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I'll start:

>A Storm of Swords
>The Sound and The Fury
>For Whom the Bell Tolls

>> No.20332902

Faulkner just plagiarized the most famous soliloquy of all time, that's not hard.

>> No.20332905

hard mode: titles aren't from KJV or Shakespeare

>> No.20332924

Lolita. Lo. Lee. Tah.

>> No.20332933
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>The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard

>> No.20332942

>TEN LITTLE NIGGERS

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>> No.20332948
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

>> No.20332952

nigger kino sneed

>> No.20332956

>>20332946
I said kino not grotesque/edgy

>> No.20332969

>>20332956
simp

>> No.20332983
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>Bartleby the Scrivener

>> No.20333001
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>The Gay Science

>> No.20333258

Blood Meridian
The Odyssey
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Slaughterhouse-Five

>> No.20333274

the day my bum went psycho

>> No.20333318

The Kings of Creation

>> No.20333339
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>>20332896
>Water Margin

>> No.20333343

I always really liked the title Atlas Shrugged.

>> No.20333349
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>>20332896
Beyond Google and Evil

>> No.20333360

>>20333343
I like the title, but strongly disliked the book

>> No.20333374
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>>20333258
"Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West" goes pretty hard

Also a big fan of:
Gravity's Rainbow
War & War
Notes From Underground

>> No.20333426

Gone with the Wind. Also seconding Atlas Shrugged.

>> No.20333470
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>>20332896
The Shadow of the Torturer

>> No.20333502

>>20332896
Storm of steel

>> No.20333656
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>>20332896
>The Catcher in the Rye

>> No.20333661

>The Ethics of Investment Banking: A novel

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Mine were of trouble

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>> No.20333888

>Best title stolen from the Bible
Stranger In A Strange Land

>Best title stolen from John Donne
For Whom The Bell Tolls

>Best THE COOL MADE-UP WORD title
The Silmarillion

>Best THE ADJECTIVE NOUN title
The Maltese Falcon

>Best THE SOMETHING OF THE SOMETHING title
The Silence Of The Lambs

>Best THE SOMETHING OF THE SOMETHING title (extended version)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

>Best Hemingway title that isn't stolen from John Donne
Hills Like White Elephants

>Best Faulkner title
As I Lay Dying

>Best Shakespeare title
A Midsummer Night's Dream

>Best Agatha Christie title
Ten Tiny Tots

>Best poetry collection title
Leaves Of Grass

>Best wacky-but-intriguing title
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike

>Best sinister title
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

>Best title with a number
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

>Best absurdly long title which everyone just truncates to the first word
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson

>Best title with the words 'Moby' and 'Dick' in it
Moby Dick

>> No.20333894

>>20332896
heart of darkness

>> No.20333900

Darkness at Noon

>> No.20333902

>>20333888
Based. Double Trips of Wisdom.

>> No.20333906

>>20333888
>A Midsummer Night's Dream
this one is really fucking nice
why does it sound so nice

>> No.20333939

>>20333906
Because "Midsummer Night's" has lots of quick deft consonants which then contrast with DREAM which is rich and smooth like Haagen-Daaz on a young starlet's tummy.

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>>20333343
It always struck me as extreme bathos, a 'meh' that reverberated throughout the cosmos. Also it makes me think of a Prachett version of the joke where the guy holding two watermelons under each arm gets asked the time, he puts down each watermelon and shrugs. Except instead of a watermelon under the arm, it's the Earth on his shoulders.

>> No.20334241

>>20332896
>The Denial of Death
>Voice of the Fire
>Doctor Faustus
>Frankenstein
>The Idiot

>> No.20334617

Blood Meridian
The Man without Qualities
Confederacy of Dunces
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paradise Lost

>> No.20334639
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>On the Jews and their Lies

>> No.20334647

>>20333502
This

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>>20332896
Guns Germs and Steel

>> No.20334753

>>20334746
The book itself is Jew propaganda though.

>> No.20335177

Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
(Doesn't actually tell you how the Federal Reserve runs at all but gives you novella chapters about Volcker and Reagan with insightful setting descriptions)

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>The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
>The Naked and the Dead
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
>A Sense of Where You Are
>The Call of the Wild
>The Postman Always Rings Twice
>The Fifth Head of Cerberus
>The Things They Carried
>Black Wings Has My Angel
>How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
>Death Comes for the Arch Bishop
>The Bridge of San Luis Ray
>A Clockwork Orange
>The Big Sleep
>A True History

Just some selections of books I have read in the past few years whose titles grabbed me

>> No.20335368

>>20332933
lol

>> No.20335379

>>20332896
Of Human Bondage
All The Sad Young Men
The Late Mattia Pascal

>> No.20335388

Between Two Fires

>> No.20335396

>>20332924
It‘s lo lee ta but whatever

As for titles, i liked
>women of a certain rage

>> No.20335415

>>20333906
Because it instantly makes me think of young beautiful people playing naked catch the warm woods around a huge bonfire at night but it isn‘t actually fully dark because midsommar and in the end they go off in pairs of two or three to fuck on white linens that have been spread around everywhere on the moss.

>> No.20335433

>>20332896
A scanner Darkly
Flow my teats the policeman said
Storm of Steel
Notes from the underground
A wild sheep chase
If on a winter's night a traveler

>> No.20336848

>>20335433
None of this is good.

>> No.20336865

>>20335433
>Flow my teats the policeman said
Wut

>> No.20336875

>>20336865
gib milkies

>> No.20336897
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>>20332896
The moon and sixpence

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>The Divine Comedy

>> No.20337330

>>20337328
It's not funny.

>> No.20337483

>>20333343
Her husband came up with actually

>> No.20337504

>>20332896
The Stranger
Confessions of a Mask
The Idiot
Beyond Good and Evil
Crusade in Spain

>> No.20337547

>>20333894
>>20333900
Darkness Visible

>> No.20337636

>>20333906
>>20333939
>>20335415
/lit/ (seldom) can be very nice and cozy

>> No.20337682

>>20332896
>A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Have never read it but it’s a great fantasy title
>The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Reddit book but I like the title
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Best long title imo
>An American Tragedy
I like how bold yet plain this title is

>> No.20337759

>>20332896
For whom the bell Tolls is just a poem by John Donne

>> No.20337804

>>20337682
would agree, and from myself add
The Wind in the Willows

>> No.20337906

Historia universal de la infamia

>> No.20337920

>>20332896
>A Storm of Swords
Too videogamey. I prefer A Feast for Crows.

>> No.20337925

>>20333888
>Best THE ADJECTIVE NOUN title
>The Maltese Falcon
There are a million better examples.

>> No.20337931

>>20333888
>Best title with a number
>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
2666 is better (but in Spanish)

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>>20332896
>Atlas Shrugged
will never read it though

>> No.20338157

>>20338104
why not?
>inb4 le jewish woman incel whining

>> No.20338184

>>20338157
I’m not interested in Objectivism, I just like the title. I also heard it was a slog from a left liberal Argentinian, but I take that with salt.

>> No.20338283

The Learned Disguise

>> No.20338573

>>20332924
Why does Lolita make most (older) women seeth? It seems only men and girls like the book for some reason.

>> No.20338584

>>20338573
I just checked some good reads review and the first 1 star I saw (200+ likes) is from someone who has The Guncle rated 5 stars. Why are progs so shameless?

>> No.20339150

>Best alliterative title
The Wind In The Willows

>Best pun title
The Importance Of Being Earnest

>Best translated title
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

>Best title with an exclamation point
Look, Stranger!

>Best misleading title which completely ignores the main character
The Three Musketeers

>Best Ian Fleming title
You Only Live Twice

>Best Stephen King title
The Shining

>Best J. K. Rowling title
The Brutal And Horrifying Death Of Harry Potter

>Best short story collection title
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

>Best title for a work of philosophy
Also Sprach Zarathustra

>Best CHARACTER NAME title
Lolita

>Best THE ADJECTIVAL PHRASE NOUN title
The Once And Future King

>Best THE DAY OF THE SOMETHING title
The Day Of The Jackal

>Best succinct spoiler title
Jurassic Park

>Best succinct spoiler title (non-fiction)
The Selfish Gene

>Best unintentionally-hilarious title in this thread resulting from a single-letter typo
Flow My Teats, The Policeman Said

>> No.20339185

>>20339150
>The Brutal And Horrifying Death Of Harry Potter
?

>> No.20339858

>>20332896
>Things Fall Apart
>The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
>Absalom, Absalom!
>All the King’s Men

>> No.20339869

>>20332896
The title of the one I am writing currently

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>>20332896
Sins of a Solar Empire

>> No.20340624

>>20332896
>The Phenomenology of Sucking Dick
It's the title to my debut novel. I had interest from a publisher but they were adamant about changing the title so I told them to suck my dick.

>> No.20340684

Dying Earth

>> No.20340695

GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE

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Eggplant.

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>>20332896
>Journey to the End of the Night
For some reason the title is just frighteningly powerful to me. Like some final endgame boss you have to be fully equipped to stand evenly with.

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>>20339150
>>Best title with an exclamation point

>> No.20341848

>"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

>> No.20341911

>My Friend Hitler

>> No.20341970

>>20332896
>Infinite Jest
gotta read some Shakespeare, this was dope and the Northman was dope, gotta read some Hamlet and whatever the IJ quote is from.

>> No.20342651

>>20340598
This is the only kino ITT