15 Ways To Create A Book Title

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1- What Your Story Is About
Examples:
-The Hunger Games
-Memoirs of a Geisha

2- Fill-In-The-Blanks
Examples:
-I Know What You Did Last Summer
-It Lives In The Basement

3- Mashups: Classics + Paranormal/Sci-Fi
Examples:
-Robin Hood And Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers
-Jane Slayre: The Literary Classics With a Blood Sucking Twist

4- Allusion
Examples:
-The Grapes of Wrath
-The Fault in Our Stars

5- Imagery
Examples:
-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
-Little House, House on Rocky Ridge

6- Contrasting Ideas
Examples:
-I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream
-Eyes Wide Shut

7- Metaphors
Examples:
-Clockwork Orange
-The Catcher in The Rye

8- Include Your Character's Name
Examples:
-The Adventures of Chuckle Berry Finn
-The Picture of Dorian Gray

9- Alliteration
Examples:
-Love's Labor's Lost
-The Wind in the Willows

10- When Your Story Takes Place
Examples:
-1984
-Midnight in the Garden of Evil

11- Name it After Your Main Character
Examples:
-Anna Karenina
-Madame Bovary

12- Quirky Titles
Examples:
-What to Say When You Talk to Yourself
-How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

13- Where Your Story Takes Place
Examples:
-Lost in Tokyo
-Death Comes to London

14- Utterances
Examples:
-Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
-I Was Told There'd be Cake

15- The One-Word Title
Examples:
-Hamlet
-Altonmemt

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