Non-Fiction - Better Book Titles

TITLES: NON-FICTION

Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf - "The Fascist and the Furious"

Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf

Reader Submission: Tyler Snodgrass

Alan Weisman the world without us, funny, book cover, a tree grows wherever it wants

Alan Weisman: The World Without Us

Andrew Marr: The Real Elizabeth - "YAS QUEEN"

Andrew Marr: The Real Elizabeth

Reader Submission: Anya Garrett

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Too Big to Fail - "Bankers Love Saying 'Fuck'"

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Too Big to Fail

Ani Phyo: Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen - "Baking Bad"

Ani Phyo: Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen

Reader Submission: Anya Garrett

Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird - "I Finally Finished This Book So I Could Get Back To Doing Anything Besides Writing"

Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird

Aron Ralston: 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place - "A Farewell To Arm"

Aron Ralston: 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Autobiography of Mark Twain - "Do Not Publish Until 100 Years After My Death, It’s Embarrassingly Unedited, Volume 1"

Autobiography of Mark Twain

nickel and dimed book funny alternate cover, poor dad poor dad

Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed: On Getting By on America

Bill Bryson: A Brief History of Nearly Everything - "The Smartest Scientists In The World Don't Know What's Going On, And A Meteor Could Kill Us At Any Moment"

Bill Bryson, A Brief History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything - "Thousands of Interesting Scientific Facts I Forgot Seconds After Closing The Book"

Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson: At Home - "Even The Nicest Home Is Probably 1/8th Rat"

Bill Bryson: At Home

Bill Bryson: The Body - "Your Brain Makes Up Half of What You Experience and the Other Half Science Can't Explain"

Bill Bryson: The Body

Bill O’Reilly: Killing Lincoln - "An Inconvenient Booth"

Bill O’Reilly: Killing Lincoln

Reader Submission: Tyler Snodgrass

Brett Martin: Difficult Men - "You Don't Necessarily Need To Be A Raging Asshole To Make Great Television (But It Comes In Handy Sometimes)"

Brett Martin: Difficult Men

Brian Masters: The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer - "Eat, Prey, Love"

Brian Masters: The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

Reader Submission: Tyler Snodgrass

Charles Darwin: On The Origin of Species - "After All This I Still Married My Cousin (And Had Sickly Children)"

Charles Darwin: On The Origin of Species

Reader Submission: Maggie Patterson

Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit - "Cold Sores Can Turn You Into That Guy From Memento"

Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit

Cheryl Strayed: Wild - "wander woman"

Cheryl Strayed: Wild

Reader Submission: Tyler Snodgrass

Chuck Klosterman - Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - "Everyone's A Fucking Dick Except Me"

Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs

David Allen: Getting Things Done - "Write Shit Down"

David Allen: Getting Things Done

Reader Submission: Sean Collins

A better book title for David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, funny meme, literary joke, lol, DFW

David Foster Wallace: A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

David Foster Wallace: Consider The Lobster - "Beating the Dead Horse to Death with a Large, Unwieldy, Enormous, Heavy Thesaurus Until the Equine Corpse No Longer Breathes Life"

David Foster Wallace: Consider The Lobster

Reader Submission: Shannon

Donald Trump Jr.: Triggered - "Too Dumb for Prison"

Donald Trump Jr.: Triggered

Donald Trump: Crippled America - "Negging My Way to the White House"

Donald Trump: Crippled America

Reader Submission: Jake Currie

Donald Trump: Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again - "Pride and Prejudice"

Donald Trump: Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

Reader Submission: Tyler Snodgrass

Donald Trump: The Art of The Deal - "The Biggest Loser"

Donald Trump: The Art of The Deal

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals - "Lincoln: America's First Goth President"

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals - "Frienemies in High Places"

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals

Reader Submission: Django Haskins

Erik Larson: In The Garden Of Beasts - "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Nazi-Sympathizing Daughter"

Erik Larson: In The Garden Of Beasts

Erik Larson: The Devil in The White City, I went to the 1893 world's fair and all I got was brutally murdered

Erik Larson: The Devil in The White City

Reader Submission: Django Haskins

"The Blitz Made Churchill Cry But Made Everyone Else in London Horny"

Erik Larson: The Splendid and the Vile

Florence Williams: Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Friedrich Nietzsche thus spoke zarathustra funny better book title thus spoke syphillis

Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Reader Submission by Kyle Maddock

Gandhi: an Autobiography - "The 35-Year Diet"

Gandhi: an Autobiography

Reader Submission: Abbi Crutchfield

Gary Paulsen woodsong cool runnings, better book title

Gary Paulsen: Woodsong

George Kimball and John Schulian: At The Fights

George Kimball and John Schulian: At The Fights

George W. Bush: Decision Points - "My Bad"

George W. Bush: Decision Points

Glenn Beck: Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth, and Treasure - "$32 Million Was Not Enough To Stop The Socialists. Please Send More."

Glenn Beck: Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth, and Treasure

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Gregg Braden: Fractal Time

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records

Submitted by Brian Boone

H.W. Brands: A Traitor To His Class - "Catching Polio As An Adult Doesn't Make You Any Less Horny"

H.W. Brands: A Traitor To His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel: What to Expect When You’re Expecting - "There Will Be Blood"

Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel: What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Reader Submission: Michael Molina

Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk - "How To Train Your Depression"

Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk

Reader Submission: Elihu Dietz

henry david thoreau, walden, funny, nonfiction, prep school

Henry David Thoreau: Walden or Life in the Woods

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Hard Choices - "656-Page Talking Point"

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Hard Choices

Submitted by Shira Danan.

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States - "White People Ruin Everything"

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States

Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 - "Drugs Make Politics Tolerable"

Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72

Reader Submission: Adam Vincentz and Norman Urban Boyer

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason - "I Even Confused Myself"

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason

Irma S. Rombauer: Joy of Cooking - "1,001 Reasons It Sucks To Be Vegan"

Irma S. Rombauer: Joy of Cooking

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J.D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

James Gleick: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - "Too Many Books So Here's A 594-Page Book"

James Gleick: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel - "a history of the domestication of agriculture plus a few other random things"

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel

Reader Submission: Raymond Drainville

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel - "I Fucked The Western Hemisphere, And All I Got Was This Stupid Syphilis (Oh, and Potatoes)"

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel

Reader Submission: Dennis Tang

funny alternate title for guns germs and steel, better book title I read this book but it was a really long time ago

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jeff Ryan: Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America - "This Is Why You’re Fat"

Jeff Ryan: Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee: Inherit the Wind - "God Hates Facts"

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee: Inherit the Wind

Reader Submission: Tyler Snodgrass

Jim Holt: Why Does The World Exist? - "There is definitely a God, wait, no there's not, wait yes there is..."

Jim Holt: Why Does The World Exist?

Joan Didion: The White Album - "Hollywood In The 60s Did Not Make Me Sane"

Joan Didion: The White Album

Joe Biden: Promises to Keep - "This is the Longest I’ve Ever Gone Without Swearing"

Joe Biden: Promises to Keep

Reader Submission: Ken Schultz

John Bartlett: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations - "A Great Read For People Who Don't Like Reading"

John Bartlett: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

John McManners: The Oxford History of Christianity - "Grumpy Old Men" funny better book titles

John McManners: The Oxford History of Christianity

Reader Submission by Zachary Smith

Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air - "Cold Mountain"

Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air

Reader Submission: Brian Boone

Kambri Crews: Burn Down The Ground - "My Dad Is The Nicest Attempted Murderer I Know"

Kambri Crews: Burn Down The Ground

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto - "Mo Money Mo Problems"

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto

Reader Submission: Neil Huber

Keith Richards: Life - "The Zombie Survival Guide"

Keith Richards: Life

Reader Submission: Jim VanBlaricum

Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller) - "Chevy Chase Was A Jerk" better book titles funny

Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

Machiavelli: The Prince - "Make Italy Great Again"

Machiavelli: The Prince

Reader Submission: Ken Schultz

Macolm Gladwell blink book renamed Everyone is racist but don't think about it

Malcolm Gladwell: Blink

Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - "Goodbye to All That"

Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Reader Submission: Abbi Crutchfield

Marquis de Sade: 120 Days of Sodom - "Everyone Poops (On Each Other)"

Marquis de Sade: 120 Days of Sodom

Reader Submission: @jesseinretro

Mary Roach: Gulp - "The Origin of Feces"

Mary Roach: Gulp

Mary Roach: Stiff - "Donate Your Body To Science"

Mary Roach: Stiff

Submitted by Paul Hamilton

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - "Bitches Be Trippin' (and it's mostly men's fault)"

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus - "This Paper Is Due in One Hour!"

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster’s Rhyming Dictionary - "A Poetry Slam Companion"

Merriam-Webster’s Rhyming Dictionary

Michael Lewis: The Big Short - "An Extremely Explanation Of The 2008 Crisis That You Still Won't Fully Understand"

Michael Lewis: The Big Short

Submitted by Eli Lebowicz

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma - "Everything is Corn"

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Reader Submission: Paige K

Michel Foucault: The Archaeology of Knowledge - "Know Your Meme"

Michel Foucault: The Archaeology of Knowledge

Reader Submission: @Snoddy

Noam Chomsky: Failed States - "Shit's Fucked"

Noam Chomsky: Failed States

Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival - "Calm The Fuck Down, America"

Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival

Reader Submission: AHigherLevel

Norman Davies: Europe: A History - "After Six Months, I'm Still On Page 63"

Norman Davies: Europe: A History

Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible - "Keeping Cardiologists in Business"

Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible

Reader Submission: Sherri Eldin

Piers Paul Read: Alive - "The Hunger Games"

Piers Paul Read: Alive

Reader Submission: Eve Penzer

Plato Symposium better book title, funny retitle says Horny Drunk Guys Invent Philosophy

Plato: Symposium

Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates - "Athens Kills Its Best Unemployed Wise-Ass"

Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

President Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope - "It Was Cute When I Thought The System Still Worked"

President Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope

Reader Submission: Ken Schultz

Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - "Though We Die, Yet Shall Our Cancerous Genitals Live On"

Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rhonda Byrne: The Power

Rhonda Byrne: The Power

Rhonda Byrne: The Secret

Rhonda Byrne: The Secret

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion - "Richard Dawkins Cites His Other Writings"

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion

Richard Holmes: The Age of Wonder - "Amateur Scientists Who Like To Huff Gas"

Richard Holmes: The Age of Wonder

Reader Submission: Michelle Legro

Richard Lloyd Parry: People Who Eat Darkness - "A Great Way To Prove You’re Not Crazy Is To Show The Cops Your Frozen Dead Dog For No Reason"

Richard Lloyd Parry: People Who Eat Darkness

Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker - "After Reading This Book, You Can Curse Robert Moses Instead Of Jesus While Stuck In NYC Traffic"

Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker

Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power - "The Elements Of Guile" better book titles

Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power - "Margin Notes Are Distracting"

Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power

Reader Submission by Neil Block.

Roland Barthes Better book title, love actually funny fake cover

Roland Barthes: A Lover’s Discourse

Roland Barthes: The Pleasure of the Text - "Reading makes me cum"

Roland Barthes: The Pleasure of the Text

Reader Submission: Sara Roan

Roland H. Bainton: Here I Stand, A Life of Martin Luther - "Nailed It!"

Roland H. Bainton: Here I Stand, A Life of Martin Luther

Reader Submission: Brian Boone

Sarah Palin: Going Rogue - "Derp Derpa Derp"

Sarah Palin: Going Rogue

Reader Submission: Dylan Jonasse

Sarah Palin: Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas - "All I Want For Christmas Is Attention"

Sarah Palin: Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas

Reader Submission: Ken Schultz

Sigmund Freud: On Dreams

Sigmund Freud: On Dreams

Simon winchester the professor and the madman funny retitle better book title oxford writer kills a guy then cuts off his own penis

Simon Winchester: The Professor and The Madman

A funny better book title for 7 habits of highly effective people joke, I'm only reading this so my friends stop telling me to read it

Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Steve Coll: Ghost Wars - "No Ghost Fights, Just A Bunch Of Stories About The U.S. Funding The Taliban For Years"

Steve Coll: Ghost Wars

Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics - "Everyone's A Lying, Cheating Dirtbag"

Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics

Strunk and White: The Elements of Style - "Correct Your Friends Like a Dick"

Strunk and White: The Elements of Style

Reader Submission: Mike Lacher

Strunk And White: The Elements of Style - "You're Doing It Wrong"

Strunk And White: The Elements of Style

Submitted by Brian Boone

The Holy Bible - "We Need To Talk About Heaven"

The Holy Bible

Reader Submission: Brian Boone

The Holy Bible - "10 Simple Rules For Worshipping My Teenage Son"

The Holy Bible

Reader Submission: Tyler Snodgrass

The Holy Bible - "Sh*t My Dad Says"

The Holy Bible

Reader Submission: Django Haskins

The Mueller Report - "13 Reasons Why Trump Should Be Impeached"

The Mueller Report

The Mueller Report - "LinkedIn Messages Ruin Everything"

The Mueller Report

Tobias Wolff: This Boy’s Life - "Don't Waste Mustard"

Tobias Wolff: This Boy’s Life

Tom Bissel: Magic Hours - "Most Writing Sucks"

Tom Bissel: Magic Hours

Tom Bissel: Magic Hours – “Most Writing Sucks”

Viktor Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning - "How About You Cheer The Fuck Up? I Was In A Concentration Camp And Still Managed To Find The Silver Lining" better book titles

Viktor Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning

Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - "A Really Long Episode Of Law And Order"

Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs - "Family Matters (less than computers to this man)"

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

Reader Submission: Colby Day

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs - "Acidhead Phone Hackers Design Usable Computers"

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs - "Computers Might Have Taken Off Sooner Had Steve Jobs Taken A Shower"

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - "Better Than The History Channel At Helping Me Nap"

William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens - "Bill Bryson For People Who Don't Like Human Beings"

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens - "Life Was Better Before Farming"

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens