That would be a great book title!

>That would be a great book title!
>Searches on google
>Someone already used it on something

Try and see if you can incorporate it in your book somehow and think of another title

What's your favorite book title? For me it's
>Art and Fear
Haven't even read the book

I like simplistic titles, the less words the better

>Lolita
>The Raven
>Anna Karenina
>Misery
>Leviathan
>The Prince
>The Years
>The Magic Mountain
>Necronomicon

Just use it. If the book with the same title isn't too well-known, nobody will care.

The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying are both great, Faulkner was really fucking good at titles

>Absalom, Abasalom!

Personally I like long and flowing titles, something like Flow my Tears the Policeman Said

>and the ambulance died in his arms
>thus spoke Zarathustra
>Notes from Underground
>The portrait of the artist as a young man
these are god tier titles

This happened to me when I was trying to think of what Shakespeare quote I could attach to my cheap novel to piss off Harold Bloom. I got really excited when I came up with the title The Thousand Natural Shocks but as it turns out, some gay guy used it for his sensitive coming of age novel about a gay guy. He gave it a gushing review on Goodreads and so did his hubby.

>Write good story
>Can't think of a catchy title
>Write solid title
>Can't write a story remotely related to the title

I always wanted to write a book about helicopter soldiers doing war stuff and dying heroically.

I'd call it "Air Calvary" and it would be full of biblical references.

I want to write a gastronomy novel called "The Caged Borborygmi"

Sounds awesome. Needs geopolitical subtext and neomasculine themes

There are still verses in the Bible and Shakespeare that haven't been used; and if you can't find your title there, don't bother publishing at all.

>The Hamlet
Yeah, let's take one of the best known plays of Shakespeare and add the definite article to its title. See, I can do it too: behold my new novel, "The Macbeth"!

These anons know. Here are some more:
>Everything that Rises Must Converge
>In the Heat of the Night
>Six Problems for Don Isidoro Parodí
>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
>The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh Prop.
>Trout Fishing in America
And then there are those titles that just sound like random words put together that make no sense and don't give any idea of what the work is about. These sometimes overlap with the first category:
>Lookout Cartridge
>In Watermelon Sugar
>Finnegans Wake
>Nightwood
>The Crying of Lot 49

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>I have no idea that words can have multiple meanings
Hopefully bait

>A hamlet is a small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision of a larger, or be treated as a satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hemelet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church.

>Veeky Forums digs overexplicative titles, instead of focusived and precise small ones
Brainlets everywhere

let me guess, your title was something like A Knight's Tale

>that title
Feels like I just read the whole book.

Quick Veeky Forums, what's the title of your book.

Blood Meridian Or the Evening Redness in the West is a title that I really enjoy

Another

But then I realized there was some weeb garbage with that name and I'm nameless

Dear god what's the source for that image

If you wrote a book, what would your title be?

>Demiurge

>less than trash

>take a good title you thought of
>take a good story you wrote
>combine them together
There is no need to thank me.

"Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" - Philip K Dick
"The Beautiful and Damned" - F Scott Fitzgerbalderoni
"The Gulf War Will Not Take Place/The Gulf War Is Not Really Taking Place/The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" - Baudrillard

aww shit you beat me to it

At Two Swim Birds

>Messiah

>tfw you realise you contribute in nothing to the universe and the money is not worth degenerating yourself for, but at the same time with this realm faded to destruction and the imminent complete and inevitable darkness in the end you ask yourself if its right or wrong to have broken the morals your father taught you, but he is not home anymore, but what if you will meet him in the afterlife? will he accept that you succumbed for the carnal desire for the plastic? As the guy shoves his genitalia up your throat you reflect if its even worth thinking anymore

The nigger that that couldn't

I'm going to thank you

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

"Gravity's Rainbow" is a beautiful title desu

Man of taste and culture

I want to write something comfy bu all my titles are edgy garbage

Best title

>That would be a great book title!
>It isn't taken

>Living amongst the Dead (2016)
>amongst the Dead
>amongst
>m
>o
>n
>g
>s
>t

For the love of sweet merciful FUCK! That was meant for another God damn thread! Still, I like that title.

>middle school set-books
>taste and culture
Big lol desu

Maybe "blanket"

Blanket Fuzz Teenage Tugjob Burger Fries and Malt

T. Borroughs and Faulkner after a brain transplant

Just do it anyways

This, I like my titles short and honest. If they can faithfully describe the inside in four words or less, it's perfect.

>Lost Illusions
>War and Peace
>The Flowers of Evil
>Arabian Sands
>Hunger
>Storm of Steel
>A Midsummer's Night Dream
>The Idiot

Well, apparently Knausgaard wasn't very worried about it.

The Man Who Was Thursday.

>Storm of feels

ESL here, is amongst wrong? It looked fine to me.

Titles aren't copyrighted. There are a bunch of books named "White Light" for instance.

If you manage to sell to a big publisher, they'll want to pick the title.

cringe

...

Shes just thinking she should have asked for more

Don't know what ESL mean, but some people find it cringy to use words like 'amongst', 'whilst', and so on.

every combination of short and honest titles has already been used

Probably not true, and it doesn't matter if the title has already been used. Originality is less important than accuracy.

Do you really think Dostoevsky shouldn't have used "The Idiot" because someone else probably used it before? Who even cares, if he's so much better than the competition? The only titles you should consider "used" are those of masterpieces, i.e. using "The Idiot" (or "Moby Dick", or "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"), because it would be ridiculous to do so.

decemberfish

Loser

Don't be so blatant on the self-insert user

English as a Second Language

But I have wrote a book user!

Link it

Ah, fair enough, thanks.

Np

>Catch-22
>East of Eden
>The Third Policeman
>All Quiet on the Western Front
>Great Expectations
>The Trial
>A Clockwork Orange
>The Importance of Being Ernest
>Fuck This Book
god tier

Yep, these are great. I'd add:
Journey to the End of the Night
Labyrinths
Something Happened

Writing titles is easy, the boring part is writing