As always, Top Ten Tuesday meme is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Top Ten Unique Book Titles
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Why I like it: It’s creative. Androids look like human but what kind of dreams do they have? Do they dream of sheep? This is somehow very clever title.
2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury / Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Why I like these two: They are just iconic titles. A catch-22 is a paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules. And Fahrenheit 451 is a pretty genius title for a book where the books are burnt.
3. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Why I like it: Let the Right One In…not the wrong one. Except that in this book it’s kind of the wrong one anyway.
4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Why I like it: It’s a combination of something beautiful, yet devastating. There’s all this beautiful, amazing light and we cannot see it.
5. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Why I like it: There’s a surprise in the title. Anything could have happened. For example, By the River Piedra, there were birds…or maybe a boat? But this makes you wonder that who is crying.
6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Why I like it: Because it’s odd. It’s like something has gone terribly wrong with the orange and it is now half clockwork.
https://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/04/20/a-clockwork-orange-resucked/
“I do not think so because, by definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State.”
7. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Why I like it: You can guess that it will be a wild ride ahead.
8. Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski
Why I like it: Madness is ordinary. Or is there something mad with the ordinary?
9.The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Why I like it: Because I don’t quite get what it means but because it’s obviously meant for me. You know.
10. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Why I like it: The symbolism goes over my head (if I didn’t catch it). Knife is obviously not only a knife. It’s a decision
Happy TTT! What are the most unique titles you’ve encountered? Do you like these?
Definitely ‘the slow regard of silent things’ it sounds beautiful! Its a very odd book as well…
It’s very Auri like :)
I was originally drawn to All the Light You Cannot See by the title. There’s a certain reverence and beauty about the word order.
Very talented book title :)
Good choices.
And I always liked ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’
That’s a great one too :)
Amazing choices. These titles definitely caught my eye.
great list. These titles are definitely catchy ones.
My TTT: http://flippingthruthepages.com/2017/10/top-ten-tuesday-6-top-ten-unique-book-titles/
Ooh, some really interesting titles here! A few I haven’t heard of, and others on my TBR! Great list, here’s my TTT: https://bookmuffin.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/unique-book-titles/
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? does sounds very interesting to me! I like your list!
It’s a very special one. Thank you!
I love the promise of these intriguing titles!
https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2017/10/unique-book-titles.html
Great choices! I especially love All the Light We Cannot See, The Knife of Never Letting Go, and Fahrenheit 451.
My TTT: https://dwellinpossibilityblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/top-ten-tuesday-unique-book-titles/#more-14289
All the Light We Cannot See is perhaps my favorite one :)
I kind of included Fahrenheit if you consider using it in a bookstack to support my selection of “A Clockwork Orange” as included lol! Nice list! Feel free to check mine out here: http://nerdnarrationblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-unique-titles/
They’re kind of obvious but still so classic that I just had to include them haha. Thanks!
I feel you! This topic wouldn’t have felt right without at least one classic sprinkled in the mix!
Some very interesting and unique titles here!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/top-ten-tuesday-130/
I always thought Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was a good title. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Excellent one :)
Really great choices!
Cool post! My pick? M.R. Carey’s The Girl With All The Gifts.
That’s a good one too! :D Makes you wonder about the type of gifts.
It’s not quite what you expect. :) It’s a great read!
Love all these titles!! Great choices!!! I think my favorite would have to be: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. Sounds very interesting!! Great post!!
My TTT:Unique Book Titles
Yeah it’s one crazy book. Thank you!
You definitely have some unique book titles!
Here’s a link to my TTT post for this week:
https://myknittingjouneyonestitchatatime.blogspot.com/2017/10/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-unique-book.html
I like your take on this week’s prompt. One of my favorite things is that moment when you are reading a book is that moment when you finally figure out the meaning of the title or better yet when the title is in the text. I find that so satisfying!
I know right :D Title takes like 10 % of your reading/ reading thinking time
The Slow Regard of Silent Things is my kind of title. I think I need to read that one.
Definitely if you liked Auri
Great list! I love of these titles, especially If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller.
My TTT
All the light we cannot see!! that book wrecked me so much! I haven’t finished the review, but I will be publishing it soon haha I love that book! Your list is amazing!! Thank you, Ana!
Yeah it just totally destroys you :) Should review it myself actually. Thank you :3
We just posted the review!!! :3 I am so excited!! Haha hope you like it! I will wait for the review :3