/lit/ - Literature

>>15986949
In some places is known as Arabian Nights
Both are good imo

>>15987290
Borges said that the literal mention of that single "one" (which was added for superstitious reasons probably and in OP's version it comes from Burton) is so great it suggests the infinity of its contents.

>>15986949
probably my fav
A Midsummer Night's Dream is also good tho not strictly a book

>>15987315
Whoops, Burton's is "Thousand nights and one".

>>15986949
Nine Princes in Amber

>>15987315
Well the original Arabic title is ‘Alf laylah wa laylah, which means “thousand nights and a night”, but I like a thousand and one nights better because it flows better

All of Nietzsche's titles are god tier.

>Twilight of the Idols
>Beyond Good and Evil
>The Birth of Tragedy
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"The Gay Science" is a little weird, I'm sure it sounded better back then / in German.

>>15986949
Definitely agree, OP.

Others I like: Paradise Lost, Art of War, The Divine Comedy

>>15988125
How do you even begin to write a good title? I’m currently writing a fantasy/romance (romance as in the Arthurian romance, not the love romance) novel set in an endless forest, and the best title I can come up with is either “the land above the hill” (which refers to a famous song within the story) or “beyond the endless horizon” (relating to the main characters need and desire to see the world beyond what he has seen for years)

>>15988169
The smallest amount of words that pack the strongest punch. "Beyond Good and Evil" and "The Art of War" are four words, but after reading the fourth word, you can already feel a sense of the magic contained within those texts.

Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Not the best book but holy fuck that title

>>15988212
So I should go with the second title then, at least for the whole of the series. I have other names for the names of the individual books, like “walking with wooden giants” and “cities of grass”

The Bible.
which means "the book of books."

>>15988246
No. “Bible” comes from Latin “biblio” meaning “book”, so it only means “the book” which is a retarded name.

>>15988169
>>15988242
Beyond the Endless Horizon is pretty cringe-y to me. It isn't exactly a name of something I would want to read.

>>15988334
As I’ve said, it’s a work in progress. Though it is quite frustrating that o can’t find a better title.

>>15988349
If you get it published the publishers will choose for you anyway

>>15988359
That’s such shit. Fuck that.

>>15988334
Though maybe I can change the wording of it a little bit. Either “beyond an endless horizon” or “beyond the endless horizons”. I can’t think of a better word for beyond, though I know that there has to be one. Maybe past or through? I’m not sure.

>>15988169
"Lands Beyond"
You're welcome.

>>15988254
biblio is a really rare word, its not even in my latin dictionary so i had to use google, it seems to be the greek word for book, so it can be surmised that, since the greeks got a hold of the bible much later than the hebrew was written, that the hebrew portion of the bible had a separate name. and in fact each book of the bible has its own corresponding name, the first five being unnamned i believe, simply referred to as the 1-5 books of moses (genesis exodus etc being latin names attributed much later) so the jewish name for the books of moses would be most accurate, but theres no reason to have a 'cool' name because the book was written over several thousand years and most of the new testament is fucking epistles (that itself being a latin word) so fuck you the bible has a much cooler naming tradition than you give it credit for, it is as if every people that had the book added something to it as a living tradition, the greeks in biblio, the latins in epistle and genesis, the germans contributed much to the names (rather to the detriment) because the transliteration Jesus is better spelled Iesus, which the j makes the same sound as an i in that position in german. so there really is a lot of nuance, your just a faggot

For me it's In search of lost time

>>15986949
I'm not particularly fond of SF but old-school SF titles were great.

>The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
>Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
>The Mote in God's Eye

>>15989261
Your post reminds me that "I Married a Teenage Werewolf" is one of my favorite titles of anything along with "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" and "The Beast With a Million Eyes"

>>15987315
borges was a genius

Kings of Creation

>>15988169
How about "I, Wander"?

>>15988037
The thousand "and one" is probably in line with Galland's Mille et une nuits. Both would be okay but Burton was being literal.

>>15986949
I like "We, the drowned"

>>15988125
>I'm sure it sounded better back then / in German.
Its pure music, any of them. Der wille zur macht > will to power (but there is should be 'might' tho).

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Death On An Installment Plan

>>15988169
"Green ocean`s starlight"

>>15989261
I agree many sci-fi books have great titles. Usually a very long title only works with a short story, but sci-fi books often manage to get away with chatty titles, for some reason. Maybe it's because sci-fi doesn't take itself too seriously (or at least, pretends it doesn't.)

Some other sci-fi titles I like:

>The Stars My Destination

>To Your Scattered Bodies Go
(A quotation from a Donne sonnet, IIRC)

>I, Robot

Philip K Dick wrote some great titles:

>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

>A Scanner Darkly

>The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike

and the best title ever:

>Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

He also wrote some really bad ones.

>The Zap Gun
is pretty awful.

Also
>Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
is useless. "Blade Runner" is 1000x better.

Notice how
>We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
just about works as a title for a short story, but it would be ridiculous for a blockbuster action film. "Total Recall" is perfect.

>>15986949
>there's no literature named (you) yet
I've been picking my songs to give a try on youtube based on if it has an interesting title and simply you generally does the best work

>>15988125
>The Gay Science
The Joyful Wisdom

>>15988169
>beyond the endless horizon
Not a fan. For someone living in an endless forest to have even seen the horizon is no small task. Have you ever been to a primeval forest? The farthest you can see is a few hundred meters.

>>15988231
>Not the best book
Have you ever been in love?

>>15988169
I was going to suggest "horizons end" but it seems to be some lame fucking band when I googled it

>>15991315
>Berlin Alexanderplatz
Just sounds like the metro station to me.

>>15986949

>>15991668
kek

>>15991668

>>15991692

>>15988169
Your main problem is that trees and forests are universally seen as Good Things. Everyone likes trees. But you want a title about going *beyond* the trees, which depicts the trees as something restrictive, something slightly negative. That's a tricky feeling to nail.

"Beyond the Endless Horizon" is pretty bad. "The Land Above The Hill" is slightly better, but sounds like a story for young children, which is probably not what you're aiming for. Shortening it to "Above The Hill" is an improvement.

Some other possibilities:

>Leaf-Light

>Where The Rustling Ocean Ends

>Blue Between The Branches

>What The Last Beech Sees
(Beech-trees typically grow on the edge of woodland.)

>A Sliver Of Sky

>>15986949
You got it right. Some others:
Great Expectations
De rerum natura
Far from the Madding Crowd, Pale Fire (taken from Gray and Shakespeare respectively)

Darkness at noon

The Island of Dr Death and Other Stories and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe

The World as Will and Wallpaper - RA Laffertry

>>15986949
Heart of a Dog
Lonesome Dove
All Quiet on the Western Front
Pale Fire
Tropic of Cancer
Atlas Shrugged
The Sun Also Rises
The Sound and the Fury

>>15986949
Sounds ugly in English
>>15987290
Actually better for English, but it's way more beautiful in Spanish: Las mil y una noches

>>15992073
I will never not hate the CH sound in Spanish, it's so grating to the ear. The title sounds like shit, as if someone accidentally dropped a silver platter to the stone floor in the dead of the night. The French title is far superior.
t. Native SP speaker

I always liked Either/Or

>>15992507
me too. its really simple and also impactful and brings a lot of core conundrums to mind. not to mention aesthetically the / makes it look unique.