1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Owning Making by Catherynne M. Valente. All the books in this series, of which this is the first, have deliciously long titles. I absolutely love this one. Say it out loud. It rolls off the tongue in an amazing way.
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. I think this is very clever. It gets the reader past the starting spot in a hurry.
3. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonnasson. The book is nearly as silly as the title and I laughed my way through it.
4. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman. I just finished this gem. What a fun and unique book. Its subtitle helps set the stage.
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Maybe not as long as some but a title worth repeating for the brilliance of the book.
6. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. The heart and soul of this book is as big as the title is long.
7. The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by D.C. Pierson. The title once again gets the readers off to a good start.
8. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. I was always trying to get students to read this hilarious book and never had much luck at it. Do you think it was the title that did it in?
9. The Girl Who Fell Below Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente. I decided that I loved the first title so much I should share the title of the second book in the series.
10. A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee. A book as fun as its title.
Note: as I perused by reading list I noticed it is usually nonfiction titles with long subtitles that were the likely subjects of today's TTT. I decided to stick with YA and Adult fiction titles only. Hence I don't have any of those big, long, wraparound things that you find on nonfiction books.
-Anne
