Friday Freebie: Titles I Love

Today, you get your first Friday freebie; a less-substantial piece than I normally deliver, just for fun because it’s Friday…

I’ve often found that, similar to a beautiful cover, I judge a book based on its title. I felt that it was a bad habit, knowing that one should not judge a book by such inconsequential features. However, I’ve recently accepted that just as a novel, song, or movie is a work of art, so is its title. That’s simply a part of it. Otherwise we might simply call it Spielberg movie #6. Therefore, I wanted to create a list of titles I’ve found to be uncommonly beautiful. What do I like about these titles? Essentially, I love how they sound. They roll off the tongue. They are 5-word symphonies, give or take.

I’ve placed them in no particular order. I couldn’t even be bothered to separate them by category. Also, this is not necessarily an endorsement of the works listed. Some of them I haven’t even read/seen, but the title alone is beauty to me.

Without further ado…

1. The Sound and the Fury - novel by William Faulkner

2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - memoir by Maya Angelou

3. Tender is the Night - novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. Beasts of No Nation - movie directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga

5. I Am The Cheese - novel by Robert Cormier

6. All the Light We Cannot See - novel by Anthony Doerr

7. Gone With the Wind - novel by Margaret Mitchell

8. The Song of Achilles - novel by Madeline Miller

9. The Agony and the Ecstasy - novel by Irving Stone

10. Remember the Titans - movie directed by Boaz Yakin

11. Enter the Dragon - movie directed by Robert Clouse

12. Hot Summer Nights - movie directed by Elijah Bynum

13. No Country for Old Men - movie directed by the Coen brothers

14. Rush - movie directed by Ron Howard

15. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - novel by Mildred D. Taylor

16. The Way and the Power - book by Fredrick J. Lovret

17. A Song of Ice and Fire - novel series by George R. R. Martin

18. The Shining - novel by Stephen King

19. The Silence of the Lambs - novel by Thomas Harris

20. Braveheart - movie directed by Mel Gibson

21. “Howl” - poem by Allen Ginsberg

22. You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can - episode of the TV show Euphoria, created by Sam Levinson

23. The Mighty Rio Grande - song by This Will Destroy You

24. Champagne Supernova - song by Oasis

25. Life in Technicolor - song by Coldplay

26. Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain - song by Willie Nelson

27. Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun - song by M83

28. Keep the Wolves Away - song by Uncle Lucius

29. Into the Mystic - song by Van Morrison

30. The Dark Side of the Moon - album by Pink Floyd