I haven't read Thursday Next, but a friend of mine really likes them. I just give the author credit for writing a sentence out of using the word "that" seventeen times in a row.

Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three

"Expecting someone taller" (Tom Holt)
"Wish you were here" (Tom Holt)
"Food for the fishes" (David Wishart)

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant

Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities"
James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Hermann Hesse's "Der Steppenwolf"
Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint"
Peter Ackroyd's "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem"

and also, I know it's not strictly relevant, but II always thought that Public Enemy's "It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" was the best album title ever.

Theodore Sturgeon, Some of Your Blood.

Someone's already mentioned this one, but this has become one of my favorite phrases, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."

Again, Bill Watterson's already been mentioned, but I think that some of the Calvin and Hobbes albums have the best titles ever. My personal favourite would have to be Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat.

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I think that some of the Calvin and Hobbes albums have the best titles ever

I second this notion.

"Eggs of Steel." Reputed to be one of the worst videogames ever, I still would've bought it for the name alone. Eggs! Of! STEEL!

And "Popolocrois" is just so fun to say.

zoneseektalked about one hundred years of solitude , i think thats interesting ;couse
ive just finished love in times of colera
and loved it . i really did .
wen i was reading it i started to talk more with
girls , and we went places . this idea crossed my mind : Gabriel Garcia Marquez makes me want to live my live even more , and to make more love .

The Vatican Rip - Jonathan Gash

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein

The Glass Teat - Harlan Ellison

Women Are Beautiful - Garry Winogrand

Round the Bend - Nevil Shute

Berlin Game, Mexico Set, & London Match - Len Deighton

I like 'em simple, rhythmic, or both. And I'd kill to have come up with Mexico Set. Bumbuhbum-BUM.

I kinda like the "Grapes of Wrath".
Especially since I was told that a faulty Japanese translation once came out under the title "Angry Raisins".

I mean, come on! It's cute. Grapes are the most un-pissed off fruit imaginable.

hee. they translated Monty Python and the Holy Grail as...the Sacred Sake Cup. I love it!

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Teilhard de Chardin via Flannery O'Connor.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: More fun if you puzzle out what it says on your own.

A Clockwork Orange, since it fits the book OH so well.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Through the Looking Glass always tends to strike me as well, but I don't know why.

Surfing Samurai Robots.

Unfortunately, the book did not live up to the title.

American Gods

So You Want to Be a Wizard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad.

Already Dead (Charlie Huston)
No Dominion (Charlie Huston)
Half the Blood of Brooklyn (Charlie Huston)
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog!) (Jerome K. Jerome)