Thirty-nine words is impressive!

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Oh, damn, I forgot to mention I had ordered The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires as well!

I admire all the analysis you put into this. I just another topic. 🤣 However, I agree with you. I like shorter titles. I am very lazy. The book I finished yesterday is called: David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College. Funny, but too long

I generally prefer shorter titles too. We're all just going to shorten it when we're talking about it anyway. Has anyone ever said, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" in conversation? I know I haven't. It's always just "Guernsey" or "That Guernsey book."

Oh I like how you broke this down. I had not thought of doing that but now I'm curious haha!

Southern Book Club Guide is an interesting title!

Interesting trend that you noticed in your titles. One recent one I noticed is that I seem to be reading a lot of titles with royalty (King, American Queen, Gypsy King, etc) even though there are no actual royals in the book. Ha!

You're right, most mystery and suspense books have super short titles. Fun way to break down this week's TTT! :D

I love your break down. I have not read many books with one word titles and I need one for a challenge I am in. I did find a lot of children's books with long titles as well.

Not including all those wordy subtitles that have become so common these days, a quick glance at my list comes up with these:

In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

So, 8-12 words seems to be the longest I usually run into.

I love your research with your 2020 books! The vast majority of my 74 so far seem to be two or three word titles. The longest is The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - 7.

This is such a cool idea for a post! I can see why there are so many three word titles. The blank blank appears a lot on my shelf too. :D I have seriously got to read The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires! Great post and happy reading!

LOOK AT THOSE STATS. Love a good analysis of reading data! I actually didn't even think about word count specifically; I went solely on character count (with syllable count in the back of my mind). But you inspired me to compare my 2020 list and none of the titles exceed 6 words, at least in fiction. Only 18/80 are three words; I'm noticing a higher concentration of 2 and 4 word titles -- of course, a lot of mine are older, too.

P.S. I automatically read your title in Kevin's voice and I was NOT displeased to see the appropriate gif accompanying it at the bottom.

I think that titles using the formula "The ___'s Wife/Daughter" are not only boring, but annoying these days. It is 2020. Women are their own people. They shouldn't be identified as being the wife or daughter of someone anymore.

That must have been a lot of work to count up all those title lengths!

This is really interesting as I found it quite hard to come up with a list of really long titles this week.

Great idea. You always find the most interesting twists to our topics.

My longest title had 72 letters (15 words). Granted, that was a non-fiction but the next one with 58 letters and 12 words was a novel.

I actually love books with long titles, they are always fun. However, I never included the "subtitle" because there are so many nowadays. For me, a title stops at the colon.

Thanks for visiting my TTT earlier.

I don't mind long titles! Some of the most interesting books I've read have weirdly long and specific titles. They're fun to me but I read mostly PNR and UF so maybe I've just grown used to it over the years. Great post!

I think I prefer the 3 word titles. This was a tough topic for me and definitely not a favorite.

Oooh, I love your twist to the post! It seems like three-word titles is your niche. I'm super curious about how long the titles I normally read are. I'd figure it'd be right around three to five words, so maybe an average of four?

I like your statistics! Long book titles are a mystery to me as I'm not sure what value they have. We all refer to the books by shortened versions of the long titles.

Interesting post!
I don't mind long titles but some of them do seem to follow the same formula at the moment which can make them hard to separate.