In which the title is comically long

We love books with a verbose title, and this list celebrates them! Suggestions welcome đŸ€—

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created by kimiii

last updated February, 2026

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I’m submitting Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (how do I italicize)

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You can find instructions under "how do I format text?" in the FAQs

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Added! You can put the text you want to italicize in between asterisks (*) or underscores (_). And you can put text in bold if you add double asterisks (**) or double underscores (__) on each side. Idk if it's clear, you can check this website: Markdown

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Thank you!!

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Thank you all for your input! I will add in this comment the full version of book titles that were shortened and still made the list:

  • Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Story of the BuendĂ­a Family and the Town of Macondo

(I never thought we would get to 80 books holy hairballs đŸ€“)

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I think Babel's full title is Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

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I wish the full title was still used, it's so much more telling I think!

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me too! I think the publisher still labels some copies with the full title, but most are just babel i feel

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I love this list! I like to refer to these as 'fall out boy titles' đŸ€­

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Omg yes! That and panic! at the disco (specifically their album a fever you can't sweat out) 😆

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haha yes! bring back the days of needlessly long song titles

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fall out boy titles 😭😭😭 I love it

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i was JUST going to comment and say fall out boy titles SAME BRAIN

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I'm submitting I Will Kill your Imaginary Friend for $200

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This is hilarious. I see so many mangas and new anime’s with long titles, it’s fun to see different mediums doing it as well. 😂

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Oh yes I don't know much about manga so I can't even imagine how many long titles there are! This is super fun to put together đŸ™‚â€â†•ïž

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I'd like to suggest They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib.

Also, this is a great list. I love long titles!

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ohhhhh good addition

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I’m a big fan of adding this book to as many lists as possible.

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Same, same! Abdurraqib is such a great author.

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This is a fun list! The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender came to mind when I saw this 😄

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Added, thank you đŸ«Ą

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I loved Whump!... In Which Bill Falls 632 Miles Down A Manhole by Suzie Day when I was a kid. I just added it to PageBound in case it makes the cut!

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Fun list! In addition, I recommend How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler (and the sequel, Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me).

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I think Cosmic Love at The Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare fits here lol

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I think I might have a winner: "Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out"

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Ding ding ding! Omg this seems like the longest title we've seen yet! Thank you! 😌

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Fun idea!! Now I wonder how ridiculously long these could get haha

Some candidates off the top of my head:

  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
  • If you tell me to come, I'll drop everything, just tell me to come
  • 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
  • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
  • The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
  • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (and the similarly long-titled sequel whose name I forget 😭)

Also, the full title of Frankenstein is technically "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" so I think that should count.

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Thank you, I added them! Frankenstein I'd love to add but it doesn't have the longer version on PB 😱

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Check out this book on Pagebound! https://pagebound.co/books/50861882-784a-4dda-b0f8-aabed7e822ff

Sweetness at the bottom of the Pie.

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I fear it's not as long as the other books!

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My suggestions: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon Both of those also have at least one long-winded sequel 😂 FOB titles forever đŸ–€

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Wow these are lengthy haha love it! Thanks 🙌

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Ooh also The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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The first time I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime I was like oh?? You can just name books like that?

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Exactly! I love how unique it is 😊

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LOL great list! if you are accepting recs, i have a few mangas that might work 👀 problem children are coming from another world, aren’t they? i’ve been killing slimes for 300 years and maxed out my level the world’s finest assassin gets reincarnated in another world as an aristocrat my daughter left the nest and returned an s-rank adventurer villainess 99: i may be the hidden boss but i’m not the demon lord

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Someone mentioned manga before but I'm not too familiar, these are good additions so thank you!

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of course! i also made sure that all these titles are on pb HAHA, but so happy to contribute đŸ«¶ manga is notorious for long and silly titles đŸ™‚â€â†•ïž

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OH also, the guy she was interested in wasn’t a guy at all đŸ«Ą

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I have a few nonfic ones, in case you want to add more to the list :)

The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It by Alice Procter

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Kira Thurman

Reframing Blackness: What's Black about “History of Art”? by Alayo Akinkugbe

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such a fun list! may i suggest When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

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All this is missing is literally anything by Chuck Tingle. It’s a treat, you’re welcome😁

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His book titles are.... interesting to say the least 😂

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May I present for your consideration: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing Grand Chief Salamoo Cook is Coming to Town! The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito

The above titles all by Tomson Highway

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I found more! These ones are Louise Erdrich: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse The Master Butchers Singing Club The Future Home of the Living God

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I could only find the first book, but it's added 😃

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Oh! And the children's classic: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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I have a suggestion! Roxana by Daniel Defoe is a good one. It may be one of the longest titles yet! In full, it’s: The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II)

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Good find! Why does that woman remind me of Danaerys and her several titles in Game of Thrones 😂

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She’s got nothing on Daenerys. Imagine that title if you had to list them all out!

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