Add your titles to the list of literary might have-beens

Would we still be reading A Story of Two Cities, or The Small House on the Prairie? Give us your titles that didn't quite make it into the literary canon

The quicksilver nature of literary success makes it all too tempting to think about what might have been. In his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens recounts a quirky version of this bookish fantasy which he devised with Salman Rushdie.

Salman began to evolve and improvise a new word game, this time of book titles that had almost but not quite made it to acceptance by publishers: The Big Gatsby, A Farewell to Weapons, For Whom the Bell Rings, Good Expectations, Mr Zhivago, Two Days in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

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