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Maureen Mackey
June 5, 2009, 11:57 AM Wild and Crazy Book Titles: The Latest List By Maureen Mackey

  I can't help it:  These books arrive and their titles are just too amusing, clever, amazing, or wild and crazy to ignore--which is exactly what their creators wanted them to be.

    People will do almost anything to cut through the clutter. (And to a point, they certainly should--dare I state the obvious by saying there's a lot of clutter out there.)

    So, without further ado, and with gratitude and other appropriate kudos to those who dreamed these up, here's another round of funny, clever, and decidedly memorable book titles:

 

    1.   WHERE UNDERPANTS COME FROM:   From Checkout to Cotton Field Travels Through the New China and Into the New Global Economy

    2.   HE'S HISTORY, YOU'RE NOT:  Surviving Divorce After 40 

    3.   IF YOUR KID EATS THIS BOOK, EVERYTHING WILL STILL BE OKAY:  How to Know if Your Child's Injury or Illness Is Really an Emergency

    4.   IGNORE EVERYBODY:  And 39 Other Keys to Creativity

    5.   CAREER SUCCESS WITHOUT A REAL JOB:  The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations

    6.   PEOPLE ARE UNAPPEALING:  True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy

    7.   FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MALARIA:  How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life

    8.   FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR PEOPLE FINDING OUT YOU'RE USELESS: A Dilbert Book

    9.   WOMEN ARE CRAZY, MEN ARE STUPID:  The Simple Truth to a Complicated Relationship

   10.  FATALLY FLAKY:  A Novel

   11.  I DIDN'T WORK THIS HARD JUST TO GET MARRIED

   12.  QUIRKY, YES, HOPELESS, NO

   13.  GO GREEN, GET LEAN

   14.  STEPMONSTER: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

   15.  MBA IN A BOOK: Three Books in One

   16.  SLANTED AND ENCHANTED: The Evolution of Indie Culture

   17.  SELLING WHEN NO ONE IS BUYING

   18.  GO ASK YOUR FATHER: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing

   19.  WAGGING TALES:  Every Animal Has a Tale

   20.  SIR CUMFERENCE AND ALL THE KING'S TENS:  A Math Adventure 

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By ryan45, 06/19/2009, 3:50 AM EDT
Agree with Ignore Everybody, a book that's spot on in so many ways. Latest amusing title I found was The Bald Identity, haven't read it but eye catching to say the least Sir Cumference??? News to me!
By ryan45, 06/19/2009, 3:49 AM EDT
All good names. Found one called The Bald Identity, but haven't read it. Ignore Everybody is a classic though, and surprisingly spot on
By siddiqialice, 06/09/2009, 7:41 PM EDT
Yes and then there's My Husband Ran Off with the Nanny and God Do I Miss Her! a novel by Tracy Davis and Give Him Back His Balls, a self-help relationship book by Brigitte Sumner.
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