Better Book Titles is an amusing collection of attempts to rename well-known works of literature. The results are pithy and appropriate, summarizing everything you really need to know about a book right on its cover (ex. Oedipus Rex becomes “How I Met Your Mother,” The Giver = “Love in the Time of Death Panels,” and Atonement translates to “Kids Say the Darndest Things”). There are so many entires to browse and chuckle over in the archive, it was difficult to comprise just one “top ten” list from them! Take a peek at the selection below, then tell us which book you’d like to rename in a comment.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell