This is my list of best fantasy (and okay, I admit it.. one science fiction) titles. Sometimes when the story is being written the perfect title falls in your lap like a magical ring of enchanted goodies. Often the opposite is true, you wrestle with the meaning of the story for months, coping with one evil demon of a title after another, and never really find anything that just pops. In my opinion all these titles have that POP both in story fit and sheer memorability.
- Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
- This one is first on my list because is so catchy it needs no explanation. I bought this book simply based on the fact that I loved the title. Granted I found the story a bit uneven, but the title is the best I've ever come across... and yes, there are Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse all over this story.
2. The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
This one made it to the top because I love dark macabre stories and the juxtaposition of comedy and death appeals to my sense of humor.
3. Arrows of the Queen, Arrows Flight, and Arrows Fall by Mercedes Lackey
This author has the best series titles of any I've come across. She picks a theme that fits her books then continues it through all the titles in the triliogy. These were her first three books and the best of a long string of really good series titles.
4. Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
5. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is a bit hit and miss with titles. This title is spot on as its catchy as well as more than a little ironic. Its enough to make me forgive the other times when his titles are a bit lazy--Lost Continent anyone?
6. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Leave it to Terry Pratchett to use a Latin title that means 'go for the throat' and turn it into something funny and ironic.
7. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
8. Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
9. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
10. Powers that Be by Anne Mccaffrey and Elizabeth Scarborough