Please Don't Ask Me What I'm Reading
Books with weird, strange, absurd, or just hilarious titles Please comment your own suggestions
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created by wednesdaymourning
last updated August, 2026
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have quite a few suggestions n totally understand if they don't all make the cut! the amount of very unique titles i come across in thrift and indie stores is forever growing
- Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma's Half-Eaten Pie of Despair by Tom Lucas
- It's Killing Time in the Villages by Tom Levine (the elderly swingers paradise in FL, I genuinely can promise no one can guess the next plot point at any time)
- God's Ghostbusters: Vampires? Aliens? Werewolves? Creatures of the Night Beware! by Thomas Horn et al
- Destroy All Humans, They Can't Be Regenerated (manga) by Takuma Yokota
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
- Beauty and the Beasts: Women, Ape and Evolution by Carole Jahme
- DisneyWar by James B Stewart
- The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
- The Joy of Sects: A Spirited Guide to the World's Religious Traditions by Peter Occhiogrosso (totally missed the joke in the title until a coworker went "haha, like sex")
- Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha: More Marvelous Tales of Historical Artifacts by Harvey Rachlin
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Mitchell Fink
- Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon, Newly Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition 4th Revision by Michael Ghiglieri and Thomas Myers (keeping my eye out for any future editions lol)
- Videohound's Sci-Fi Experience: Your Quantum Guide to the Video Universe by Carol Schwartz
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came across some others I saved elsewhere too lmao (hope some of them make you laugh!)
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
- Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous
- a cage went in search of a bird (anthology including Naomi Alderman, Elif Batuman, et al)
- The Freaks Came Out To Write by Tricia Romano
- Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics by Edward Haslam (yes this is all on the spine of the book too somehow)
- Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in U.S. History by Peter McIndoe and Conor Gaydos
- The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism by Constance Cumbey
- Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes
- The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
- My mother she killed me, my father he ate me edited by Kate Bernheimer
- Scattering His Virgin Bloom by Aya Sakyo
- The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories by Mike Rothschild
- The Goblin Reservation by Clifford Simak
- The Wizard War, British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 by V Jones
- Stuffed by the Were-Turkey by Tate McKirk
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Oh-My-Goddess I am OBSESSED đ adding them this evening! Thank you so so much!
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im happy to keep you supplied if I come across more!! đ«¶âșïž
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