[The Tyrant Lizard]

What is your favourite novel title? Not so much as what's in the book, more what title captivated you most of all.

I've always liked Feist's A Darkness at Sethanon for some reason. I just think it just sounds ominous.

Another favourite of mine is I Am Legend... a weird title I thought, but when it was uttered in the book, I got goose pimples.

[McLovin]

Deadhouse Gates is an awesome title.

Others:
The Darkness That Comes Before
The Standing Dead
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Before They Are Hanged
Shadows Linger

Basically, anything that's not "The (blank) of (blank)"...

[Obdigore]

'Lord of the Silent Kingdom'

I think that is probably my favorite title.

Also, one of my favorite books, but oh well.

[Zanth13]

mmmm let’s see cool sounding titles

"Hands of Chaos" Wies Hickman-deathgate cycle

"Brotherhood of the Wolf" Farlands 2nd runelords book,cool title, decent but not great book.

"Deadhouse Gates"
"Memories of Ice"
"Reaper's Gale" Just really cool titles, they just make the book sound cool as shit... which they were.


"Interview with a vampire" just sounded creepy....great book.


-Byaaaaaaaa!!!

[Skywalker]

I'd liked the title "A Memory of Light" when I first read of it. Do unpublished titles count?

Besides some of the titles already mentioned (and I'm staying clear of Malazan titles seeing that this be a malazan fan zone )

I liked:

The Thousandfold Thought
The Worm Ouroboros (love that name)
Winter's Heart
Crossroads of Twilight
The Lies of Locke Lamora (sucker for alliteration)

[Mentalist]

The Braided Path--just cuz it made no sense....

Also, BIG respect to the Hand of Chaos- the very first official fantasy novel that I've ever read....

[mxlm]

This Day All Gods Die

[Dolorous Menhir]

Night's Dawn

The Stars My Destination

[caladanbrood]

Fevre Dream
Icarus
I am Legend
Jennifer Government


urm... I dunno really. Bit of a weird question.

[Tamilyrn]

The Ascendancy Veil
Across the Nightingale Floor
Heir to the Shadows
The Fires of Heaven
The Lord of Chaos
The Seventh Gate
Deaths Head

[Aptorian]

I thought peter hamilton chose some pretty cool names for his nights dawn trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God

It was half the reason I picked up the books in the first place.

[polishgenius]

Agree with those. Also second The Stars my Destination. And Forever War, and Stranger in a Strange Land.

I really like the title 'Pillars of Creation'. Blushblush. Faith of the Fallen too. Never read the books though.

A Game of You, of The Sandman.
Dancers at the End of Time might be my favourite title ever, even though I couldn't get into the book.
I tend to like Clarke titles. Islands in the Sky, Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, The City and the Stars, Songs of Distant Earth. Not read half the books though...

Old titles seem to be better than new ones, though there's a pleasing poetic sense creeping back into fantasy now.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Gemmel:

Legend.

so simple, yet so apt...

[paladin]

Of the titles mentioned:
A Darkness at Sethanon(ominous)
Reaper's Gale(sounds like death at every turn)
Across the Nightingale Floor

Not mentioned:
Steph Swainston's novel titles are usually clever plays on words that works with the story, like "No Present Like Time"
To Our Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams. Makes absolutely no sense, something that Adams was great at.

[McLovin]

Another really great title is:

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (Robert Rankin?)

[Coco with marshmallows]

on the non-fiction side of things, i was a sucker for:

"If chins could kill: confessions of a B movie actor"

and

"Make love! the Bruce Campbell way"

[Pallol One Eye]

Soldier Ask Not and also The Final Encyclopedia - Gordon Dickinson's Dorsai series
The Land Leviathon - Moorcock, Title is better than than the book.
Amtrak Wars - Patrick Tilley
Fatal Revenant - Donaldson, Next on my to read pile

[paladin]

Cocoreturns;216747 said:

on the non-fiction side of things, i was a sucker for:

"If chins could kill: confessions of a B movie actor"

and

"Make love! the Bruce Campbell way"

I was definitely going to mention Make Love, but I didn't.. Just read it a few months back and it was one of the funniest things I've read and the title works well too. But I do wonder if it was ghost written.

[James Hetfield]

Personal Fave's

A Feast for Crows- Martin
Runelords- Farland
Gunslinger- King
The Darkest Road- Kay
This Day All Gods Die- Donaldson

And I second A Memory of Light

[QuickTidal]

The Book of Dead Days

Say what you will but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was a cool as hell title!

Fragile Things

non-fantasy fiction titles that I love best are:

The Time Travellers Wife
Special Topics in Calamity Physics