Southern Slothic fiction titles

March 10, 2024 12:57 PM

I am creating book covers for the imaginary fiction genre of Southern Slothic. (Example 1, Example 2). I need some titles for these novels that are as excellent as the artwork. So far the best one I have is The Heart Is a Slowly Hunter. The titles can refer to other books like that or can just be apt sloth puns.
posted by mermaidcafe to Media & Arts (31 answers total)

If you haven’t done Sloth On A Hot Tin Roof I don’t know why you’re even trying.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 1:04 PM on March 10, 2024 [2 favorites]

Cover 2:
A Good Span Is Hard To Find
posted by phunniemee at 1:05 PM on March 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

I would also really enjoy As I Lay, just drop the dying.
posted by phunniemee at 1:08 PM on March 10, 2024 [9 favorites]

The Sloth and the Furry?

Child of Sloth?
posted by synecdoche at 1:10 PM on March 10, 2024 [2 favorites]

Mid-Nap In the Garden of Good and Evil
posted by phunniemee at 1:10 PM on March 10, 2024 [10 favorites]

Yawn With The Wind
posted by mochapickle at 1:11 PM on March 10, 2024 [11 favorites]

Look Homeward, Algae

Because the fur, there’s algae in it.
posted by mochapickle at 1:14 PM on March 10, 2024 [3 favorites]

The Latter Day Sloths of New Orleans
posted by mightshould at 1:15 PM on March 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

No wait wait I think As I Lay Lying is better
posted by phunniemee at 1:32 PM on March 10, 2024 [16 favorites]

A Confederacy of Sloths.
Tired Green Tomatoes.
Sleepy Magnolias.
posted by brookeb at 1:53 PM on March 10, 2024

Deliver Ants
The Grapes of Sloth
The Slothening (or if it's horror, stick with the original title of The Awakening)
posted by Athanassiel at 1:56 PM on March 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

The Sloth in August
posted by Athanassiel at 1:57 PM on March 10, 2024

Abslothom, Abslothom (cf. Absalom, Absalom)?
Slothtree (Suttree)?
I Hate to See That Evening Sloth Go Down (..Evening Sun...)?

Some classics of Southern Gothic require no edits to the title, IMO:
Swamplandia!
In the Heart of the Dark Wood
The Little Friend
Steal Away Home
posted by adekllny at 2:16 PM on March 10, 2024

A Confedeslowly of Dunces
posted by Gratishades at 2:23 PM on March 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

The Sloth Shall Rise Again (Eventually)
posted by TimHare at 2:57 PM on March 10, 2024

Fear and Slothing in Las Vegas
posted by TheRaven at 3:00 PM on March 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

We Eventually Lived in the Castle
posted by miles per flower at 3:25 PM on March 10, 2024 [4 favorites]

Response by poster: Their Eyes Were Watching Their Eyelids
posted by mermaidcafe at 3:38 PM on March 10, 2024 [6 favorites]

Where the Red Fern Slows
posted by LionIndex at 3:40 PM on March 10, 2024 [2 favorites]

The Snores of the Furry
Everything That Rises Must Go Back to Sleep as Soon as Possible
posted by Don Pepino at 4:06 PM on March 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

The Sloth and the Furry
A Good Sloth is Slow to Find and other stories
Child of Sloth
Other Sloths, Other Rooms
The Ballad of the Sad Sloth
Tobacco Sloth
There Will be Sloths

[Also, please post a link to the complete set when you are done, if it doesn't violate anyone's privacy. I love this project.]
posted by OrangeDisk at 4:58 PM on March 10, 2024

Cold Sassy Sloth
posted by jgirl at 7:42 PM on March 10, 2024

Where the Sloth Sing. I know sloth don't sing, but neither do crawdads.
posted by JonJacky at 8:16 PM on March 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

To Creep Slowly in the General Direction of a Mockingbird
posted by theora55 at 10:10 PM on March 10, 2024 [5 favorites]

Revenge is a Dish Best Served Slow
posted by Pronoiac at 4:43 AM on March 11, 2024

The Six Deadly Sins

The Slothman Prophecies

Walk So Slowly, Lola, Walk So Slowly

The Just-Slow Stories
posted by taltalim at 7:44 AM on March 11, 2024 [1 favorite]

Slowly but Shirley
posted by Pronoiac at 4:39 PM on March 12, 2024

Mod note: [btw, something punny happened on the sidebar and Best Of blog!]
posted by taz (staff) at 4:35 AM on March 17, 2024

One hundred years of slothitude
One hundred years of “Slowly, Dude!”
posted by meijusa at 8:39 AM on March 17, 2024

Response by poster: iThank you all for your great ideas! They made me laugh.


I've only done a few book covers so far, but there will be more.


I included some Southern Slothic book covers as postcards in the site I just launched for work with images from my various silly projects.
posted by mermaidcafe at 7:29 AM on March 29, 2024 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: And you can purchase / look at a set of sloth cards here!


If these sell well, I'll post listins for the new Southern Slothics I'm working on.
posted by mermaidcafe at 5:36 PM on June 22, 2024 [1 favorite]