

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The Man Who Walked through Walls

by Marcel Aymé

467 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Helenliz

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What They Did to Princess Paragon

by Robert Rodi

179 members

1 review

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera

by George S. Chappell

35 members

2 reviews

2.9

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: found in a used book store

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

11,396 members

640 reviews

3.8

2 Members: edparks, elkiedee

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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

by Robert Rankin

1,553 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Yes, I enjoyed the book nearly as much as the title. Quirky PI novel set in Toyland. Still need to read the sequel, The Toyminator.

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The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas

by Edward Gorey

645 members

14 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God

by Joe Coomer

252 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: edparks

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers

2,277 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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Schismatrix

by Bruce Sterling

574 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: Choose your syllable to emphasize

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You Can't Iron a Wrinkled Birthday Suit

by Sharon Phennah

24 members

2 reviews

½ 2.3

Member: edparks

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Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,417 members

217 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills

by Charles Bukowski

570 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: edparks

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Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks

by Christopher Brookmyre

430 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Paperback TBR and one of several attention grabbing titles by Christopher Brookmyre

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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

by Tom Robbins

2,623 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: edparks

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Cinderella Goes to the Morgue

by Nancy Spain

24 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: One of several books by the author I hope to read soon. Library book TBR

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The Lost Language of Cranes

by David Leavitt

1,253 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line

by Ruth Thomas

12 members

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Serialised on Radio 4, Library TBR

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Island of the Sequined Love Nun

by Christopher Moore

3,119 members

82 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: edparks

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Driving in Cars with Homeless Men: Stories

by Kate Wisel

23 members

1 review

3.9

Member: edparks

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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: Stories

by Robert Boswell

60 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: edparks

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove

by Karen Russell

1,415 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

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A Universal History of Infamy

by Jorge Luis Borges

1,330 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: spiphany

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Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

by Stanisław Lem

979 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany

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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

by Gretchen McCulloch

944 members

40 reviews

4

Member: spiphany

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Monday Begins on Saturday

by Arkadi Strugatski

569 members

16 reviews

4

Member: spiphany

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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary

by Caspar Henderson

443 members

12 reviews

4

Member: spiphany

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The Time Regulation Institute

by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

403 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany

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Love Warps the Mind a Little

by John Dufresne

236 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: edparks

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The Faculty of Useless Knowledge

by Yury Dombrovsky

168 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany

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Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman

by Nicole Loraux

77 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: Read sections of this as assigned reading for a Greek lit class, but the title is what stuck with me...

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The Restless Supermarket

by Ivan Vladislavić

72 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: spiphany

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The Wrecking Light

by Robin Robertson

67 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany

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Lucifer Unemployed

by Aleksander Wat

58 members

1 review

3.2

Member: spiphany

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Irreführung der Behörden

by Jurek Becker

48 members

1 review

3.8

Member: spiphany

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The Half-God of Rainfall

by Inua Ellams

35 members

1 review

4.2

Member: spiphany

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Institute for Taxi Poetry

by Imraan Coovadia

13 members

2 reviews

4

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: I'm afraid I never warmed up to this one, though both title and concept sounded like something I would love.

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The Book of Imprudent Flora

by Claudio Romo

11 members

4

Member: spiphany

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Wild Ducks Flying Backward

by Tom Robbins

947 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: edparks

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Skinny Legs and All

by Tom Robbins

4,279 members

45 reviews

4

Member: edparks

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There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake

by Hazel Edwards

199 members

1 review

4.2

Member: elkiedee

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Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon

by Marjane Satrapi

79 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Another Big Green Bookshop buy from their picture book shelves, and a huge hit with my son 7+ years ago. I wish the publishers would reprint this for today's small children.

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