If you can’t judge a book by its cover, how do you pick a book out of the sea of titles out there? Why, you’re drawn to a particular book by its title, of course. Some titles provoke a visceral reaction of pleasure that compels you to reach out and take the book off the shelf. Even if many of these turn out to be duds, a few are pure gold.

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• Recommend another book with an unfortgettable title!

Leah Hager Cohen’s Heart, You Bully, You Punk (the title comes from a poem by Marie Ponsot called “One Is One”)

James Conrad’s Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago

John Dufresne’s Love Warps the Mind a Little

Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Herbert Gold’s She Took My Arm As If She Loved Me

Allan Gurganus’s Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Alice Mattison’s Men Giving Money, Women Yelling and The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman (in addition to being a superb novelist, she’s hell-on-wheels at coming up with compelling titles)

Sharyn McCrumb’s If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him

Nicholas Mosley’s Hopeful Monsters

W. M. Spackman’s Armful of Warm Girl