Less Ambitious Novels

A couple of days ago, I spotted people on Twitter using the hashtag #LessAmbitiousNovels to present joke titles for… well, less ambitious novels.  Here are some of my favorites of the ones I came up with:

1974
A Passage to Indiana
A Shrub Grows in Brooklyn
A Waiter of Earthsea
A Wrinkle in Cloth
Fit Club
Howl’s Stationary Castle
I Have a Guess as to Why the Caged Bird Sings
In Front of the Looking-Glass
Jonathan Livingston Seashell
Life of 3.1
Little Apartment on the Prairie
Lucifer’s Hamper
Medic Zhivago
Middlefebruary
Murder on the Orient Local
On Her Majesty’s Postal Service
Rendezvous with Ramen
Something Naughty This Way Comes
The Call of the Tame
The Cider House Guidelines
The Dime Machine
The English Out-Patient
The Hoarse Whisperer
The Kite Holder
The Left Pinkie of Darkness
The Man Who Folded His Paper
The Mote in Bob’s Eye
The Once and Future Squire
The Only Child Karamazov
The Pickwick Paper
The Princess Fiancee
The Puppy of the Baskervilles
The Satanic Haiku
The Spy Who Liked Me as a Friend
The Time Traveler’s Girlfriend
The Visible Man
Tinker, Tailor
Uncle Tom’s Shed
Vegetable Farm
Weeds for Algernon
Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance

Some of my favorites from other people:

A Farewell to Wrists (Haas Cross Puns)
A Game of Chairs (Damien Walter)
A Polaroid of the Artist as a Young Man  (Wakefield Mahon)
And Then There Were Five  (Wakefield Mahon)
Battlefield Perth (Wakefield Mahon)
Dinner Comes for the Archbishop (Jennie Goloboy)
Fahrenheit 98.6 (Stephen M. Harmon)
Have Space Suit… Will Go Back To Bed (Jamie Todd Rubin)
Some of the King’s Men (Wakefield Mahon)
Speaker for the Sick  (Bryce Moore)
The Andromeda Sprain (Carl Stark)
The Black Gelding (Linda Poitevin)
The Ending Story (John Stevens)
The Girl With the Hello Kitty Tattoo (Nick Mamatas)
The Grapes of Mild Irritation (Stephen M. Harmon)
The Handmaid’s Towel (Wakefield Mahon)
The Middle Aged Man and the Pond (Patrick Tracy)
The Postman Always Rings Once, Then Leaves it With a Neighbour  (Kate McHale)
The Red Badge of Participation (Larry Correia)
The Right Fielder in the Rye  (Bryce Moore)
The Sign of the Three (Michael Collings)