What book(s) would you have given a different title?

I have often read books where I don't connect the title to the book. I wonder after reading the book if I "got" it. Has that happened to you? What book?

One example is a book my sons read 30 years ago, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. We discussed at that time that the story indeed did have an ending; not like the theme song----I will be singing that song all day!

Not really the title but the description. Someone once recommended Atlas Shrugged to me because it was about railroads - I think it even had a stylised picture of a train on the front cover. Well, I suppose you could say it is about railroads in a way, but it should have a subtitle such as "Turgid Political Ideology" to warn the unwary.

>3 John5918:. Lol.

>3 John5918: I have that book on my TBR pile, for about the last 10 years. I may never get to it!

Of Human Bondage which has disappointed so many S&M seekers, and no I was not one of them!

>3 John5918: 🤣

The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield. Bromfield was wayyyyyy out there--and there is no mention of any tree in the book. However, upon doing research several years ago, some critics have related it to a Bible verse, but I see absolutely no connection.

Statistical Models in Engineering should have been titled “An Insanely Useful Guide to the World of Statistical Distributions”. I think it is the best book on statistical distributions I have ever read.

>6 scunliffe: Good one!

In 1968 Robert Conquest's book The Great Terror was criticized for overstating the extent of Stalin's purges. When a revised edition was planned for 1990, Conquest's friend Kingsley Amis suggested it should be titled "I told you so, you fucking fools!". Sadly, it wasn't.