Fun With Classic Book Titles

In New York Magazine’s Competition 15, we’re asked to “submit the title of an almost familiar literary classic.” Here are the fake titles I submitted:

A Tale of Two Biddies

The Catcher in the Pumpernickel

Grapes of Math

Jane’s Hair

The Plaque

Moby’s Schtick

Moby’s Dick

In Search of Lost Rhyme

Of Mice And Women

The Big Nap

The Tin Eardrum

100 Years of Solitary Confinement

The Executioner’s Bong

Lorna Doone Cookies

Middlemay

The Miller Needs to Floss

The Turn of the Screwdriver

The Importance of Being an Internist

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One Response to “Fun With Classic Book Titles”

  1. z. alexi says:

    As a book editor for 3 decades, I find these book titles excellent & guffaw-worthy. Sorry, don’t know anyone who bought a hardcover book last yr. Books are becoming gone w/the wind.