I just finished The Last Mandarin by Louise Penny (5 stars).  The main character has a tense relationship with her mom and early in the book came this:  “My mother loves a monster.  Now there’s the title of a Grade-B movie.”

It made me laugh and lead me to thinking about some other funny titles that I’ve read over the years.

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip Dick)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sachs)
• How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You (Matthew Inman)
• The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Elisabeth Bailey)
• The 100–Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)
• Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi)
• Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Nick Flynn)

Of course, there are a LOT of funny titles out there; I suppose authors think it will hook readers into picking up their books.  It certainly works on me.

Here are a few others I found online…

• No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain’t Never Coming Home Again (Edgardo Vega Yunque)
• And To My Nephew Albert I Leave The Island What I Won Off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game (David Forrest)
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender)
• Shit My History Teacher Did Not Tell Me (Karl Wiggins)
• Everything I Know About Women I Learned From My Tractor (Roger Welsch)

Of course, now I’ll have to read these too!

Any funny titles on your reading list lately?