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12 hilariously honest alternate titles for books
We’ve all read classics by Shakespeare, Fitzgerald and Dr. Seuss, but did you ever stop and think, “there’s got to be a more accurate title for this book”? Well, one man did, and has taken it to the next level. In his book Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book Titles, Dan Wilbur has given hilariously honest alternate titles to the books he was forced to read in high school. Flip through the titles above and see if you can guess what they are before reading the list below!
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr Seuss
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Have a go for yourself! Tell us in the comments below, what book would you rename with an honest title?
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