Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is Books with Long Titles.
Sometimes I am very grateful to have my handy dandy spreadsheet that goes back 15 years, especially for prompts like this when I can quickly search, or scan through the lists, to come up with ideal options.
So here are 10 books I have read at some point the last 15 years which have pretty long titles
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale - I like the Suspicions of Mr Whicher as a title but Murder at Road Hill House probably gives you a bit better idea what the book is about.
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice by Nam Le - Long title for a short story
The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa by Alexander McCall Smith - This is a long title for a collection of short folk stories.
Welcome to Rosie Hopkins Sweet Shop of Dreams by Jenny Colgan - What a sweet story...pun intended
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Maryann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - What a lovely book this was. It has been a long time since I read it!
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean - This is the first book in a trilogy of books with long titles
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodent by Terry Pratchett - Never miss a chance to include a Pratchett in the list!
I think any title which takes more than one breath is probably to be considered long, and all of these are that. It gives them a feeling of added importance, I think.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet lots of whimsical books have long titles too Deb.
DeleteThe Girl Who Married a Lion sounds interesting!
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I have always enjoyed books set in Africa Lydia.
DeleteSome great titles. I keep seeing the Guernsey book which I also have on my TTT.
ReplyDeleteGuernsey was the first book I thought of Marianne!
DeleteMe, too. But it wasn't my longest title.
DeleteI'm so curious about The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodent.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday.
It was a lot of fun Astilbe!
DeleteGreat selection of titles.
ReplyDeleteThanks Maria!
DeleteWow! You found some long ones. In general, I'm not a fan of long titles, although I have found some that intrigued me or just made me smile.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
I can't say that the length of titles affects my choice of books one or the other. Shorter is better though because generally I end up shortening the long title anyway!
DeleteAlan Bradley is the Flavia de Luc books if I'm not mistaken? I haven't read them yet! But if you like them, I will most probably too.
ReplyDeleteYea for The Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society! I've also added it. Here's the rest of my list: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Book Titles
Yes, Alan Bradley wrote the Flavia de Luc books. i really need to finish that series.
DeleteOh goodness. These really are long titles!
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of long titles out there Deanna!
DeleteThe Flavia books very nearly made my list. It's funny that some of your choices were titles of short books/stories!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you noticed that Jen! It amused me when I was putting the list together.
DeleteI've read a couple but long titles sometimes put me off my interest!
ReplyDeleteI don't know that it would put me off something I really want to read, but maybe it would put me off something I wasn't actually sure about.
Deletethis is a fun post. thanks for sharing your choices
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
Thanks for stopping by Sherry!
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