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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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Interesting list. And you even gave the songs a genre. Great.
My TTT.
It was fun to think about what the songs would sound like.
That was the best part of it. Happy Reading.
Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes by Dixie Cash — awesome pick!
Right? Even the pseudonym sounds like the name of a country group!
I love your list! Ghost Riders is my favorite pick – I totally thought of The Doors, too!
I’ve been humming Riders on the Storm on and off for days now!
This was such a good list and I love the variety. Here is my post-https://paigesofbook.blogspot.com/2020/11/top-ten-tuesday-books-that-would-make.html.
Thanks!
Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes makes me think Miranda Lambert. I could imagine her singing that song.
You’re right, Miranda would own that song!
Great list! Though now I’m going to have to go look up other Dixie Cash books to see their titles. 😉
I think you’ll laugh!
OMG, the titles are great! 😀
Ha ha. Country songs have such great titles sometimes!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Country song titles definitely get points for creativity!
I love Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes! So funny.
And the entire series has titles that are just as funny!
I love how you broke it down into different genres!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/top-ten-tuesday-289/
Thanks!
You And My Shoes definitely sounds like a country song! Although I thought Elton John too when I saw it 🙂
Now that you mention it, I can see Elton tackling it too! Throwing a sequin-covered shoe up on his piano! 😀