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Most Beautiful Title?

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corneggs

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What is the most beautiful title of a book? It doesn't matter if you've read the actual book or not.

For me, it's Nino Ricci's "Where She Has Gone". I want to pick it up and lick it off the shelves because of that title. Alas, I still haven't had time to read it.
 
Flowers of the Moon and Other Lunacies. My desire to read it is only made stronger by the fact that all the short stories contained within its pages were penned by Robert Bloch.
 
Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat

I also like how Wayne Johnston titles his novels. The Navigator of New York, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Custodian of Paradise for example.
 
I think Gabriel García Márquez has a real knack for titles.

Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
 
No one Writes to the Colonel, The Autumn of the Patriarch, The General in his Labyrinth...

Yeah, Marquéz knows how to invent great titles!
 
Not really beautiful within the context of what the words themselves mean, but "Slaughterhouse Five" is very beautiful to the ear.
 
I think "Shadows of the Wind" is a very beautiful title... especially when you know the content of the book!
 
I think there's something majestically beautiful about His Dark Materials and Wuthering Heights has always sounded fantasically beautiful to me.
 
I agree that If on a Winters Night a Traveller and The Remains of the Day are beautiful.

I really want to read that Calvino but it's proving difficult to find.
 
Patrick McCabe's Breakfast On Pluto
I've never read it though...

(And I have to agree on that If on a Winters Night a Traveller is a really beautiful title.)
 
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