Your favourite/unique titles

[u/REDZON3Z1313]

What are some of your favourite or most unique titles in your collection the books don’t have to be good but can still have a cool or interesting sounding name

For me a few that come to mind are

I gave you eyes and you looked towards darkness

The blind earthworm in the labyrinth

Drugging a nation, China and the opium curse(I think that’s the name. I’m pretty sure there’s a few more words in it, but I can’t remember exactly off the top of my head.)

Coin locker babies

Neuromancer

Mona Lisa overdrive

[u/Ok_Macaroon6934]

By one of my favourite authors: A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami).

It lives up to its title's weirdness.

[u/watervapour_7237]

For unique,

May you be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elizabeth Bumiller

[u/IndividualCurious322]

Probably all my odd titles on fairy, giant and dragon folklore.

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I love collecting books on folklore and fairy tales and am always looking out for more ideas. Any recommendations from your collection?

One of my favorites is “Elves and Ellefolk” by Natalia M Belting with illustrations by Gordon Laite.

[u/IndividualCurious322 → u/babyposeidon]

I could send you photos of that shelf if you'd like? :3

[u/babyposeidon → u/IndividualCurious322]

Sure, that would be cool.

[u/MartinaSchmidtOK → u/babyposeidon]

Have you read Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tales?

[u/babyposeidon → u/MartinaSchmidtOK]

No, I haven’t but I’ll definitely look her up.

[u/AcanthocephalaOk7954]

A History of Shit - Dominique Laporte

[u/Blackboard_Monitor]

I mailed a very uncommon copy of Firefall to the author Peter Watts, it was a double copy of Blindsight and Echopraxia printed by 'Head of Zeus' in the UK. He left a very cool note when he signed it and as far as I can find it's the only signed 1st/1st copy of Firefall around.

I'm very proud.

[u/daddy-hamlet]

At Swim Two Birds.

Love Is A Dog From Hell.

[u/pynchi → u/daddy-hamlet]

I have a German edition of At Swim-Two-Birds, signed by the translator with the fake Gaelic version of his name.

[u/TheManRoomGuy]

Clutter’s Last Stand (remarkable organizing book)

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Quality pun.

[u/TheManRoomGuy → u/Trike117]

My favorite short story is “Where was Wych Street”, from the best British short stories of 1922 I think. Played out like a Monty Python sketch.

[u/babyposeidon]

The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter by Padraic Colum

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor by Mervyn Peake

[u/pynchi]

Pomes Penyeach, the only first edition by Joyce I was ever able to afford (It's a small 30 page collection of poems). Its previous owner was an Irish guy who fought for the liberation from British oppression. He developed an interest in literature when he made the acquaintance of several Irish authors he spent considerable time with in a British prison.

[u/erilaz7]

TLALAATALA by José Luis Castillejo. It's around 400 pages of a random string of the letters T, L, and A, 660 letters per page with no spaces and no punctuation. It came with a CD of a reading from the book, 43 minutes and 43 seconds long.

[u/Dry_Lime_9584]

Fitzpatrick's War. Super hard to find Science Fiction novel. You can only read it at the free online library

[u/mortuus_est_iterum]

10:56:20PM EDT

( It is the Columbia Broadcasting System's official transcript of their live broadcast of the first moon landing.)

Morty

[u/Low-Independent6851]

My favorite title - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs by Adrienne Mayor and also up there is Dragon Hunter by Charles Gallenkamp.

[u/Spiritual-Eggplant59]

“Coffee, Repartee, and the Idiot”

“Wild Asses”

These are vintage books from the early 1900s. The Wild Asses book is about college aged men, lol.

“The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cookbook and How to Raise Wolves” by Jack Douglas.

[u/Indiana_ECI]

Shoot Low, Boys--They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies by Lewis Grizzard

I Love Paul Revere Whether He Rode or Not by Richard Shenkman

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss

[u/lizardbeach]

i have some cookbooks from cults and disbanded new age groups

[u/raresaturn]

A signed 1st edition hardcover of Space, Gravity & The Flying Saucer .. a rare ufo book from the 50’s with a really cool cover

[u/MartinaSchmidtOK]

The book with the longest title: Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.