In Salman Rushdie’s latest book, Joseph Anton, the story of his life while hiding from the Iranian fatwa against his life, he describes a “foolish word game” of creating book Titles That Weren’t Quite Good Enough. (page 364)

Rushdie gives as examples:

Mr. Zhivago

A Farewell to Weapons

For Whom the Bell Rings

Two Days in the Life of Ivan Devisovich

Mademoiselle Bovary

The Story of the Fortsytes

The Big Gatsby

Cab Drive

Love in the Time of Influenza

Toby-Dick

Snag-22

Raspberry Finn

To which I would add:

Les Masaratis

The Makioka Brothers

The Sun Also Sets

The Decline of the East

The Cousins Karamazov

Any further suggestions from the creative folk here?

The Winter of Our Disconnect

The Old Man and the Lake

Two Gentlemen of Vermont

The Naked and the Bored

A Genteel Madness (for Nicholas Basbanes "A Gentle Madness"

Marjorie Mourningstare

The Fjord of the Dings

The Cider House Guidelines

A Prayer for Owen Goodheart

The Hotel New Jersey

Son of the Carnival

The World According to Smith

(Can you tell I like John Irving?)

The Bassoon of the Swan

Charlene's Web

Stuart Small

And for the HP fans:

Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Rock

...Room of Secrets

...Jailbird of Azkaban

...Cup of Fire

...Order of the Bird

...Halfblood Baron

...Deathly Portents

Myra Dickenbridge

(I need to be spanked real bad for that one)

The Boys In The Quartet

Gone with a breeze.

Ben Hurt

The Cloak

Agony and Joy

Bridge of the stream Kwai

30 seconds over Honshu

Oliver spin

David Silverground

A story of two cities

Some Expectations

and

Dreams of my dad.

River

The Catcher In The Field

I was going to say "The Catcher in the Oats" but that works too.

The Once and Future Duke

War and Cease-Fire

Stranger in a Strange Place

Time Enough for Like

The Cat Who Walks Through Partitions

The Caves of Aluminum