Tuesday, October 15, 2019

TTT: Extraordinary Book Titles

It's been quite some time since I did a Top Ten Tuesday, but this one was so fun that I couldn't miss it. There are a bunch of ways I could have gone with this, but I mostly decided on some of the most ridiculous-sounding book titles I know. Yes, I have completely gotten used to some of them as time as gone on, but looking back at them, they are utterly silly. Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for a great topic once again!



1) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

2) The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks

3) Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love - Maryrose Wood

4) Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants - Dav Pilkey

5) Away Laughing on a Fast Camel - Louise Rennison (Cue: any books in her Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series)


6) I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats - Francesco Marciuliano

7) The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler

8) How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell

9) The Pigman's Legacy - Paul Zindel

10) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Judi and Ron Barrett

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What are some of your favourites? Do you gravitate towards books and movies with funny titles, or do you shy away from them?
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10 comments:

  1. Roberta R.October 15, 2019 at 3:23 AM

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things are the only titles I'm familiar with, and I actually think the second is a clever one. Some are intriguing, but How to Eat Fried Worms and Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants are a no-no LOL. Have you read any of those?

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    1. Prototype_SR04October 15, 2019 at 1:11 PM

      The only one I've actually read is the Captain Underpants one, haha. Let's just call it "research" for my job. I have watched the movies for Guernsey and the first Confessions of Georgia Nicolson book, and have read another series by Maryrose Wood which I almost used for this (ex. What I Wore to Save the World).

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  2. LydiaOctober 15, 2019 at 1:25 PM

    I loved How to Eat Fried Worms when I was a kid!

    My TTT.

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    1. Prototype_SR04October 15, 2019 at 10:38 PM

      The title always grossed me out too much to try reading it! Haha

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  3. P M PrescottOctober 15, 2019 at 1:45 PM

    Interesting list.

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  4. AbookandaCupOctober 15, 2019 at 8:28 PM

    So glad you enjoyed the topic I suggested! These titles are hilarious!

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  5. GregOctober 16, 2019 at 12:15 AM

    I Could Pee On This sounds SOO like something a cat would think/ say! :) And The Guernsey Literary- I remember the first time I saw that one in a bookstore, and I had to pick it up just to see what it was about!!

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    1. Prototype_SR04October 17, 2019 at 10:45 AM

      I think the sequel should be I Can Knock This Over, haha.

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