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1lquilter
Feb 25, 2014, 12:20 pm

Thought people might enjoy the currently trending twitter hashtag on "BooksInYourPants" -- twitter.com #BooksInYourPants

For instance, The Call of the Wild in Your Pants.

2AnnaClaire
Feb 25, 2014, 3:58 pm

To pull a few titles off the Zeitgeist page:

  • Catching Fire in Your Pants
  • Jane Eyre in Your Pants
  • The Help in Your Pants
  • 3Yamanekotei
    Edited: Feb 25, 2014, 4:08 pm

    Remarkable Creatures in Your Pants

    ETA: http://www.librarything.com/work/8342908

    4Helenliz
    Feb 25, 2014, 4:10 pm

    Thankyou for posting - some of those have had me sniggering like a good'un.

    5Peace2
    Feb 25, 2014, 5:01 pm

    Thud! in your pants Thud!

    The Prestige in Your Pants The Prestige

    The Wild Boys in Your Pants The Wild Boys

    6bertilak
    Feb 25, 2014, 6:38 pm

    War and Peace in your pants.

    The Secret Sharer in your pants.

    Neuromancer in your pants.

    A Clockwork Orange in your pants.

    How to Win Friends and Influence People in your pants.

    The Day the Martians Came in your pants.

    7Yamanekotei
    Edited: Feb 25, 2014, 9:12 pm

    Something Wicked This Way Comes in your pants

    Got it! :-D

    8Peace2
    Feb 25, 2014, 8:50 pm

    The Sinner in Your Pants

    Fragile Things in Your Pants

    The Harlequin's Dance in Your Pants

    9lquilter
    Feb 25, 2014, 9:15 pm

    did y'all see:

    * Moby Dick in Your Pants

    10AnnaClaire
    Edited: Feb 25, 2014, 10:17 pm

    Taking a (brief) turn about my library:

    * American Colossus in Your Pants
    * All Wound Up in Your Pants
    * The Age of Innocence in Your Pants
    * White Heat in Your Pants

    11jldarden
    Feb 25, 2014, 10:43 pm

    some recent additions to my library;

    Eating Naked in your pants
    Chance in your pants
    A Conspiracy of Paper in your pants
    Diminished Capacity in your pants

    12reconditereader
    Feb 26, 2014, 12:18 am

    Slow Love in your pants

    13AnnaClaire
    Feb 26, 2014, 10:03 am

    One of Our Thursdays is Missing in Your Pants
    The Name of the Rose in Your Pants
    Angels & Demons in Your Pants
    Twelfth Night in Your Pants

    14lorannen
    Feb 26, 2014, 2:21 pm

    I choked on a glass of water reading some of these, and now I'm just going down my library...

    Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World in Your Pants

    15ablachly
    Edited: Feb 26, 2014, 2:25 pm

    Water for Elephants in your pants.

    The Stranger in your pants.

    Guns, Germs and Steel in your pants.

    16ablachly
    Feb 26, 2014, 2:26 pm

    The God of Small Things in your pants.

    17kjgormley
    Feb 26, 2014, 2:35 pm

    State of Wonder in your pants.
    The Accidental Billionaires in your pants.
    Coriolanus in your pants.
    Fangirl in your pants.

    18Yamanekotei
    Feb 26, 2014, 2:57 pm

    Trilogy
    Gifts in your pants
    Voices in your pants
    Powers in your pants

    The Other Wind in your pants
    The Beginning Place in your pants
    Four Ways to Forgiveness in your pants

    Inheritance in your pants

    19AnnaClaire
    Feb 26, 2014, 4:29 pm

    >16 ablachly: Similarly,
    The Footnote in Your Pants

    20TooBusyReading
    Feb 26, 2014, 6:55 pm

    And as much as I hate to be the one who says it, Everybody Poops in your pants.

    21thorold
    Feb 27, 2014, 1:38 am

    22timspalding
    Feb 27, 2014, 11:26 am

    From my collection…

    Check me out…
    Beautiful Evidence in Your Pants

    Ouch…
    Python Hacks in Your Pants
    Tiger! Tiger! in your Pants

    Ew…
    Silicon snake oil in Your Pants

    What?
    Bury Me Standing in Your Pants

    My Almodóvar script:
    Anarquia in Your Pants

    Keep those pants on, sir…
    Walking the Bible in Your Pants.

    Yeah, that's what I call him…
    Antigonos the One-eyed in Your Pants

    23matthewmason
    Feb 27, 2014, 11:36 am

    ...Curculio in Your Pants?

    Oh, and obviously:

    Inferno in Your Pants, followed by Purgatory in Your Pants, then finally Paradiso in Your Pants.

    24thorold
    Feb 27, 2014, 11:52 am

    If we're going all Latin, what about

    Tomorrow in the battle, think on me in your pants
    One hundred years of solitude in your pants
    Like water for chocolate in your pants
    Caramelo in your pants

    ...or the minimalist approach of the book I'm reading at the moment:
    Nada in your pants

    25timspalding
    Edited: Feb 27, 2014, 12:08 pm

    From the programming side, well, the whole "hacks" series just makes me wince here. There's a lot of similar ones. The Subtle Knife in Your Pants? Blender For Dummies in Your Pants? Ow! ow! ow!

    Euphemistic…
    How to Do Everything with Your Palm Powered Device In Your Pants

    Agatha Christie's contribution
    The Moving Finger In Your Pants

    26EdgarSprings
    Feb 27, 2014, 12:08 pm

    Sorry about burning them, but...

    It was on fire when I lay down on it in your pants

    27sturlington
    Feb 27, 2014, 12:15 pm

    This one struck me as poetic...

    Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand in Your Pants

    Or if you want to get all high and mighty about it...

    The Gods Themselves in Your Pants

    28Eleanor_Henry
    Edited: Feb 27, 2014, 12:25 pm

    Good Omens in your pants

    29Eleanor_Henry
    Feb 27, 2014, 12:26 pm

    Counting by 7's in your pants

    30Eleanor_Henry
    Feb 27, 2014, 12:27 pm

    Center of Everything in your pants

    31tophats
    Feb 27, 2014, 12:34 pm

    32reconditereader
    Feb 27, 2014, 12:56 pm

    Wish You Were Here in Your Pants

    33tardis
    Feb 27, 2014, 1:06 pm

    The Spheres of Heaven in your pants.

    34lorax
    Feb 27, 2014, 1:40 pm

    From the programming side, well, the whole "hacks" series just makes me wince here.

    The "...in Action" series (from Manning) is as amusing and less cringe-worthy.

    35timspalding
    Feb 27, 2014, 2:20 pm

    :)

    36Yamanekotei
    Feb 27, 2014, 2:25 pm

    Unicorn and Dragon in your pants
    Animal Dreams in your pants
    Have a Little Faith in your pants
    Holes in your pants

    37timspalding
    Feb 27, 2014, 2:29 pm

    It's not often I wish LibraryThing had a "like" button.

    38nhlsecord
    Feb 27, 2014, 2:59 pm

    Salt in your pants

    The Martian in your pants

    The Stand in your pants

    The Canadian Adventure in your pants

    Come Hell or High Water In your pants

    The Canadian Establishment in your pants

    Troopers and Redskins in your pants

    Food That Really Schmecks in your pants

    Mrs. John Graves Simcoe in your pants

    My Canadian shelf has a lot to offer :-)

    39lorax
    Feb 27, 2014, 3:00 pm

    I'm a little surprised nobody has yet pointed out the rich vein of "The Adventures Of...In Your Pants".

    40sturlington
    Feb 27, 2014, 5:08 pm

    41Yamanekotei
    Feb 27, 2014, 5:27 pm

    42lquilter
    Edited: Feb 27, 2014, 7:30 pm

    43lquilter
    Feb 27, 2014, 7:32 pm

    oh oh oh!

    Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things in Your Pants

    44AsYouKnow_Bob
    Edited: Feb 27, 2014, 7:56 pm

    (Pfft. This game is too easy...)

    Edna Ferber's Giant ...in Your Pants
    There must be a score of books titled Monster...in Your Pants

    And for the hentai fans, there's Frank Norris' The Octopus ...in Your Pants

    (OK - to be slightly more subtle: there's a book called The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.... in Your Pants . . .

    ...I think I'll stop there.

    45AsYouKnow_Bob
    Feb 27, 2014, 8:00 pm

    46lorax
    Feb 27, 2014, 10:22 pm

    44>

    You win.

    (Anyone who doesn't get the reference, that last title would be a very NSFW google.)

    47AnnaClaire
    Feb 28, 2014, 12:25 pm

    Found a few more while wandering around the site.

    Quiet in Your Pants
    Before I Go to Sleep in Your Pants
    Death Comes to Pemberley in Your Pants
    Sharp Objects in Your Pants

    48readaholic12
    Edited: Feb 28, 2014, 4:16 pm

    16> I think this one wins!

    49AsYouKnow_Bob
    Feb 28, 2014, 7:20 pm

    Last night I dismissed this as "too easy".

    Upon reflection, I realize that that's a feature, not a bug: this game works for almost any book.

    Classics:

    A Good Man is Hard to Find ... in Your Pants

    Religious books:
    The God Who Is There ... in Your Pants
    Evidence That Demands a Verdict ... in Your Pants

    Nature guides:

    What Wood is That? ... in Your Pants
    What Horse is That? ... in Your Pants

    Recent non-fiction:

    The Big Oyster ... in Your Pants

    50sturlington
    Edited: Feb 28, 2014, 8:58 pm

    Deadwood in your pants.

    What my husband is reading now...

    51ljbryant
    Feb 28, 2014, 9:34 pm

    If you're going with classics, how about:

    Little Women ... in Your Pants
    Tarzan of the Apes ... in Your Pants

    Or, to be completely inappropriate (like the game isn't already!):

    Lolita ... in Your Pants

    52mstrust
    Mar 1, 2014, 7:37 pm

    The Divine Comedy in your pants

    53jnwelch
    Mar 3, 2014, 3:00 pm

    The Orchard Keeper in your pants
    The Goldfinch in your pants

    54bertilak
    Mar 3, 2014, 3:59 pm

    Antony and Cleopatra in your pants.

    Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice in your pants.

    Brave New World in your pants.

    The Agony and the Ecstasy in your pants.

    The Power and the Glory in your pants.

    Stranger in a Strange Land in your pants.

    Man and Superman in your pants.

    The Talented Mr. Ripley in your pants.

    55bernsad
    Mar 3, 2014, 4:03 pm

    I've recently read Present Danger in your pants.

    56MrAndrew
    Mar 4, 2014, 6:08 am

    The Naked Lunch In Your Pants

    Never Cry Wolf In Your Pants

    What Bird Is That In Your Pants?

    Is That A Gun In Your Pants...

    The Wasp Factory In Your Pants

    Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons In Your Pants

    Ender's Game In Your Pants

    The Stone God Awakens In Your Pants

    Watership... Down In Your Pants

    The Day Of The Triffids In Your Pants

    The Two Towers In Your Pants (my word... that's unexpected)

    We Have Always Lived In The Castle In Your Pants

    The Right Attitude To Rain In Your Pants (Change them. Quickly.)

    Hard Time In Your Pants

    Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim In Your Pants (that almost makes sense)

    Over Sea, Under Stone, In Your Pants (a bawdy nursery rhyme from the middle ages)

    The Sea, the Sea In Your Pants (...you really should do something about it)

    Welcome To The Monkey House In Your Pants

    Friends, Lovers, Chocolate In Your Pants (eww)

    The Elegance of the Hedgehog In Your Pants (ouch)

    Flaubert's Parrot In Your Pants

    Just Checking In Your Pants

    Not Just Socks In Your Pants

    I Just Saw Jesus In Your Pants

    whew!

    57thorold
    Mar 4, 2014, 10:58 am

    Killer's wedge in your pants.

    58defaults
    Mar 4, 2014, 2:44 pm

    Introducing Hegel in your pants
    7 Greeks in your pants

    59tardis
    Mar 4, 2014, 4:04 pm

    60MDGentleReader
    Mar 4, 2014, 4:19 pm

    A Monster Calls in your pants.

    61drneutron
    Mar 4, 2014, 8:12 pm

    The Pop-up Kama Sutra in your pants.

    62AnnaClaire
    Mar 4, 2014, 8:55 pm

    Persuasion in Your Pants

    63rgurskey
    Mar 25, 2014, 3:13 pm

    The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody in Your Pants.
    Memoirs of a Mangy Lover in Your Pants.
    Fanny in Your Pants.
    Playboy's Little Annie Fanny in Your Pants.

    Oh, God! in Your Pants.

    64ricproctor
    Mar 25, 2014, 3:18 pm

    Wish I had known of this earlier. Just a couple to add for mg own amusement.

    For poetry lovers, Visions of Heaven and He'll...in your pants.
    For horror fans, The Shining...in your pants.
    And for comic book geeks, the completely (in)appropriate
    Giant Sized Man-Thing...in your pants.

    65amanda4242
    Mar 25, 2014, 4:09 pm

    Hard Times in your pants.

    66labfs39
    Mar 25, 2014, 4:32 pm

    Carl Hiaasen gives us

    Scat in your pants

    Chomp in your pants

    Skin Tight in your pants

    Double Whammy in your pants

    Bad Monkey in your pants

    Sick Puppy in your pants

    and a couple others a little too risque for me to mention. He must get the "most by one author" award!

    67twertz
    Mar 25, 2014, 4:46 pm

    The Picture of Dorian Gray in your pants (Is the picture in your pants or does the picture portray Mr. Gray in your pants?)
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in your pants
    Life, the Universe, and Everything in your pants
    So Long and Thanks for All the Fish in your pants
    Tuesdays with Morrie in your pants
    Little Green Men in your pants
    The Bone Collector in your pants
    The Magicians in your pants
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in your pants

    This could go on for days!

    68twertz
    Mar 25, 2014, 4:47 pm

    Apologies to Donald Miller: Searching for God Knows What in your pants

    Ok, I'm done!

    69KAzevedo
    Edited: Mar 25, 2014, 4:49 pm

    >66 labfs39: Hmmmmm, maybe not.....Dick Francis:

    The Danger in your pants
    10-lb Penalty in your pants
    Bonecrack in your pants
    Shattered in your pants
    Come to Grief in your pants
    Twice Shy in your pants
    Reflex in your pants
    Under Orders in your pants
    Second Wind in your pants
    Comeback in your pants
    Straight in your pants
    Driving Force in your pants
    To the Hilt in your pants

    (there are more, but I saw a story)

    70twertz
    Mar 25, 2014, 4:56 pm

    Dear Lord, I can't stop! Somebody cutoff my internet access!

    At Dawn We Slept in your pants
    Eat, Pray, Love in your pants
    The Pianist in your pants

    71Marissa_Doyle
    Mar 25, 2014, 9:49 pm

    Vastly amused while staring at my bookshelves...this is just way too much fun.

    La Petite in your pants
    Between Bites in your pants
    The Turk and My Mother in your pants
    Brief Gaudy Hour in your pants
    Not What You Expected in your pants
    Yankee Lawyer in your pants
    Other People's Daughters in your pants
    What the Butler Saw in your pants
    Weird hauntings in your pants
    The Tower and the Dream in your pants
    Broken Vessel in your pants

    72AnnaClaire
    Mar 25, 2014, 11:49 pm

    * Mythology in Your Pants
    * The White Goddess in Your Pants
    * The Buccaneers in Your Pants

    73RLiralen
    Mar 26, 2014, 12:06 am

    The Name of the Wind In your Pants

    74alaudacorax
    Mar 26, 2014, 12:24 am

    Just looking through my library ...

    Specimen Fish - How to Catch Them in Your Pants
    The Gardener's Guide to Growing Dahlias in Your Pants
    It's Behind You!: The Story of Panto in Your Pants
    The Sun Also Rises in Your Pants
    Gone With the Wind in Your Pants
    The Lair of the White Worm in Your Pants
    Much Ado About Nothing in Your Pants

    75landarcht
    Mar 26, 2014, 8:39 am

    Entropy in Your Pants
    Emotional Intelligence in Your Pants
    Working Without a Net in Your Pants
    The Psychology of Everyday Things in Your Pants
    Competitive Advantage in Your Pants
    &
    Visual Explanations in Your Pants

    76juniperSun
    Mar 26, 2014, 9:58 am

    I don't have to go far on my shelves to find
    Axe Handles in your pants
    Wind Song in your pants
    Rites of Ancient Ripening in your pants

    77swensonj
    Mar 26, 2014, 12:23 pm

    I am in my office, but even these bookshelves provide:
    "Chaos in Your Pants,"
    or, to give it its full title,
    "Chaos: Making a New Science in Your Pants,"
    as well as
    "Character Theory of Finite Groups in Your Pants,"
    "The Physics of Electricity and Magnetism in Your Pants,"
    "Digital Electronics in Your Pants,"
    and a variety of textbooks on the pattern of
    "Complex Analysis with Applications in Your Pants."

    78swensonj
    Mar 26, 2014, 12:24 pm

    And let us not overlook "Ball Four in Your Pants."

    79Laraka
    Mar 26, 2014, 12:36 pm

    Stiff in your pants

    80kgriffith
    Mar 26, 2014, 12:55 pm

    The Golden Compass in your pants

    81Marynoel
    Mar 26, 2014, 1:00 pm

    Playland in your pants
    The Concrete Blond in your pants
    Babylon Revisited in your pants
    Something Rotten in your pants
    Monkey Wrench in your pants
    The Ripple Effect in your pants
    The Plague of Doves in your pants
    Black Sand in your pants

    That's just from one section of my shelves. But my favorite is from Joyce Cary: Mr. Johnson in your pants

    82gilroy
    Edited: Mar 26, 2014, 3:18 pm

    Divergent in your pants
    Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in your pants
    Mockingjay in your pants

    Some of these could be ... unique. ;)

    83UtopianPessimist
    Edited: Mar 26, 2014, 4:29 pm

    Great Fun, this one.
    The first thing I thought of was: Mrs. Mike…in your pants. Nancy & Benedict Freedman

    So then I thought I’d go through my booklist. Just in “A” I came up with :

    Driving Mr. Albert…in your pants! Michael Paterniti
    It’s Your Ship…in your pants. Michael D. Abrashoff
    A Natural History of the Senses…in your pants. Diane Ackerman
    Pendulum…in your pants. Amir D. Aczel
    Why Things Are & Why Things Aren’t…in your pants. Joel Achenbach
    The Outlander…in your pants. Gil Adamson
    The Professional Stranger…in your pants. Michael H. Agar
    Asylum…in your pants. Andre Alexis
    Getting Things Done… and Ready for Anything…in your pants. David Allen
    Daughter of Fortune…in your pants. Isabel Allende
    Empire of Chaos…in your pants. Samir Armin
    Hearing Voices…in your pants. Brian Andreas
    Yon Ill Wind…in your pants. Piers Anthony
    Call the Dying…in your pants. Andrew Taylor
    Sad, Mad, and Bad…in your pants. Lisa Appignanesi
    Just Killing Time…in your pants. Derek Van Arman
    Sailing Off to Sleep…in your pants. Linda Ashman
    Foundation’s Edge…in your pants. Isaac Asimov
    Dead Heat…in your pants. Tom Athanasiou
    Emotionally Weird…in your pants. Kate Atkinson
    And then my very-best-favourites by Louisa May Alcott:
    Kate’s Choice…in your pants.
    The Inheritance…in your pants.
    A Long Fatal Love Chase…in your pants.
    An Old-Fashioned Girl…in your pants.
    Rose in Bloom…in your pants.
    Eight Cousins…in your pants.

    84jmaloney17
    Mar 26, 2014, 4:36 pm

    Dance With Dragons in your pants

    85Yamanekotei
    Mar 26, 2014, 4:39 pm

    Oh, Play That Thing in Your Pants by Roddy Doyle will be added to my TBR pile.

    86forumpca
    Edited: Mar 27, 2014, 3:37 am

    State of the thing in your pants

    Maybe Carl Rogers' A Way of Being in your pants?

    Faith in the City in your pants (well, you would have, wouldn't you?)

    Bend Sinister in your pants

    87Laraka
    Mar 27, 2014, 1:37 pm

    88AnnaClaire
    Mar 27, 2014, 4:44 pm

    The Comedy of Errors in Your Pants

    89lorannen
    Mar 28, 2014, 8:54 am

    My sci-fi book club just picked its new selection, and I have to add it here:

    Bone Dance in your pants.

    90gilroy
    Mar 28, 2014, 9:07 am

    I'm on a Jim Butcher kick right now.

    Captain's Fury in your pants...

    91AndreasJ
    Mar 28, 2014, 2:06 pm

    An Evil Guest in Your Pants
    The Cambrian Explosion in Your Pants (Welsh erotica?)
    The House of the Worm in Your Pants

    92bertilak
    Mar 28, 2014, 3:26 pm

    > 91, which immediately suggests The Lair of the White Worm in your pants.

    93AndreasJ
    Mar 29, 2014, 3:47 am

    The Anatomy of Victory in Your Pants

    94kkotten
    Edited: Apr 4, 2014, 10:12 pm

    The Sound and the Fury In Your Pants.

    ETA: The Jungle In Your Pants.

    95AnnaClaire
    Edited: Apr 4, 2014, 11:55 pm

    In the Wake of the Plague in Your Pants
    Mediaeval People in Your Pants
    The Lady and the Unicorn in Your Pants (What is a unicorn doing in someone's pants!?)

    Oh, and...
    The Once and Future King in Your Pants

    96Yamanekotei
    Apr 4, 2014, 11:58 pm

    Eat This, Not That in Your Pants.

    97AnnaClaire
    Apr 5, 2014, 12:19 am

    >96 Yamanekotei: Speaking of which...

    Joy of Cooking in Your Pants
    How to Cook Everything in Your Pants

    98AndreasJ
    Apr 5, 2014, 2:27 am

    To continue the wormy theme:

    Mysteries of the Worm in Your Pants.

    99kkotten
    Apr 7, 2014, 10:57 am

    A Storm of Swords in Your Pants.

    100Yamanekotei
    Edited: Apr 7, 2014, 11:15 am

    Nature Loves to Hide in Your Pants
    The nature of violent storms in Your Pants
    Philosophy of Nature in Your Pants
    Physics : The Nature of Things in Your Pants

    ETA touchstones

    101lquilter
    Apr 7, 2014, 3:03 pm

    From my copyright & info policy bookshelf:

    Common as Air in Your Pants.

    Fast Forward in Your Pants

    The Wisdom of Crowds in Your Pants

    The Author's Due in Your Pants

    The Soul of Creativity in Your Pants

    The Master Switch in Your Pants

    The Cathedral and the Bazaar in Your Pants

    102AnnaClaire
    Jun 29, 2014, 11:25 pm

    Reviving the thread for little good reason at all:

    * Unearthing Gotham in Your Pants
    * 722 Miles in Your Pants (That's quite a hike!)
    * Below Stairs in Your Pants

    103gilroy
    Jun 30, 2014, 7:07 am

    The Three Musketeers in your pants...

    104jldarden
    Jun 30, 2014, 7:22 pm

    An Echo in the Bone in your pants.

    105AnnaClaire
    Jun 30, 2014, 11:11 pm

    106malibby
    Jul 1, 2014, 5:25 pm