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Pet Sematary by Stephen KingThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeAccomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary by Vivian CookEveryone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
Deliberately Misspelt Titles
168 books — 27 voters
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstExophony by Yōko TawadaText Structure by Nelly TinchevaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaThe Power of Babel by Michel Pierssens
•Lingualish'tics
106 books — 16 voters

Breasts by Florence WilliamsA History of the Breast by Marilyn YalomThe Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League InternationalTitters by Judith Jacklin BelushiThe Breast by Philip Roth
Breasts in the Title
177 books — 16 voters
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceI Seem to Be a Verb by R. Buckminster FullerA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessRiddley Walker by Russell HobanUlysses by James Joyce
Books Bordering on Unintelligible
12 books — 13 voters

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyDune by Frank HerbertEragon by Christopher PaoliniThe Crust on its Uppers by Derek RaymondFrek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker
Novels with Glossaries
36 books — 8 voters
Passing Clouds by G.A.A. KentThe Music and the Wood by G.A.A. KentAn A - Z of Looney Limericks by Bernie MorrisABC of Astrology by Bernie MorrisCabbie with a Dangerous Mind by Karl Wiggins
Chatty Catheters
102 books — 7 voters

Beloved by Patty SarroA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best YA Books in Slang Fiction
2 books — 5 voters
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary of Buckish... by Francis GroseI Love it When You Talk Retro by Ralph KeyesStraight from the Fridge, Dad by Max DécharnéSmaller Slang Dictionary by Eric PartridgeHow to Commit a Murder by Danny Ahearn
•One Horse Open Slang
120 books — 5 voters

Barry Humphries Book of Innocent Austral Verse by Barry HumphriesThe Mystic Mantle; or, the demon spider and the angel fly by James Harry BunnWar Crimes by Peter CareyTechnicians of the Sacred by Jerome RothenbergOceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
Upside-Double-Under-Southern-Crosstralia
132 books — 4 voters
Morvern Callar by Alan WarnerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerLast Orders by Graham Swift
They said this was written in English
3 books — 1 voter

Dan Burley's Jive by Dan BurleyCroaking Frogs by Les MorganSpeech and Speech Disorders in Western Thought before 1600 by Ynez Viole O NeillKa by Hugh CrosthwaiteBeyond Pure Reason by Boris Gasparov
•I Was Young And Heard Your Flattering Tongue
100 books — 1 voter
How to Be Ace by Rebecca BurgessFallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver BaxterHow to Ace Fake Dating by Alex KramerDear Wendy by Ann ZhaoStubbed Toes and Dating Woes by Dahlia Donovan
Fiction With “Double-A/Triple-A Battery” Characters
13 books — 1 voter

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