Tips for Brainstorming Book Titles

If you’re not part of the lucky group of writers that knows the title of their book right from the start, we have compiled a few tips to help. By the end of these book-titling exercises, you should be able to put together a decent list of potential titles for your book. The list of prompts below should help spark ideas. Read them one day at a time (so you can look at them with fresh eyes each time) and write down any book titles that come to mind. Keep in mind, book titles should ideally be 5 words or less (not including the subtitle).

Consider the essence of your book.

What is your book really about? Is there an underlying theme that runs throughout your story? What is the conflict?

Look over the text.

Are there any lines that jump out at you when you read your book? Any particularly interesting pieces of dialogue?

Add perspective.

How do your characters see themselves? What would people think of the ideas that your book presents?

Consider the visual.

Is there a special setting, event, or object? Can you describe its uniqueness?

Add some mystery.

Pique readers’ interests by teasing them with your title. Create a question, mention something of meaning without explaining it, or express your book’s main theme as a dilemma.

Change up your words.

Try exchanging a commonplace word for a more unusual word.

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