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15 Books That Hooked You with Just the Title
A great book with a lousy title may never lure a reader as they roam the bookstore. Would The Grapes of Wrath be so beloved if it was called Tenant Farmer Tales? We don't think so.
Titles have power—and a good one can stop readers in their tracks. We asked on Facebook and Twitter: What books have you read just because the title caught your eye? Check out the top answers below.
Titles have power—and a good one can stop readers in their tracks. We asked on Facebook and Twitter: What books have you read just because the title caught your eye? Check out the top answers below.
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Amish Vampires in Space. I picked it up completely based on the title expecting it to not hold up, and it really surprised me. The writing was good and I was gripped the whole way through. Just shows you that a good author can make anything fun! :-)
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I have a whole slew of books that hooked me with intriguing titles. Some of my favorites (the titles, not necessarily the books) include:The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared;
But He Was Already Dead When I Got There;
Chicks In Chainmail (the beginning of a delightful series);
The Drastic Dragon Of Draco, Texas;
The Fire Engine That Disappeared;
For Murder I Charge More;
The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything;
Hotel Transylvania (love this series, too);
I Want To Grow Hair, I Want To Grow Up, I Want To Go To Boise;
I Woke Up Dead At The Mall (very funny YA);
Jane Jones: Worst. Vampire. Ever.;
The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch;
The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun;
The Man Whose Name Wouldn't Fit;
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson;
Meanwhile, Back At The Castle;
Miklos Alexandrovitch Is Missing!;
Now You See It / Him / Them . . .;
October The First Is Too Late;
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead;
The President Has Been Kidnapped!;
The President's Plane Is Missing;
Raise The Titanic!;
The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream;
The Shy Stegosaurus Of Cricket Creek (read in grade school, 60-plus years ago);
Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe;
Something's Alive On The Titanic;
T. Rex And The Crater Of Doom;
The Technicolor Time Machine;
They've Shot The President's Daughter!;
This Suitcase Is Going To Explode;
Venus On The Half-Shell;
We Almost Lost Detroit;
Who's That Lady In The President's Bed?;
Why Shoot A Butler? (my first Georgette Heyer mystery);
An XT Called Stanley;
Yesterday We Saw Mermaids;
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes;
Zombies Of The Gene Pool
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra, Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell, Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd,
These are the ones that come to my mind:Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (the movie was nothing in comparison)
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
In the Land of the Lawn Weenies (and Other Warped and Creepy Tales) by David Lubar
The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley: (who planned to live an unusual life) by Martine Murray
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Nobody Else Has to Know by Ingrid Tomey
The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn
The Wasp FactoryThe Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman
I am reading Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookshop ATM and its great :)
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir|have not read it yet but it's on my TBR.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. Got attracted by the title, wasn't disappointed. Another book by Murakami that sounded intriguing (but, for me, didn't live up to the allure of the title) is Kafka On the Shore.
Also, The Book of Proper Names and Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothombe caught my interest by their titles and over-delivered.
Lucas by Kevin Brooks. I read this 10 years ago and it is always with me!
Brazilian writer Marçal Aquino has a book entitled "I would receive the worst news from your beautiful lips"
The gallery of vanished husbands, Natasha Solomons A heatrbreaking work of staggering genius, Dave Eggers
The girl whi saved the king of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson
The Girl who swallowed a cloud as big as the Eiffel Tower by Romain Puértolas La petite fille qui avait avalé un nuage grand comme la tour Eiffel
Jim Butcher has hooked me so far with his Academ's Fury series so far and would love to start from the beginning with the Dresden files.Have heard good things about author Michael J. Sullivan so need to try out one of his fantasy books and the Shannara chronicles books so would love to check those out too.
it would be awesome if Vic Mignogna wrote a fiction novel. I would def read that if he did. ^_^ The Nightmares series by the guy from How I met your mother is pretty good too so far.
Cinnamon and Gunpowder, by Eli Brown. 
Being Familiar With a Witch by Sapphire PhelanA Familiar Tangle With Hell by Sapphire Phelan
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy by Robert Arthur
Die Katze, die im Schrank verschwand (The cat who disapeared in the closet) To be fair I didn't have a cat back then.
