Top Book Titles as Song Titles

Ten Book Titles as Songs

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Top Ten Tuesday

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten book titles that would make great song titles this week. This is such a fun topic!

Country

Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes by Dixie Cash–Every title in the Domestic Equalizer series by the sister writing duo known as Dixie Cash sounds like a title of an old-school country song. They crack me up! This one would be something like “My Give a Damn’s Busted” by Jo Dee Messina

Pop Songs

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker–This sounds like a slow love song that gets played at every wedding in a given year

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss–A slow ballad

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok–A girl power anthem

Rock

Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb–This just makes me think of “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors

When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde–I can hear an ’80s hair band singing this. In my head, it sounds something like “I’ll Never Let You Go” by Steelheart

Christmas

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore–One of those silly Christmas songs like “Leroy the Redneck Reindeer” by Joe Diffie

Gospel

I was on the phone with my mom talking about my aunt’s church while I was looking through my reviews for this post. These book titles jumped out at me as sounding like the gospel songs I grew up singing, songs like “Amazing Grace” and “I’ll Fly Away.”

This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash

The Bright Forever by Lee Martin

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

That’s my list! Have you read any of these? Do you think they belong in a different music genre? Which book titles did/would you choose? Link up every Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl!

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