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Tag Archives: book titles
25 best book titles of 2012
A great title doesn’t necessarily ensure a great book, but there’s something to be said for a solid hook. The editors of BookPage have selected the 25 best book titles of 2012 (scroll down for the full alphabetical list): … Continue reading
Posted in best of 2012, provocative title
Tagged A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois, Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield, And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman, Bernadette by Maria Semple, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, book titles, Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman, Don't Touch It by David Wong, Dude, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain by Lucia Perillo, HHhH by Laurent Binet, Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, Lots of Candles, New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín, No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen, Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea by Morgan Callan Rogers, Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser, Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, The Liar the Bitch and the Wardrobe by Allie Kingsley, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu, There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander, Where'd You Go, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson, Would You Eat Your Cat? by Jeremy Stangroom
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Provocative title of the week: ‘Say Nice Things About Detroit’
People are always talking about judging a book by its cover, but for those of us who are obsessed with words, I’d say a title is equally if not more important. This week brought an early contender for our “Best … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 releases, book titles, Say Nice Things About Detroit, Scott Lasser
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25 best book titles of 2011
Everyone has their own opinion on what makes a book cover great, and the same goes for titles. A little clever wordplay, a subtle nod or allusion, something weird—words that suggest that what lies inside is rich and memorable. We’ve … Continue reading
Posted in best of 2011
Tagged Adam Mansbach, Alexandra Fuller, Ali Smith, Andrew Ferguson, Ben Mezrich, Blood Bones & Butter, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, book titles, Brian McGackin, Broetry, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Catherynne M. Valente, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Crazy U, David Rowell, Elissa Schappell, Fabio Geda, Gabrielle Hamilton, Go the F**k to Sleep, Inside Out & Back Again, John Donohue, Joshua Foer, Julie Sternberg, Kate Atkinson, killer stuff and tons of money, Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, Louise Rennison, Man with a Pan, Moonwalking with Einstein, Paradise Lust, Patrick deWitt, Peggy Orenstein, Rahul Bhattacharya, Roger Rosenblatt, Sex on the Moon, Siobhan Fallon, Started Early Took My Dog, Swamplandia!, Thanhha Lai, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, The Sisters Brothers, The Sly Company of People Who Care, The Train of Small Mercies, There But For The, Unless it Moves the Human Heart, Withering Tights, You Know When the Men Are Gone
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