Book Titles Phrased as Questions
October 28, 2005 5:41 AM   Subscribe

I'm looking for book titles that are phrased as questions. Ex: Are you my mother?
posted by moooshy to Media & Arts (45 answers total)
 
Who Killed Cock Robin?
posted by allen.spaulding at 5:45 AM on October 28, 2005


It Happened in Boston?
posted by Hlewagast at 5:46 AM on October 28, 2005


What's Happening to Me?
posted by xo at 5:51 AM on October 28, 2005


What is the name of this book?
by Raymond Smullyan
posted by thatwhichfalls at 5:54 AM on October 28, 2005


Guess What? by Mem Fox
posted by I Love Tacos at 5:56 AM on October 28, 2005


What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
posted by yankeefog at 6:05 AM on October 28, 2005


You might also consider book versions of movies with a question-title, such as "What The Bleep Do We Know!?" book version.
posted by vanoakenfold at 6:05 AM on October 28, 2005


Shameless (kind of) self-link (it's my Dad's book):
"Mom, Can I Play Football?"

mathowie, if this is inappropriate, please delete.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 6:06 AM on October 28, 2005


Also, an Amazon search for "Am I Normal" turns up several books with that question (or similar questions) for titles.
posted by yankeefog at 6:06 AM on October 28, 2005


Best answer: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that children's books might be an especially rich territory.

Also, have you considered doing title searches at Worldcat/Amazon/Powell's/whatnot? Using the 5 w's and two h's, and then just skimming the results, would probably return thousands of things.
posted by box at 6:08 AM on October 28, 2005


Who Killed the Robins Family? was a mystery bestseller when I was growing up, complete with a cash-prize contest for readers to solve the case... I never read it, so I dunno whodunnit.
posted by skyboy at 6:10 AM on October 28, 2005


"Why Do Buses Come in Threes?" (can't get amazon link to work)
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 6:11 AM on October 28, 2005


Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
posted by Scoo at 6:12 AM on October 28, 2005


Best answer: If you go to Amazon and type in the first word of a question (why, who, where, how, etc), you'll get gadzillions of titles of books that are phrased as questions.

The first one that sprang to my mind was Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret.
posted by iconomy at 6:15 AM on October 28, 2005


Some Victorian examples:

Wilkie Collins' Miss or Mrs.?

Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's What Will He Do With It?
posted by thomas j wise at 6:15 AM on October 28, 2005


What is to be Done?
posted by misteraitch at 6:22 AM on October 28, 2005


Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:27 AM on October 28, 2005


Dr Seuss' "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?"
posted by coach_mcguirk at 6:29 AM on October 28, 2005


Where's Waldo?
posted by bondcliff at 6:31 AM on October 28, 2005


Who Moved My Cheese?
posted by iconomy at 6:40 AM on October 28, 2005


Am I A Hindu?
posted by heeeraldo at 6:47 AM on October 28, 2005


the first book i ever read...
who is root beer?
posted by nadawi at 6:54 AM on October 28, 2005


The first one that sprang to my mind, after the Smullyan books (thatwhichfalls mentions above) is:

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
posted by vacapinta at 6:55 AM on October 28, 2005




What Do People Do All Day?
posted by gnomeloaf at 7:11 AM on October 28, 2005


Quo Vadis?
posted by sagwalla at 7:15 AM on October 28, 2005


Best answer: Who
What
When
Where
How
Why
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:19 AM on October 28, 2005




The Feldmen Imponderables books; "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?", "Do Penguins Have Knees?", et al.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 8:18 AM on October 28, 2005


Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? and Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? are two lesser known works by the good Doctor.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:44 AM on October 28, 2005


Margaret Forster, Have The Men Had Enough? -- a brilliantly cruel title which sums up the whole novel in a few words.

Arthur Ransome, Great Northern? -- a favourite novel of my childhood.
posted by verstegan at 9:07 AM on October 28, 2005


What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson

Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
posted by sarahnade at 9:07 AM on October 28, 2005


Who will run the frog hospital?
posted by escabeche at 9:10 AM on October 28, 2005


What color is your parachute?
posted by beagle at 9:20 AM on October 28, 2005


Is your mamma a llama?
posted by jazon at 9:32 AM on October 28, 2005


A children's book, but really cute:

Excuse me, are you a witch?
posted by sapienza at 9:44 AM on October 28, 2005


Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
posted by kirkaracha at 9:52 AM on October 28, 2005




Who has seen the wind?

N or M?
posted by tangerine at 10:19 AM on October 28, 2005


also, Where do you stop?
posted by tangerine at 10:22 AM on October 28, 2005


Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan.
posted by GaelFC at 11:39 AM on October 28, 2005


What Was She Thinking? - Zoe Heller
posted by painquale at 12:17 PM on October 28, 2005


written by a friend, and adorable: Are You My Husband?
posted by amberglow at 12:20 PM on October 28, 2005


In the spirit of the season: Which Witch Is Which?
posted by rob511 at 9:03 PM on October 28, 2005


Are You Two... Together?, the gay-travel book from a previous generation, if not lifetime.
posted by joeclark at 1:02 PM on October 29, 2005


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