That's Not a Fall Out Boy Song??
I've fallen back into my Fall Out Boy era, so was inspired to make a list of books with titles that sound like they could be early Fall Out Boy Songs.
This list is purely subjective and doesn't take into account anything about the book other than the title.
As always, open to suggestions! 🤠
created by ErinYeager
last updated July, 2026
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If you're in the wrong place and WERE looking for books that are also Fall Out Boy Songs, go check out userlia's list here!:
YAAAAAAAAASSSSS WHAT AN AWESOME LIIIIIIIST!!!! ERIN YOU ARE MY HERO !!!!
YOURE LITERALLY SO KIND VALOUZ!!! THANK YOU!!! 🥹💕
this is great lmao, i'm giggling at You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty being on here because the author said it was inspired by a Florence + the Machine lyric!
May i submit Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This for consideration? hehe
OMG REALLY?!? that's actually such a funny little coincidence. I knew nothing of the book when I added it here.
Also, love those suggestions, I'll add them into the Not Fall Out Boy™️ discography!
oh this list is so sick LMAOO i love it!!! all of these so sound like FOB titles
if you’re taking any suggestions, i think someone who will love you in all your damaged glory by raphael bob-waksberg would fit here!
Looove this I’m cackling 😂
Me too!! 👏👏👏
OMG thank you, it quite literally came to me in a dream
Hilarious list concept! I would like to submit for your consideration:
The World Keeps Going, and the Works Keeps Ending by Franny Choi I have the Right to Destroy Myself by Yoon Ha Kim gas
Thank you, thank you!! 🥲🥲
Also, love the ideas, added to the discography!
love this concept + the genius of fall out boy song titles 😆 for your consideration: Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
Thank you and right, they're so great!!! Also, that is a wonderful suggestion, I'll add it shortly (might have to add it to tbr too)!! 🙂
Love this, they really do sound like FOB songs.
So happy to hear, I spent so long combing through lists of books 😅
As a FOB fan, I fully support this list. 🫡🫶
OMG THANK YOU!!! Glad this wasn't a shot in the dark and other people see the vision 🙂🫂
I do not know my FOB well enough (but I could do this for MCR which is still not a phase here😜) to judge titles but I present to you the following —
(check back later, I’m editing - plus I’m shelving books so I’ll keep note of any long titles to bring you you later after I review the albulms).
Everything Begins & Ends At The Kentucky Club by Sáenz The Lavender Leotard; or, Going a Lot to the New York Ballet by Gorey The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys - Gerard Way 👀 Love in the Palm of His Hand -Rinteku A Natural History of Transition - Callum Angus Anthem of a reluctant prophet -Proulx
OMG STOP, it's not a phase here either. Literally just called and told my mom yesterday that my taste in music hasn't changed since I was 15. MCR and FOB are both still very present in my playlists
Also, I'm so sorry it took me like three days to get back to you, but I wanted to double make sure you were done with your edits. I love the suggestions, I'll get those added in shortly!! Thanks for the contributions!! 🙂
Didn’t actually end up thinking of too many or finding many while shelving. But I appreciate you giving me time (and I’m not worried about how long you may take), Pagebound is timeless with reason ;)
Haha. I change taste all the time but come back to almost everything at some point. Always shared my love for MCR with my mom though which shocks people.
whats funny to me about parents saying its a ohase you will grow out of is that my parents said this while also exclusively listening to the bands they listened to when they themselves were teens... absolutely 0 self reflection on their part smh.
i loveeee this list! i’ve always admired FOB’s and PATD’s song titles in my youth 🙂↕️
my suggestions would be: I Who Have Never Known Men, A Song to Drown Rivers, and If You Could See the Sun ✨
Also, I've never heard of Ann Liang, I'm going to have to check out her books!
Same here! It's so funny though going back as an adult because I recognize the song titles, but could tell you NOTHING about what the song is until it's played
Also, those are wonderful suggestions, I'll add those 🙂
Bless today’s emoji for allowing me to find this gem of a list. It’s truly something special, some (me) might say perfect 😂
OMG THANK YOU FOR COMMENTING!!! I always forget to check the emoji of the day so was so confused why this was getting an influx of likes all of a sudden!!!
Also, I'm so happy you enjoy it!!! 🙂
I forget to check them too, until today!! Truly a blessing hahah. Glad your list is getting the love it deserves, it’s so fun!!
I love this list soo much ‼️ I was due for my fob lockdown listening phase of this year and I think this is the sign. Do you mind if I make a companion list Wait that IS a Fall Out Boy song 🫣 I'm curious how many I'll find
OMG YES!!! take this as the sign to start that phase again 🙂↕️
Also, I LOVE that idea and think it's so funny!!!! If you make it, I'll link it here as additional reading for this list. I'm very curious how many there are out there 🙂
Hehe thank you for your blessing! 😊✨️ I'm back with the list and I'm quite surprised by some of my finds; a couple authors here were almost certainly making fob references themselves and that's so neat!
OMG THAT'S SO MANY MORE THAN I WAS EXPECTING!!! also love that they were making the references and it wasn't just a coincidence.
This is such a funny duo of lists, thank you for making the twin to it!!!
Ikr!! And the reference thing I can't prove but I would be surprised if "Sugar, We're Going Down" wasn't meant to be a fob reference ahaha
Yeah that feels maybe a little TOO on the nose to be a coincidence. I support the theory that it's a reference 🙂↕️
Just reiterating what everyone has said: this list is awesome and hilarious
I would listen to all of these 🤘
I personally think that if you made a fool of death with your beauty and only dull people are brilliant at breakfast were actual songs, those would be my favorite ones 🙂↕️
I love Fall Out Boy, always have, always will
OMG thank you!!! 🥲💕 I really spent so long overanalyzing if they actually did or not.
Also, love the ideas, consider them bonus tracks on the album!
Obsessed that you put the Gerard way book in the fob playlist
