Things With Particularly Good Titles

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This Sporting Life
1.  This Sporting Life by David Storey
The list author says:
  "A title filled with pathos."
£6.39   Used & New from: £2.57
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Tender Taxes: Translations from Rainer Maria Rilke
2.  Tender Taxes: Translations from Rainer Maria Rilke by Jo Shapcott
The list author says:
  "Versions of Rilke's rose poems, a chorus of speaking vaginas."
£8.09   Used & New from: £0.02

Fever To Tell
3.  Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The list author says:
  "Lead singer Karen O is also the second-best named rock star, close behind Shivaree's Ambrosia Parsley."
£5.77   Used & New from: £0.66
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles
4.  Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles by Derrida
The list author says:
  "Styles spur us on to new interpretations."
£17.58   Used & New from: £4.97

Pills to Purge Melancholy
5.  Pills to Purge Melancholy by The City Waits
The list author says:
  "Songs collected by Thomas D'Urfrey, take two of these text pills before bed and in the morning go on living."
£13.24   Used & New from: £3.46
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Debbie: An Epic
6.  Debbie: An Epic by Lisa Robertson
The list author says:
  "Wait until the Nurses of Perfidy arrive! Just when you thought you were safe from Virgil."
Used & New from: £4.63

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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Continuum Impacts No. 21)
7.  A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Continuum Impacts No. 21) by Gilles Deleuze
The list author says:
  "Is it really 25 years since this appeared in France? It seems still to be the essential modern read."
£13.26   Used & New from: £8.20
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
The list author says:
  "A wake, a funferal, awake, a bow wave."
£9.09   Used & New from: £2.42
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

The Man without Qualities
9.  The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
The list author says:
  "The man without qualities had trouble compiling his c.v."
Used & New from: £9.70
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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Claire's Knee [DVD]
10.  Claire's Knee [DVD] DVD ~ Jean-Claude Brialy
The list author says:
  "Rohmer's films seem so effortless and so humane. I never tire of them."
Used & New from: £17.94
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Laughable Loves
11.  Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
The list author says:
  "Here's to all our laughable loves!"
£6.39   Used & New from: £2.86
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

"Much Ado About Nothing" (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series)
12.  "Much Ado About Nothing" (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare
The list author says:
  "You are a very nothing! One of Shakespeare's touch-words, like Stuff and Eye. Nothing shall come of it."
Used & New from: £0.01
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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The Europe of Trusts
13.  The Europe of Trusts by Susan Howe
The list author says:
  "I love Susan Howe's poetry and this is maybe the best place to start... soon you'll be - a ballad / lost in a ballad"
£11.69   Used & New from: £7.59

The Ticklish Subject: Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Wo es war)
14.  The Ticklish Subject: Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Wo es war) by Slavoj Zizek
The list author says:
  "Subject: object: atchoo!"
£15.00   Used & New from: £5.50
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Wakefulness: Poems
15.  Wakefulness: Poems by John Ashbery
The list author says:
  "Ashbery is good at titles, see also Houseboat Days. Usually a one-word title for a poetry collection signals bad news but here the news is very good."
Used & New from: £11.87

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Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics)
16.  Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) by Walt Whitman
The list author says:
  "An American conception of the book: Leaves Of Grass"
Used & New from: £0.01
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Revolution of Everyday Life
17.  Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
The list author says:
  "What other kind of revolution is worthwhile?"
£9.60   Used & New from: £6.30
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Criterion Coll: Discreet Charm & Proposito [DVD] [1972] [US Import] [NTSC]
18.  Criterion Coll: Discreet Charm & Proposito [DVD] [1972] [US Import] [NTSC] DVD ~ Fernando Rey
The list author says:
  "Few films have interesting titles, but Bunuel's do. See also The Phantom of Liberty"
Used & New from: £28.86
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (L'Amour des Trois Oranges) [DVD]
19.  Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (L'Amour des Trois Oranges) [DVD] DVD ~ Gabriel Bacquier
The list author says:
  "Operas also seem uninspired title-wise, but this is a great one. The production on this DVD is also a "must"."
£24.99   Used & New from: £19.94

Lifting Belly
20.  Lifting Belly by Gertrude Stein
The list author says:
  "Good title for a love poem. But buy it in a bigger Stein volume for better value, I recommend the Library of America editions."
Used & New from: £17.94
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Dandelion Days
21.  Dandelion Days by Henry Williamson
The list author says:
  "Part of the Flax of Dream quartet. This Faber edition has a bright yellow cover."
Used & New from: £1.40

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