John Steinbeck

Book Titles

The title of a book is so important - and not many people have titles as consistently good as Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in my humble opinion) - and I suppose that is linked to the fact that not many people write as well as he does (again ... in my humble opinion..) Think of these:

Love in the time of Cholera

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

No-one writes to the Colonel

Memories of my Melancholy Whores.

The General in his Labyrinth

General

Other titles I like, from other authors

Up in Honey's Room - Elmore Leonard

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street - Dr Seuss

Death is a lonely business - Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Looking for Transwonderland - Noo Saro Wiwa

Looking for Transwonderland

OK I'll stop now ... but it is a hard thing getting a title right, and it does matter!