For the past few weeks, book-loving Twitterers have been amusing themselves by coming up with Less Interesting Books. Here are a few of my favorites:

The Devil Wears Hush Puppies (@TheJaneChannel)
To Give a Mockingbird a Stern Talking To (@andrewvanorden)
A Farewell to Arms: Coping with Amputation (@waltonky)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Glendale Galleria (@peteFweiss)
The At-Times-Slightly-Unpleasant-But-Altogether-Perfectly-Manageable Lightness [...]

Titles are many a writer’s Achilles heel. Even the greats had trouble—F. Scott Fitzgerald, for one, originally considered several alternative titles for The Great Gatsby, including Trimalchio in West Egg and The High-Bouncing Lover. (Yikes.)
Each weekday, Dan Wilbur’s blog Better Book Titles features one book, retitled more honestly—and hilariously. Some [...]

Trimalchio in West Egg. A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis. Catch-18. Even the greats struggle with their titles sometimes, toying with titles like these before settling on The Great Gatsby, Portnoy’s Complaint, and Catch-22.
So what makes a good title–or a bad one? Author and teacher Eric Puchner has some thoughts in [...]