Great Hatred Little Room and other terrible titles

[Hofzinser]

I quite enjoyed reading the extracts from this book when it was serialised in the Guardian recently but the main thing that struck me was what a truly awful title it had been given.

Any more examples of similarly bad book-titling?

[Wyatt Earp]

Great Hatred Little Room and other terrible titles

Yeats innit.

[Hofzinser]

Great Hatred Little Room and other terrible titles

Ah, right. In that light, the title seems quite good. Thank heavens this happened in Books where hardly anyone will see it.

[Guest]

Great Hatred Little Room and other terrible titles

I always thought Boxy An Star was a terrible name for a novel.

[kugelrund]

Great Hatred Little Room and other terrible titles

The Bookseller just released its "oddest book title of the year" list.

The winner was If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs.

Second and third place went to I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen and Cheese Problems Solved respectively.

Past winners:
The Joy of Chickens

Living with Crazy Buttocks

American Bottom Archaeology

Versailles: The View From Sweden

Re-using Old Graves

Highlights in the History of Concrete

Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers

The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories

People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It

How To Avoid Huge Ships