I love these two for example 😊 "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" and "The perks of being a wallflower" I think long titles are the coolest
I love the title "Tell the wolves I'm home" by Carol Rifka Brunt. I read it as a teenager and it's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. I was bawling my eyes out. Really recommend it! Also "The hour of the star" by Clarice Lispector is a gorgeous title.
I was 50 something when I first read Tell The Wolves I’m Home and I also loved it. If you have not yet read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, you may like that book as well.
I do this all the time with my reading, some of mine include: Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
FYI: The Overstory. I just shipped a duplicate copy to my daughter this week. It is a good read, but not for everyone, nor would I recommend to just anyone. And, you have to be in a certain mood to read it, and it helps to be enviro-friendly. Five I have read: 1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2. The Left Hand of Darkness 3. Snow Falling on Cedars 4. Where the Red Fern Grows (chapter book entry) 5. The Sound and the Fury - Another title reference from Shakespeare. Honorable Mentions: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Grapes of Wrath - Biblical title, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, All Quiet on the Western Front, Half of a Yellow Sun, Fahrenheit 451, The Bell Jar, A Streetcar Named Desire (great title; book, not so much), The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Turtles All the Way Down, A Raisin in the Sun, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel borrowing the title from Shakespeare's The Tempest, Five I have yet to read: 1. Three Men in a Boat-To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome 2. An Invitation To a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov 3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein 4. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. 5. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Honorable mention: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, Saving Fish from Drowning by Any Tan
A book I loved the title of and the cover was The Little Venice Bookshop by Rebecca Raisin. I loved the title and the book cover, I borrowed it from the library with out even reading the blurb on the back. It got me with Venice and Bookshop. It turned out to be wonderful, I really loved it. It was a great read, and it made me cry.
I love the title Art Objects (by Jeanette Winterson). The word 'objects' in this case is both a noun and a verb. Art OBjects and art obJECTS. It is actually one of my favourite books of all time. My favourite cover of this particular book is the orange and black one, the cover being a detail from the painting "Ma io non voglio piegarmi a terra" by Massimo Rao. So hard to find that actual painting online even in google images for some reason. The book is not to be confused by Art & Lies (also by Jeanette Winterson), which also has an orange-hued cover featuring a Massimo Rao painting.
When I was younger I first picked up pride and prejudice for its title I had no clue what it was but I saw it in a charity shop and like the sound of the title and that's what got me into classics . I also love the title 'to kill a mockingbird' .
I finished the audiobook of The Overstory YESTERDAY! I actually picked up a copy bc it sounded interesting to me when you hauled it ages ago XD 4.25 stars, highly recommend! The audiobook is also quite nice so that might be the best way to tackle this 500 page mammoth
I like very much "The Priory of the Orange Tree" . I love the sound of Orange Tree and the words in this title sound so well together and run so smoothly over ones lips. 💗
As a brazilian I can't help but recommend The Posthumous Memories Of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis. This book is simply so funny and at the same time very intriguing and I love it! ❤
I LOVE TUCK EVERLASTING its one of my moms favorites and i have her old copy and it just holds such a special place in my heart 🫠 so excited to hear u mention it
What a great selection! I also love Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Summer Light and Then Comes the Night ; William Morris’ News from Nowhere ; Ursula K. Le Guinn’s The Word for World is Forest ; Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth …
LOVE this.... title-shopping is honestly bigger than covershopping lol. a book title that is very enthralling to me is "the looking glass sisters" by gohril gabrielsen.... so excited to get to it!!
One of my favourite authors is Tom Robbins whose novels all have wonderfully quirky titles; "Still Life With Woodpecker", "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues", "Skinny Legs And All", "Wild Ducks Flying Backwards", "Jitterbug Perfume"...and my own particular favourite "Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas"
One of my favourite titles is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society!!! If you haven't read it you should Carolyn, I feel you're gonna love it!!!
For me: "A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea" by Dina Nayeri is my favorite title and possibly my favorite book. I also love "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin, a middle grade book, because of how mythical and fantastical it sounds, just like how the story itself is. That book is a fav because of nostalgia.
Cool video idea☺️ one of the titles that really took me aback was a book from the Norwegian author Herbjørg Wassmo which translated is called "A glass of milk, please". The title in itself is so innocent and I did not know what the story was about, so I was really surprised when i understood that it was about human trafficking. An amazing and totally brutal book. Tried to find it in english so I could recommend it to you and Emma, but alas. Try looking up the authors name - worth reading, but look up trigger warnings.
"Born a Crime" and "The Audacity of Hope" are among my favorite titles. Also on the list: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "How to be Both" and "La Vie mode d'emploi" ("Life a User's manual").
Some titles I love from books I read - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - A Breath of Snow & Ashes by Diana Gabaldon - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith
In 2013 Robert Macfarlane wrote a book (with two other authors) called ‘Holloway’. A Holloway is usually an ancient road used as for horses and carts or drover’s roads. They mainly exist in the southern part of England, particularly in Dorset and the Isle of Wight (yes that is spelt correctly). They are so old that ground they traverse has almost become a series of tunnels, invisible from the surrounding area. They are truly magical places, often they have tree canopies lit by golden sunlight, to walk there is to walk under a stained-glass cathedral ceiling of a myriad greens. They have a quality that enables them to seep inside your very being and to transport you to a different age. I hope you look into them one day and maybe read his book. regular viewer Claire B
I love this video idea. I decided to look at past reads as well as my longterm TBR and just list all that had truly compelling titles (if they have an asterisk, I'm recommending them for you to read, in case you haven't.): Of Mice and Men, Braiding Sweetgrass, Les Miserables, Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk*, Little Dorrit, A Stitch in Time, Tender is the Night, Turn of the Screw, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict*, The Sun Also Rises, Under the Tuscan Sun, Positively 4th Street*, Charlotte’s Web, Fear and Trembling*, Twice Told Tales, In Cold Blood, Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris to the Moon, All the President’s Men, Great Expectations, The Catcher in the Rye, Oliver Twist, Dispatches from The Edge*, No Name, Diet for a Small Planet*, Eat, Pray, Love, Just Kids, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir, The Paper Palace, American Melancholy: Poems, While Justice Sleeps, and Also a Poet: Frank Ohara, My Father and Me. Note, if you look up the titles here you aren't already familiar with, you may find some reads that you would really enjoy. I am struggling to pick a title for my own novel and I see that the majority of titles I find compelling are complete noun-verb phrases. Interesting. FYI, I'm going to work the noun "overstory" into my novel. Great word. Thanks. :)
i got really happy when you mentioned "the book of disquiet", i'm currently reading it and love it so much !! i feel very understood by pessoa's writing 🤧🫂 also some books i want to read because of their titles are "the sun also rises", "the turn of the screw", "the satanic verses", "the teahouse fire", "last night at the telegraph club" etc
I love booktitles that are a reference to or a quote from another famous work just like TFIOS. Mindy McGinnis has done this as well with some of her works! I also love in cozy mysteries when they have punny titles or that are a play on other classic mysteries: Arsenic and Adobo, Dial A for Aunties, etc.
I bought The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng purely based on the cover and title. I'd never heard of it and didn't have any idea what it was about but it is one of the most beautiful books that I have ever read.
Here in Belgium, Dimitri Verhulst's "De helaasheid der dingen" was voted the most beautiful book title in Dutch. Unfortunately, the English translation, "The Unfortunates", doesn't quite convey the beauty of the original title. I think the translators did a better job with Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's "The Discomfort of Evening" (Dutch: "De avond is ongemak"; or literally "The Evening is Discomfort", but that doesn't sound good in English)
Wow, I can relate! I adore books with beautiful titles. There are so many intriguing examples in the world's literature, but I'd like to share some russian classics here. These titles always give me goosebumps :3 "War and Peace" by L. Tolstoy, "Hero of Our Time" by M. Lermontov, "Queen of Spades" by A. Pushkin, "An Evening with Claire" by G. Gazdanov, "Shadows Disappear at Noon" by A. Ivanov, "Clara Militch (After Death)" by I. Turgenev, "Solomon's Star", "The Pit" by A. Kuprin, "Last Pages of a Woman's Diary" by V. Bryusov, "Black Monk", "Seagull" by A. Chekhov, "Crime and Punishment", "Demons" by F. Dostoevsky, "Dead Souls" by N. Gogol, "Hard to Be a God", "Monday Begins on Saturday", "The Final Circle of Paradise" by brothers Strugatsky, "The Sun of the Dead" by I. Shmelyov, "Dark Avenues", "Cursed Days" by I. Bunin, "Satan's Diary", "The Red Laugh", "Seven Who Were Hanged" by L. Andreyev.
Oh my… There are so many good book titles! I'll be thinking about this the whole day! I guess some of my favourites are: A Hundred Years of Solitude Near the Wild Heart; Clarice Lispector Invisible cities; Ítalo Calvino Sleepwalking Land; Mia Couto All Men Are Mortal; Simone de Beauvoir The book of embraces; Eduardo Galeano (you'll LOVE this one, Carolyn!!!) Some of my favourite titles are not translated to english, but they're: Distraídos Venceremos (distracted we’ll win); Paulo Leminski O ex-estranho (ex-stranger); Paulo Leminski Sentimento do mundo (The feeling of the world); Carlos Drummond de Andrade Also, I think it's quite funny that Wislawa Szymborska's last book is titled Enough, lol. The Penelopiad is one in my TBR since ever because of the title
I love Sleepwalking Land too! So many amazing Portuguese/Brazilian titles here! I do not think that Mia Couto’s book maintains the same poetics in the English translation of the title as in the Portuguese however.
@@morbidswither3051 Oh, that's so sad! I've read Mia Couto in Portuguese (I'm Brazilian, hi) and it was one of my favourite readings. The end of Sleepwalking Land has this vertigo feeling that A Hundred Years of Solitude also has that it's just absurd. But I feel this is a problem with a lot of Portuguese and Spanish written literature... When translated to English, part of the poetics is lost. Latin languages work in a very specific way, specially in colonized countries
Two books I know little to nothing about and yet am extremely intrigued by the titles: Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell and Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. Apparently the latter wasn't received well, but I always love reading Lewis and he was really proud of it so who knows, maybe it's great. Also this was a cool video idea 😊
Keep the Aspidistra Flying isn't bad. Orwell himself thought of it as one of his weaker books (called it a writing exercise he never should have published, but he needed the money), but I liked it. The plot and style are definitely not his best, but it's still worth a read.
@@94blackbelt Yes I've heard he wasn't particularly fond of it but ya know - he didn't write all that much fiction and I've read most of the rest of it so I'm still very interested
Hi! I just discovered your channel from “The Cottage Fairy”. Omg!!! I love books so much! I have favorite words as well but not a favorite letter. How cool is that?! I can’t think of a really cool title at the moment but I’m for sure going to check out some/all of the suggestions here. 😂
The title is even more complicated than that because 'nothing' in Shakespeare's time also meant espionage, so it becomes "Spying Leads to Problems." Also in Shakespeare's time the word 'nothing' sometimes referred to female genitalia which to them compared to men was literally nothing. In that meaning the title becomes "Sex (or Jealousy) Makes People Crazy." I am indebted to Dr. Pincus of CUNY for this fact.
I was intrigued by the title, Five Quarters of the Orange. I wondered if it meant too much, not enough, or a metaphor I never heard of. Rented it from the library and the next day at work was asked to lead a multi-year, bear of a project. Didn’t even get to open the book. Hadn’t thought about it until watching this video. For now have a couple John Irving books waiting for me, but someday……. :)
My favourite book title is Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. It is the fifth novel of the marvellous 12 volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Proust is another great title
i love Ocean Vuong’s book titles. night sky with exit wounds and on earth we’re briefly gorgeous i love so many book titles. some on my tbr bc of the title- -i fear my pain interests you -moon of the crusted snow -exquisite corpse -infinity in the palm of her hand
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I’ve read this one and loved it as well as the movie. Another title I haven’t read but am intrigued by is Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. I have it and waiting for the summer to read.
Yes absolutely! Do aspects of the books please. Why are some books bigger than others? What are some aesthetic techniques to make books stand out from others? What obstacles do you face when you want to publish a book? You are creative, how inventive can you be with books? For example. All spines are the same. Would it be possible to design a spine that looks like as if someone took a bite out of it?
I really like Neil Gaiman's titles... Graveyard Book, Neverwhere, Ocean at the end of the lane .... Some other favourite titles of mine: -One hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez -My name is red by orhan pamuk -Tell the wolves I'm home by carol rifka brunt -will you please be quiet please by raymond Carver -to the lighthouse by Virginia woolf -oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette winterson
Some of my favorite titles at the moment: one flew over the cuckoos nest, a canticle for liebowitz, the razor’s edge, east of Eden, a river runs through it, Awakenings
I really enjoy your videos although I mostly read non-fiction. One of my favorite titles is "A Bright Shining Lie" by Neil Sheehan. It is a biography about a soldier of the Vietnam War, John Paul Vann, whose life kind of represented the whole experience of those tragic years. As does the title itself, a quote said by Vann during the early years of the war. Thanks.
Just found your channel. My first got published in 2003 by st. Anthony Messenger press. They loved my title. It is THE WONDROUS ADVENTURES OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI. NOW WRITING Inspirational fiction. But want to hand write, illustrate and bind them. So exciting.
Read: Of mice and men, A 100 years of solitude, Wuthering heights, Interpreter of maladies Want to read: basically all Kazuo Ishiguro sound great, never let me go, klara and the sun... + Heart of a dog, the girl who drank the moon, great expectations......
You might it interesting that I have a friend named Everlasting. I do think it was such a beautiful name too. Her nickname is Ever, an equally unique name
Books that i put immediately on my tbr because of their titles: You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, A Little Hatred, The Enchanted April, Beloved (by Toni Morrison), Their Eyes Were Watching God, I Capture the Castle and also The Book of Disquiet was on the list as well! Books I've read and love their titles: Cudzoziemka (eng. A Foreigner, by Maria Kuncewiczowa, it's an amazing Polish classic, apparently it's translated into English but I have not found it yet TT), Przedwiośnie (literal translation is early/pre-spring) and Rozdzióbią nas kruki, wrony (Ravens and crows will tear us apart), both by Stefan Żeromski (I guess Polish classics have a lot of my favorite titles) and also The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Two books that caught my eye at the little free library: Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad stories by Sholem Aleichem and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. I have no idea what they are about, just that they are classics and I liked their titles.
A book I was attracted to because of the title was "The Unbearable Lightness of Scones" by Alexander McCall Smith. I also think one of his other books has a funny title, "Portuguese Irregular Verbs." So quirky.
I loveee this video so much! So great to hear you nerd out about words and language and wordplay, I really appreciate some nice and clever sounding words and titles myself :)
I found The Overstory good, but not great -- definitely not Pulitzer-worthy. Advice: take copious notes! The Bloody Chamber is fab, and yes, it's a retelling of Bluebeard. My favorite (so far, unread) books with excellent titles are: Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart by Oats, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino. Who could pass up those titles??? 💚
So happy you found Fernando Pessoa. Give a chance to Portuguese literature. You won't regret it. ;) As good titles go, we have "The Piano Cemetery" (from José Luís Peixoto)
Hi Carolyn, My favourite Shakespeare play is a Midsummer night’s Dream. There is a truly magical otherworldly film of the play from 1935 that’s available on CZcams. I really recommend to anyone reading this to watch that beautiful film 🎦 its a wonderful, delightful experience. I’d love to hear back from anyone who watches it. 😊 Claire B
Hmmm, let me see... *stretching up her fingers* “As I Lay Sying”, “The Pleasure of Hating” (👽), “The Sun of the Dead” by Ivan Shmelyov, “Hello Sorrow” by Françoise Sagan, “The Sorrows of young Werther”, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” by Murakami, “The Chips are down” by Sartre, “About The Insignificance and Sorrows of Life” and “The Art of Being Right” by Schopenhauer. Also, “Secret Views of Mount Fuji”, “Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun)”, and “Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady”, all by Viktor Pelevin, who I highly recommend and enormously praise. Wow, that was a lot 😂 But, to be honest, I very often pick up my books by their titles 😅 And I was never disappointed!
Tuck Everlasting was a childhood favorite of mine too. Book of Disquiet is really interesting, it's one I would read in spurts. Mishima is such a beautiful writer. Richard Powers' last one, Bewilderment, really disappointed me.
I listened to the audiobook of John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed on your recommendation. I can see why you love it so much. I also found it very touching. As for book titles, I found Philip K. Dick's book titles are unusually creative. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale was made into the movie Total Recall, but I think the book had a far better title.
Fave titles A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Paradise Lost, The Starless Sea, The Book of Longing, 100 Years of Solitude, I Capture The Castle, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Books I want to read bc of the title A Coney Island of the Mind, The Transit of Venus, The Gods are Athirst, The Lady of the Camellias, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
I like the hidden pun in the title “1Q84”. In Japanese, both “1984” and “1Q84” would be pronounced “ichi kyu hachi yon”. Some humor books have my favorite titles: _We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us_ by Walt Kelly and _Earth vs Everybody_ by John Swartzwelder.
I want to read "The Futurological Congress" by Stanisław Lem and "Life: A User's Manual" Georges Perec. These two have something mysterious about them 👽
I read How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You I’m Sorry by Fredrik Backman because of the titles. I want to read The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews (Edwards) because it’s a fantastic title!
oooh, George Steiner [Book of Disquiet blurb] he wrote one of my favorite books; Fields of Force, but it's not for everyone because it has a lot to do with chess.
Oh: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and The Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee, who also had The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed. (good titles, all evocative and interesting.) Then there is The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower. It's not science fiction.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is a title that I’m itching to read because it just sounds so intriguing.
This book's SO funny!!!! One of my favourites! You should definitely read it!
So great you like Machado de Assis! I'm from Brazil and he's one of my favorite authors! ❤
"Drive your plow over the bones of the dead" by Olga Tokarczuk is definitely the most extravagant title I've ever read. This book is still on my tbr
I love these two for example 😊
"The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" and "The perks of being a wallflower"
I think long titles are the coolest
I love the title "Tell the wolves I'm home" by Carol Rifka Brunt. I read it as a teenager and it's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. I was bawling my eyes out. Really recommend it! Also "The hour of the star" by Clarice Lispector is a gorgeous title.
I was 50 something when I first read Tell The Wolves I’m Home and I also loved it. If you have not yet read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, you may like that book as well.
@@evangelinepoe8952 thank you so much for the recommendation! I will check it out!
I do this all the time with my reading, some of mine include:
Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Stand Back”, said the Elephant, “I’m Going to Sneeze!” by Patricia Thomas. My favorite children’s book. Thank you for sharing your favorites 😊
FYI: The Overstory. I just shipped a duplicate copy to my daughter this week. It is a good read, but not for everyone, nor would I recommend to just anyone. And, you have to be in a certain mood to read it, and it helps to be enviro-friendly.
Five I have read:
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
3. Snow Falling on Cedars
4. Where the Red Fern Grows (chapter book entry)
5. The Sound and the Fury - Another title reference from Shakespeare.
Honorable Mentions: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Grapes of Wrath - Biblical title, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, All Quiet on the Western Front, Half of a Yellow Sun, Fahrenheit 451, The Bell Jar, A Streetcar Named Desire (great title; book, not so much), The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Turtles All the Way Down, A Raisin in the Sun, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel borrowing the title from Shakespeare's The Tempest,
Five I have yet to read:
1. Three Men in a Boat-To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome
2. An Invitation To a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
4. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
5. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Honorable mention: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, Saving Fish from Drowning by Any Tan
one of my fav titles : the perks of being a wallflower
A book I loved the title of and the cover was The Little Venice Bookshop by Rebecca Raisin. I loved the title and the book cover, I borrowed it from the library with out even reading the blurb on the back. It got me with Venice and Bookshop. It turned out to be wonderful, I really loved it. It was a great read, and it made me cry.
Such a fun video, I am gravitated by this book called They Caged the Animals at Night. Such a powerful book!
I love the title Art Objects (by Jeanette Winterson). The word 'objects' in this case is both a noun and a verb. Art OBjects and art obJECTS. It is actually one of my favourite books of all time. My favourite cover of this particular book is the orange and black one, the cover being a detail from the painting "Ma io non voglio piegarmi a terra" by Massimo Rao. So hard to find that actual painting online even in google images for some reason. The book is not to be confused by Art & Lies (also by Jeanette Winterson), which also has an orange-hued cover featuring a Massimo Rao painting.
When I was younger I first picked up pride and prejudice for its title I had no clue what it was but I saw it in a charity shop and like the sound of the title and that's what got me into classics . I also love the title 'to kill a mockingbird' .
I finished the audiobook of The Overstory YESTERDAY! I actually picked up a copy bc it sounded interesting to me when you hauled it ages ago XD 4.25 stars, highly recommend! The audiobook is also quite nice so that might be the best way to tackle this 500 page mammoth
Yes. I was going to suggest the same.
I like very much "The Priory of the Orange Tree" . I love the sound of Orange Tree and the words in this title sound so well together and run so smoothly over ones lips. 💗
As a brazilian I can't help but recommend The Posthumous Memories Of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis. This book is simply so funny and at the same time very intriguing and I love it! ❤
I LOVE TUCK EVERLASTING its one of my moms favorites and i have her old copy and it just holds such a special place in my heart 🫠 so excited to hear u mention it
i've been meaning to pick up "the overstory" and your little tale regarding the title just sparked that up a little more
What a great selection! I also love Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Summer Light and Then Comes the Night ; William Morris’ News from Nowhere ; Ursula K. Le Guinn’s The Word for World is Forest ; Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth …
LOVE this.... title-shopping is honestly bigger than covershopping lol. a book title that is very enthralling to me is "the looking glass sisters" by gohril gabrielsen.... so excited to get to it!!
One of my favourite authors is Tom Robbins whose novels all have wonderfully quirky titles; "Still Life With Woodpecker", "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues", "Skinny Legs And All", "Wild Ducks Flying Backwards", "Jitterbug Perfume"...and my own particular favourite "Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas"
One of my favourite titles is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society!!! If you haven't read it you should Carolyn, I feel you're gonna love it!!!
For me: "A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea" by Dina Nayeri is my favorite title and possibly my favorite book. I also love "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin, a middle grade book, because of how mythical and fantastical it sounds, just like how the story itself is. That book is a fav because of nostalgia.
I really like 'If on a winter's night a traveler' by Italo Calvino ☺
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Go Tell It on the Mountain 💚
Cool video idea☺️ one of the titles that really took me aback was a book from the Norwegian author Herbjørg Wassmo which translated is called "A glass of milk, please". The title in itself is so innocent and I did not know what the story was about, so I was really surprised when i understood that it was about human trafficking. An amazing and totally brutal book. Tried to find it in english so I could recommend it to you and Emma, but alas. Try looking up the authors name - worth reading, but look up trigger warnings.
"Born a Crime" and "The Audacity of Hope" are among my favorite titles. Also on the list: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "How to be Both" and "La Vie mode d'emploi" ("Life a User's manual").
Some titles I love from books I read
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- A Breath of Snow & Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. I am DESPERATE to read it because that's the most metal shit I've ever heard.
It goes so hard I loved it
Oh it’s so good honestly
In 2013 Robert Macfarlane wrote a book (with two other authors) called ‘Holloway’. A Holloway is usually an ancient road used as for horses and carts or drover’s roads. They mainly exist in the southern part of England, particularly in Dorset and the Isle of Wight (yes that is spelt correctly). They are so old that ground they traverse has almost become a series of tunnels, invisible from the surrounding area. They are truly magical places, often they have tree canopies lit by golden sunlight, to walk there is to walk under a stained-glass cathedral ceiling of a myriad greens. They have a quality that enables them to seep inside your very being and to transport you to a different age. I hope you look into them one day and maybe read his book. regular viewer Claire B
The Bloody Chamber is one of my favorites of all time! I highlighted the crap out of it and think about it all the time!
I love this video idea. I decided to look at past reads as well as my longterm TBR and just list all that had truly compelling titles (if they have an asterisk, I'm recommending them for you to read, in case you haven't.): Of Mice and Men, Braiding Sweetgrass, Les Miserables, Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk*, Little Dorrit, A Stitch in Time, Tender is the Night, Turn of the Screw, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict*, The Sun Also Rises, Under the Tuscan Sun, Positively 4th Street*, Charlotte’s Web, Fear and Trembling*, Twice Told Tales, In Cold Blood, Les Fleurs du Mal, Paris to the Moon, All the President’s Men, Great Expectations, The Catcher in the Rye, Oliver Twist, Dispatches from The Edge*, No Name, Diet for a Small Planet*, Eat, Pray, Love, Just Kids, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir, The Paper Palace, American Melancholy: Poems, While Justice Sleeps, and Also a Poet: Frank Ohara, My Father and Me. Note, if you look up the titles here you aren't already familiar with, you may find some reads that you would really enjoy. I am struggling to pick a title for my own novel and I see that the majority of titles I find compelling are complete noun-verb phrases. Interesting. FYI, I'm going to work the noun "overstory" into my novel. Great word. Thanks. :)
i got really happy when you mentioned "the book of disquiet", i'm currently reading it and love it so much !! i feel very understood by pessoa's writing 🤧🫂 also some books i want to read because of their titles are "the sun also rises", "the turn of the screw", "the satanic verses", "the teahouse fire", "last night at the telegraph club" etc
The book of disquiet is one of my favorites. Can't wait to hear your thoughts about it.
I love booktitles that are a reference to or a quote from another famous work just like TFIOS. Mindy McGinnis has done this as well with some of her works! I also love in cozy mysteries when they have punny titles or that are a play on other classic mysteries: Arsenic and Adobo, Dial A for Aunties, etc.
I bought The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng purely based on the cover and title. I'd never heard of it and didn't have any idea what it was about but it is one of the most beautiful books that I have ever read.
Here in Belgium, Dimitri Verhulst's "De helaasheid der dingen" was voted the most beautiful book title in Dutch. Unfortunately, the English translation, "The Unfortunates", doesn't quite convey the beauty of the original title. I think the translators did a better job with Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's "The Discomfort of Evening" (Dutch: "De avond is ongemak"; or literally "The Evening is Discomfort", but that doesn't sound good in English)
Wow, I can relate! I adore books with beautiful titles. There are so many intriguing examples in the world's literature, but I'd like to share some russian classics here. These titles always give me goosebumps :3
"War and Peace" by L. Tolstoy, "Hero of Our Time" by M. Lermontov, "Queen of Spades" by A. Pushkin, "An Evening with Claire" by G. Gazdanov, "Shadows Disappear at Noon" by A. Ivanov, "Clara Militch (After Death)" by I. Turgenev, "Solomon's Star", "The Pit" by A. Kuprin, "Last Pages of a Woman's Diary" by V. Bryusov, "Black Monk", "Seagull" by A. Chekhov, "Crime and Punishment", "Demons" by F. Dostoevsky, "Dead Souls" by N. Gogol, "Hard to Be a God", "Monday Begins on Saturday", "The Final Circle of Paradise" by brothers Strugatsky, "The Sun of the Dead" by I. Shmelyov, "Dark Avenues", "Cursed Days" by I. Bunin, "Satan's Diary", "The Red Laugh", "Seven Who Were Hanged" by L. Andreyev.
To Say Nothing of the Dog or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last. (All one title.) One of my favorite books.
I'm officially in love with the title 'tender is the night'
Oh my… There are so many good book titles! I'll be thinking about this the whole day! I guess some of my favourites are:
A Hundred Years of Solitude
Near the Wild Heart; Clarice Lispector
Invisible cities; Ítalo Calvino
Sleepwalking Land; Mia Couto
All Men Are Mortal; Simone de Beauvoir
The book of embraces; Eduardo Galeano (you'll LOVE this one, Carolyn!!!)
Some of my favourite titles are not translated to english, but they're:
Distraídos Venceremos (distracted we’ll win); Paulo Leminski
O ex-estranho (ex-stranger); Paulo Leminski
Sentimento do mundo (The feeling of the world); Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Also, I think it's quite funny that Wislawa Szymborska's last book is titled Enough, lol.
The Penelopiad is one in my TBR since ever because of the title
I love Sleepwalking Land too! So many amazing Portuguese/Brazilian titles here! I do not think that Mia Couto’s book maintains the same poetics in the English translation of the title as in the Portuguese however.
@@morbidswither3051 Oh, that's so sad! I've read Mia Couto in Portuguese (I'm Brazilian, hi) and it was one of my favourite readings. The end of Sleepwalking Land has this vertigo feeling that A Hundred Years of Solitude also has that it's just absurd.
But I feel this is a problem with a lot of Portuguese and Spanish written literature... When translated to English, part of the poetics is lost. Latin languages work in a very specific way, specially in colonized countries
Two books I know little to nothing about and yet am extremely intrigued by the titles: Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell and Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. Apparently the latter wasn't received well, but I always love reading Lewis and he was really proud of it so who knows, maybe it's great. Also this was a cool video idea 😊
Keep the Aspidistra Flying isn't bad. Orwell himself thought of it as one of his weaker books (called it a writing exercise he never should have published, but he needed the money), but I liked it. The plot and style are definitely not his best, but it's still worth a read.
@@94blackbelt Yes I've heard he wasn't particularly fond of it but ya know - he didn't write all that much fiction and I've read most of the rest of it so I'm still very interested
Hi! I just discovered your channel from “The Cottage Fairy”. Omg!!! I love books so much! I have favorite words as well but not a favorite letter. How cool is that?! I can’t think of a really cool title at the moment but I’m for sure going to check out some/all of the suggestions here. 😂
The title is even more complicated than that because 'nothing' in Shakespeare's time also meant espionage, so it becomes "Spying Leads to Problems." Also in Shakespeare's time the word 'nothing' sometimes referred to female genitalia which to them compared to men was literally nothing. In that meaning the title becomes "Sex (or Jealousy) Makes People Crazy." I am indebted to Dr. Pincus of CUNY for this fact.
Love this idea and would love to see a list of what you would read based on their covers :)
So glad! :)
I was intrigued by the title, Five Quarters of the Orange. I wondered if it meant too much, not enough, or a metaphor I never heard of. Rented it from the library and the next day at work was asked to lead a multi-year, bear of a project. Didn’t even get to open the book. Hadn’t thought about it until watching this video. For now have a couple John Irving books waiting for me, but someday……. :)
My favourite book title is Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. It is the fifth novel of the marvellous 12 volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Proust is another great title
i love Ocean Vuong’s book titles. night sky with exit wounds and on earth we’re briefly gorgeous
i love so many book titles.
some on my tbr bc of the title-
-i fear my pain interests you
-moon of the crusted snow
-exquisite corpse
-infinity in the palm of her hand
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I’ve read this one and loved it as well as the movie. Another title I haven’t read but am intrigued by is Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. I have it and waiting for the summer to read.
I read As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann just because I thought the title sounded so poetic and it really set the tone for the book!
Two novels by Milan Kundera spring to mind, "The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being". Great titles...great books!
So many great titles and books! 😍
Yes absolutely! Do aspects of the books please. Why are some books bigger than others? What are some aesthetic techniques to make books stand out from others? What obstacles do you face when you want to publish a book? You are creative, how inventive can you be with books? For example. All spines are the same. Would it be possible to design a spine that looks like as if someone took a bite out of it?
I really like Neil Gaiman's titles... Graveyard Book, Neverwhere, Ocean at the end of the lane ....
Some other favourite titles of mine:
-One hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
-My name is red by orhan pamuk
-Tell the wolves I'm home by carol rifka brunt
-will you please be quiet please by raymond Carver
-to the lighthouse by Virginia woolf
-oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette winterson
Some of my favorite titles at the moment: one flew over the cuckoos nest, a canticle for liebowitz, the razor’s edge, east of Eden, a river runs through it, Awakenings
The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu (also love the original cover with the tree)
I really enjoy your videos although I mostly read non-fiction. One of my favorite titles is "A Bright Shining Lie" by Neil Sheehan. It is a biography about a soldier of the Vietnam War, John Paul Vann, whose life kind of represented the whole experience of those tragic years. As does the title itself, a quote said by Vann during the early years of the war. Thanks.
Just found your channel. My first got published in 2003 by st. Anthony Messenger press. They loved my title. It is THE WONDROUS ADVENTURES OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI.
NOW WRITING Inspirational fiction. But want to hand write, illustrate and bind them. So exciting.
I loved "The Guernsey literary and Potato Peel Pie society" by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows, for its title first, and I loved the book...
Read: Of mice and men, A 100 years of solitude, Wuthering heights, Interpreter of maladies
Want to read: basically all Kazuo Ishiguro sound great, never let me go, klara and the sun... + Heart of a dog, the girl who drank the moon, great expectations......
Wow what a cute and fun and exciting video. Your five books are all superb, you’re in for a treat!
You might it interesting that I have a friend named Everlasting. I do think it was such a beautiful name too. Her nickname is Ever, an equally unique name
I want to read Flowerheart becouse the title makes me feel like spring and calmness, i dont know what the book is about but gives lots of nature
Weird quirky Carolyn is the best Carolyn lol 🙌
Books that i put immediately on my tbr because of their titles: You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, A Little Hatred, The Enchanted April, Beloved (by Toni Morrison), Their Eyes Were Watching God, I Capture the Castle and also The Book of Disquiet was on the list as well! Books I've read and love their titles: Cudzoziemka (eng. A Foreigner, by Maria Kuncewiczowa, it's an amazing Polish classic, apparently it's translated into English but I have not found it yet TT), Przedwiośnie (literal translation is early/pre-spring) and Rozdzióbią nas kruki, wrony (Ravens and crows will tear us apart), both by Stefan Żeromski (I guess Polish classics have a lot of my favorite titles) and also The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Two books that caught my eye at the little free library: Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad stories by Sholem Aleichem and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. I have no idea what they are about, just that they are classics and I liked their titles.
13:04 The Overstory is celestial! I love that book!
A book I was attracted to because of the title was "The Unbearable Lightness of Scones" by Alexander McCall Smith. I also think one of his other books has a funny title, "Portuguese Irregular Verbs." So quirky.
I loveee this video so much! So great to hear you nerd out about words and language and wordplay, I really appreciate some nice and clever sounding words and titles myself :)
As a brazilian, i recommend you: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by Machado de Assis, and Near the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector.
I found The Overstory good, but not great -- definitely not Pulitzer-worthy. Advice: take copious notes! The Bloody Chamber is fab, and yes, it's a retelling of Bluebeard. My favorite (so far, unread) books with excellent titles are: Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart by Oats, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino. Who could pass up those titles??? 💚
I’m also very intrigued by Mishima! Confessions of a Mask is another great title by him
In french we have an amazing book untitled "where there limits if so I crossed them but it was for love ok"
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I love the title The Graveyard Book. I love that it's inspired by The Jungle Book
So happy you found Fernando Pessoa. Give a chance to Portuguese literature. You won't regret it. ;) As good titles go, we have "The Piano Cemetery" (from José Luís Peixoto)
3 books on my TBR because of their titles:
- At Night All Blood is Black
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
- A Heart That Works
Hi Carolyn, My favourite Shakespeare play is a Midsummer night’s Dream. There is a truly magical otherworldly film of the play from 1935 that’s available on CZcams. I really recommend to anyone reading this to watch that beautiful film 🎦 its a wonderful, delightful experience. I’d love to hear back from anyone who watches it. 😊 Claire B
Boy Swallows Universe, what a fantastic title and the book is even better.
The perks of being a wallflower!!
Such a great book!
Hmmm, let me see... *stretching up her fingers*
“As I Lay Sying”, “The Pleasure of Hating” (👽), “The Sun of the Dead” by Ivan Shmelyov, “Hello Sorrow” by Françoise Sagan, “The Sorrows of young Werther”, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” by Murakami, “The Chips are down” by Sartre, “About The Insignificance and Sorrows of Life” and “The Art of Being Right” by Schopenhauer.
Also, “Secret Views of Mount Fuji”, “Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun)”, and “Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady”, all by Viktor Pelevin, who I highly recommend and enormously praise.
Wow, that was a lot 😂 But, to be honest, I very often pick up my books by their titles 😅 And I was never disappointed!
Tuck Everlasting was a childhood favorite of mine too. Book of Disquiet is really interesting, it's one I would read in spurts. Mishima is such a beautiful writer. Richard Powers' last one, Bewilderment, really disappointed me.
charming as always.
she who became the sun is the most beautiful title ive ever heard of
I listened to the audiobook of John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed on your recommendation. I can see why you love it so much. I also found it very touching.
As for book titles, I found Philip K. Dick's book titles are unusually creative. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale was made into the movie Total Recall, but I think the book had a far better title.
Fave titles
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Paradise Lost, The Starless Sea, The Book of Longing, 100 Years of Solitude, I Capture The Castle, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Books I want to read bc of the title
A Coney Island of the Mind, The Transit of Venus, The Gods are Athirst, The Lady of the Camellias, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
I like the hidden pun in the title “1Q84”. In Japanese, both “1984” and “1Q84” would be pronounced “ichi kyu hachi yon”.
Some humor books have my favorite titles: _We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us_ by Walt Kelly and _Earth vs Everybody_ by John Swartzwelder.
Love this!
I want to read "The Futurological Congress" by Stanisław Lem and "Life: A User's Manual" Georges Perec. These two have something mysterious about them 👽
I read How to Completely Disappear and Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You I’m Sorry by Fredrik Backman because of the titles. I want to read The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews (Edwards) because it’s a fantastic title!
Oh. . .and I forgot! I love Wide Sargossa Sea!!!
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - one of the longest books - 4215 pages - rated by many as the greatest novel.
"Hello Sadness" of Françoise Sagan
oooh, George Steiner [Book of Disquiet blurb] he wrote one of my favorite books; Fields of Force, but it's not for everyone because it has a lot to do with chess.
Call me by your name is one of my favorite titles. ❤❤
Oh: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and The Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee, who also had The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed. (good titles, all evocative and interesting.) Then there is The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower. It's not science fiction.
Two books I bought solely because the titles made me feel something:
• The Heart’s Invisible Furies
• The Once and Future King
Instructions for Dancing, How to Sell a Haunted House, The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
Same I want to read the girl who drank the moon, because I usually don’t read YA. I have a physical copy so maybe soon!
The Girl who drank the moon is perfect from its title, to the story and the hardback edition is precious.
I’ve heard the same, but haven’t read it either. I hope to read it soon. Tbr’s so long though! 😅
I want to read The girl who drank the moon too!
a good one that I am looking forward to reading is the book of the new sun.
All The Light We Cannot See!
The word 'nothing' in Shakespearean times was pronounced 'noting', Nothing' was a euphemism in Elizabethan times, referring to the female genitalia.
All your weird opinions and childish quirks are some of the best parts about your channel. Don't ever feel like you need to make them go away :)
I read "The Chin Kiss King" just because of the title. It was a wonderful story!