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2020 Challenge - Regular
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20 - A book you picked because the title caught your attention
Some recs with titles I love:The Boy Who Steals Houses
Cherry Crow Children
Every Heart a Doorway
Beneath the Sugar Sky
River of Teeth
The Knife of Never Letting Go
City of Saints and Madmen
From my TBR:
How to Set a Fire and Why
Dreams of Shreds and Tatters
Revenge and the Wild
The Luminous Dead
This is so subjective! Here are 4 that fit the profile for me:The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
Grendel's Guide to Love and War
The Last Suppers
The Beast is an Animal
The Marriage Game by Alison Weir. At first glance, it appeared to be a book about a fictitious TV game show or a book that could have been made into a movie starring Debbie Reynolds or Sandra Dee or Doris Day, but upon second glance, I found out that it's about Elizabeth I.
These are two books I read for past challenges that I picked up because of the title (loved both)The Map of Salt and Stars
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your DogThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Crafting with Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts to Make with Your Cat
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist
Come Hell or Highball
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Murder Is Bad Manners
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes
Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
I was thinking of using it for the 20+ words in a title prompt, but it would also work for this one. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
That's how I added Well Met to my TBR so I'll probably go with it. I also added My Sister, the Serial Killer because the title intrigued me too. I'll probably find another place to slot that one.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversAlex and the Ironic Gentleman
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
I like titles that are weirdThe Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island
The Cannibals of Candyland
Books I chose based on the title that I enjoyed:My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
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Other books, if I hate the dumpling book:
Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake (I guess I’m hungry when I’m at the library)
Bucky F*cking Dent
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
You Die When You Die
How to Be Both
Having a Coke with Godzilla
this shouldn't be beautiful but it was & it was all i had so i drew it
One of my favorite titles that was the first thought I had when I saw this prompt:Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
But I also like:
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind
Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air (same author/series)
Trust Me, I'm Lying
The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington
Donna Has Left the Building
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
Space Unicorn Blues
Linda wrote: "I was thinking of using it for the 20+ words in a title prompt, but it would also work for this one. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows"I definitely bought this one because the title caught my attention.
I just remembered another book I read due to the title, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being HatedSome that I have read for the title have already been suggested here by others.
This is one book I was able to remember off the top of my head because I got it for this very reason – Running with Scissors.
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I like Death by Dumpling quite a bit, Nadine.Here's another fun title in my TBR:
Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain
Sex and Rage: A NovelDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Limbs: A Love Story
Prostitute Laundry
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
Chronicles of a Radical Hag
I added Space Unicorn Blues to my to-read list solely because, with a title like that, how could I not? Looks like it's getting added to the list...Other possible titles:
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
John Dies at the End
Working with People I Want to Punch in the Throat
Brandon wrote: "Here's another fun title in my TBR:Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain"
This is one of my all-time favorite audiobook narrations.
poshpenny wrote: "Brandon wrote: "Here's another fun title in my TBR:Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain"
This is one of my all-time favorite audiobook narrations."
Thanks for the recommendation! I am not usually an audio reader, but I might sample this and see how it goes.
Here's one I read this year after the title caught my interest, the story of the Hatfield-McCoy feud:An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States
A bit macabre, maybe but when I went to NOLA and visited some local book shops, it DEFINITELY caught my attention!1 Dead in Attic
The three on my TBR that I picked because of the title:Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows (Balli Kaur Jaswal)
Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Christopher Moore)
The Autobiography Of Santa Claus (Jeff Guinn)
I just finished reading Death of a Gigolo, by Laura Levine, which I picked up at the library because the title caught my attention. It would definitely work for this prompt, plus a couple of others.If you're interested, I just posted a review of the book on my blog.
https://theunapologeticbookworm.com/2...
I immediately thought of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, so I'm going to go with that.Other contenders:
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
Kill the Farmboy
The Oracle Year 
The World is a Narrow Bridge
I read this book because of the title: 
The Jewish-Japanese Sex and Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
Actually I DNF'd it because it was not a very good book. So, I wouldn't recommend it. But it does have a great title!
Actually mine is going to be This Book is Gay which I forgot was on my bookcase and originally bought because the name caught my attention, so I think it fits a lot better!
Jessica wrote: "A bit macabre, maybe but when I went to NOLA and visited some local book shops, it DEFINITELY caught my attention!1 Dead in Attic"
Although I have not read his book, I did read Chris Rose’s newspaper chronicles during the months following Katrina. He interjected the right amount of humor during a trying time.
I hope you enjoyed your NOLA visit and let us know about the book.
Happy reading.
Fool on the Hill and Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt RuffBooks I read because of the title that started my obsession with everything the authors have written, ever:
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
Books I bought because of the title still on my tbr shelf:
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Tagebuch eines Sentimentalen Killers (Diary of a sentimental killer) by Luis Sepúlveda
A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil
I was just scrolling through my library's ebook app and this comic caught my eye. It's definitely a contender for this prompt. Something is Killing the Children #1
While browsing upcoming new releases at Berkley’s Website, this one caught my attention, so thought I’d toss it out there for anyone else looking for ideas: 142 Ostriches
Just finished this challenge. I picked a nonfiction book called “surrounded by idiots”
I went with The Chain by Adrian McKinty!
I was talking about books with a friend today (as you do) and remembered a book I read a few years back called The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - thought it might be an intriguing title for anyone who is still looking for a book for this prompt.
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky sounds pretty sweet. I don't usually read MG but I may make an exception for this one. Also I like the cover:
Just finished reading Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid. A true crime book about the disapperances & murders on Indigenous women & girls along Hwy 16 in British Columbia.I think this book could also be used for the following prompts:
A book containing a map
A book about a subject you know nothing about
A book by a journalist
A book with a three word title
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