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An expanding collection of book titles which I have found arresting ...

Below is a partial list, which I  expect to expand, of those book titles I found  memorable. This is not  to say they were  all great reads, although many were, just intriguing titles. Forget cover art. Let the images flow.

Please add a few of  your own favorites in the comments section

if you wish ...

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The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit

bell hooks - The Will to Change

Ta Nehisi Coates - Between The World and Me

Sapiens-A Brief History of Humankind by Yaval Noah Hurari

Sebastian Junger's Tribe-On Homecoming and Belonging

Chasing the Scream    by Johann Hari

Geofrey Jenkins had great tiltes - A Grue of Ice, River of Diamonds, Twist of Sand.

Gabor Mate's book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, makes my list for its title, but especially for content.

So does Riane Eisler's The Chalice & The Blade.

Duty or Pleasure?   by Albert Ple

Farley Mowat's The Farfarers 

The God Particle by Leon Lederman & Dick Teresi

Book of J by Harold Bloom & David Rosenberg

The Warmth of Other Suns  by Isabel Wilkerson

Barefoot Girl Out of Ohio by Carole Estrup

Edwin Black's War Against the Weak

Katherine Frank's A Voyager Out

 Encounter With An Angry God by Carobeth Laird

 Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Gary Zukov's The Dancing Wu-Li Masters 

 Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

Thom Hartmann's Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (I'm not sure whether it was the title or author's name)

Until the Sun Dies by Robert Jastrow

The Good War  by Studs Terkel

Rick Bragg's The Prince of Frogtown 

Heads or Tales   by Terry Rizzuti 

Redeployment  by Phil Klay

The World is My Home by James A. Michener

Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run With the Wolves

The Devil at Large by Erika Jong - a loving study of Henry Miller

Deer Hunting With Jesus & Rainbow Pie, a Redneck Memoir by Joe Bageant

Bram Dijkstra's Idols of Perversity

Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion

Blood on The Tracks-the life and times of S. Brian Willson by Brian Willson   

Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin  

Richard White's Railroaded

Fall From Glory - the men who sank the U.S. Navy - by Gregory L. Vistica

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera 

 Neil Sheehan's  A Bright Shinning Lie                     

    


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Reviewed by Jansen Estrup
Reviewed on May 17, 2013
How about Time Enough for Love by Robt. A. Heinlein?

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on April 13, 2013
A most engaging list, Jansen. Thank you for sharing it. It makes me feel a bit guilty that I don't read more; not nearly as I did when I was younger. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on April 11, 2013
They say many judge a book by the title, and here you've provided multiple reasons why. Without intriguing titles, most books never get opened. Such is true, I believe, with all written disciplines. Thanks for sharing.

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