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What are some of your favorite titles? They can be those of any piece of media, not just books!
I think my absolute favorite title of all time is The Promised Neverland, which was a decent show (and originally a comic) that I don’t think needed a second season.
After that, in no particular order:
- Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? – comic
- Sandman: A Game of You – comic
- Fullmetal Alchemist – comic
- Wise Blood – novel
- Trout Fishing in America – Short stories
- There’s Treasure Everywhere – comic
- Shadows of Self – novel
- So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away – novella
- Over Sea, Under Stone – novel
- Number the Stars – ? (I just realized I have no idea how Middle Grade books are classified by length… I know I’ve never heard of an MG novella before, though that’s what this looks like by its length)
- No Country for Old Men – novel
- Mother Night – novel
- The Lathe of Heaven – novella
- Kafka on the Shore – novel
- The Talos Principle – game
- The Evil Within – game
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream – short story
- The Wolf Among Us – game
- The Court of the Crimson King – song
- Veteran of the Psychic Wars – song
- Apocalypse Now – movie
And I might be a little biased, but I really like a couple of the titles I chose for my own stuff:
- Which You Have Ordained – short story
- Bowling with the President of the United States of America – short story
- Ordo Astromantica – novel
@taylorclogston Fullmetal Alchemist is one of my favorite mangas. As is Promised Neverland. Also, the manga was much better than the anime. They ruined the second season.
My personal favorite is the literal translation of Her Blue Sky, which is “To Those Who Know of the Blueness of the Sky”, a movie. A shame that they often don’t translate the titles literally over.
But yes, in no particular order, other than that which comes to mind:
- The Brothers Karamazov – Novel
- The Voices of a Distant Star – Movie
- 5 Centimeters Per Second – Movie
- Night on the Galactic Railroad – short story I think….?
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days – Movie
- Dandelion Wine – Novel
- The Girl From the Other Side – Manga
- Wanting to Cry, I Pretend to Be a Cat (literal translation) – Movie
- Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (literal translation) – Movie
- A Silent Voice – Manga
- 20th Century Boys – Manga
- Evil Flowers in Full Bloom – Light novel
- The Town Where Only I Am Missing (literal translation) – Manga
- Your lie in April – Manga, anime
- Heat Haze Days – Song
- To Your Eternity – Manga
- I Want to Eat Your Pancreas – Light novel, manga, movie
- East of Eden – Novel
- My Sweet Orange Tree – Novel
- Wind, Sand, and Stars – Memoir
- And Then There Were None – Novel
- No Longer Human – Novel
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Novel
- Six of Crows – Novel
- I Am The Messenger – Novel
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Novel
- Paper Towns – Novel
- Inception – Movie
- Midwinter Memento – Poem
- Upon the Tainted Sorrow – Poem
- Aron on the Wind – Song
- Gone With the Wind – Novel
- I Am A Cat – Novel
- Yesterday’s Shadows Tag – Book(?)
And, uh, some of my own:
- Those Who Exist Outside of the Madness of This World – Collection of Stories
- I Hid Beneath My Umbrella So the Adults Wouldn’t See Me Cry – Short story
- Like Cherry Blossoms in the Spring, So My Tears Fell Freely That Day – Novelette
- Only the Cicadas Remained – Book
"I set a melody upon the scenery I saw outside my window;
It's beginning in my spacy world."
- TKOoh, cool topic!
Here are some that come to mind immediately.
The Rooftoppers- novel. (The translation of this was “Sophie on the roofs” and just… no.)
The Wolf Wilder- novel
Second fiddle- novel
The Scourge- novel
The King’s Fifth- novel
Counting by 7s- novel
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered- series
The Chesire Cheese cat- novel
Without darkness, there is no light. If there was no nighttime, would the stars be as bright?
Ooh, this is hard, but I’ll have a go at listing a few of my favourites.
- A Tale of Two Cities–novel
- The Eagle of the Ninth–novel
- The Lord of the Rings–novel and movies
- The Hobbit–novel
- The Chronicles of Narnia–series
- Howl’s Moving Castle–book and anime
- Unnatural Causes–nonfiction
- All That Remains–nonfiction
- The King’s Speech–movie
- Moana–movie
- Mulan–movie
- Tangled–movie
- Little Dorrit–book
- Hinterland–tv series
- The Prisoner of Azkaban–movie and book
- The Dry–book
And I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot of others, but that’s what I can think of right now.
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My favorite title for a book is Andrew Peterson’s Monster in the Hollows. It’s an ingenious title because of the storyline, and because there are several monsters in the story and all the plot twists that suddenly leave you second-guessing who “the monster” really is.
Another one is Cobwebs and Cables, by Hesba Stretton. The actual story has nothing to do with cobwebs or cables, but by the end it’s obvious why the book was named that. The plot is so twisting, confusing and amazing that you literally feel like your brains have been scrambled.😂
The Anne of Green Gables series has very suiting names. Anne of Green Gables focuses on her younger live at Green Gables, and the others build off of that as she grows up (Anne of Avonlea, and then Anne of the Island).
The last one I can think of is Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. I really like names that have meaning in a book, or are obvious why the book was called that (especially if the name shows up in narrative😊).
I think all of the Chronicles of Narnia were really well-named too.
"If I'm gonna break, I'll break like the dawn." -Nightbirde
Hi! This looks fun.
So, here’s some of my favorite MG novels in no particular order:
The Ascendance Series (Nielsen)
When You Reach Me (Stead)
Walk Two Moons (Creech)
The Green Ember (Smith)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Barnhill)
And here’s my two favorite tv series:
Psych (minus the weird holiday specials)
BBC’s Sherlock Holmes.
And random MG/Children’s books that have really cool sounding names: (which I haven’t had a chance to read yet, btw).
Royal Rabbits of London
A Song Only I Can Hear
The List of Things That Will Not Change
Grandpa’s Great Escape
A Ben of All Trades
When Pencil Met Eraser
The Astonishing Maybe
@devastate-lasting @rose-colored-fancyBtw, I love your guys’ profile picture. Did you paint/draw those yourself?
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. — Ernest Hemingway
@imwritehere1920 Ah, thank you! I wish, but no, I just found it on Pinterest.
"I set a melody upon the scenery I saw outside my window;
It's beginning in my spacy world."
- TKCool topic!
MG/Children’s Novels:
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (haven’t read yet, but awesome title)
Holes
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (title is barely explored though. Otherwise, a decent book)
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Trumpet of the Swan
The Twenty-One Balloons
The Westing Game
A Wrinkle in Time (I don’t like the book, but it has a cool title, though I think it’s more like “A Wrinkle in Space”)
YA
All the Crooked Saints
Blank Mastermind
Gathering Blue
Orbiting Jupiter
Tuck Everlasting
Adult, General, Classics, and Nonfiction
Lord of the Rings
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
More Than Dates and Dead People
Till We Have Faces
Tremendous Trifles
When Athens Met Jerusalem
Et cetera:
“Achilles Come Down” – song (warning: f-bomb)
Biblios – card game
Dixit – card game, haven’t played but cool Latin title
Huggermugger – board game
The Man Who Never Was – movie
“Nico and the Niners” – song
“Three Birds in Babylon” – song
“We Don’t Believe What’s on TV” – song
“Windmills of Your Mind” – song
and that’s all I can think of right now!
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@devastate-lasting I really like those choices! I love the drawn-out nature of a lot of those original Japanese titles. The Town Where Only I Am Missing is probably my favorite on that list. I also really like your I Hid Beneath My Umbrella So the Adults Wouldn’t See Me Cry.
@rose-colored-fancy I like The Rooftoppers title!
@seekjustice Howl’s Moving Castle is one of my favorite movies, but I never read the book since I heard they’re very different. It does have a fantastic title.
@arindown Very nice choices. I think I love every one you mentioned.
@imwritehere1920 Nice choices. Also, Psych takes me back. I used to watch that with my brother after we finished karate class.
@sparrowhawke I’ve never heard of Blank Mastermind before, but that’s an amazing title 😮It’s a fun book. It’s about a villain who gets amnesia. You can read the original serial on writefury.com. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting a light, funny read.
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Aww, thank you! Yes, I did! It’s a digital painting of a character who may become the MC of an idea. Awesome to meet another Ascendence fan, btw! Those books are the best!
Totally! I like it much better than the translation. The title is both original and quite intriguing since it gives you a lot of questions.
Totally forgot to mention one of my favorites!
The Red Ribbon- book.
I love the title because a. it sounds cool, b. it conveys an important aspect of the book, dressmaking, and c. in the book, a red ribbon becomes a symbol of hope, which is also the theme of the story. It’s an awesome, layered title.
Without darkness, there is no light. If there was no nighttime, would the stars be as bright?
@taylorclogston Thank you! The Town Where Only I Am Missing, also known as Erased, is one of my favorite manga series! I highly recommend it if you like mystery/time travel.
"I set a melody upon the scenery I saw outside my window;
It's beginning in my spacy world."
- TKRooftoppers is one of my favourite books (and titles) ever! Every time I look it up though, it tries to auto-correct it. xP Rather annoying, but I still love it so much!
Some of my favourites are:
Rooftoppers – novel
Echo – novel
Cartwheeling In Thunderstorms – novel
Dust – novel
Heaven’s Twin – novella (my own)
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. -JRR Tolkien
Moon Over Manifest – novel
The Sea Before Us – novel
The Sky Above Us – novel
The Land Beneath Us – novel
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future. -JRR Tolkien
@devastate-lasting Gotcha, I didn’t realize that was Erased. I’m afraid I’m not a fan of time travel stories. An old roommate was telling me about Erased when the show was airing and between the premise not grabbing me and him saying the ending was mediocre, I never had interest in watching it. Is the manga better than the anime?
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