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Changed Book Titles

Engage in a summer book quiz by guessing alternative titles for well-known books.

Paul Guffin

July 18, 2025

As you may have guessed, we are now in the heart of summer. It is a time for picking up a good book, sitting in front of a fan, and delving into another world. So, to aid you in your search for that “perfect” summer book, I offer this quiz. It works like this: I’ve taken the actual title of several books, and turned them into alternative titles that might have been used, but weren’t. How many can you guess correctly? Hint: no words in the real titles are used in the alternate titles.

Quiet Water Source

Crayfish Harmonizing Place

Traveler’s Momentum

Long Torturous Journey

Luna Rock

Story of a Female Domestic

Chronological Crease

Away, Speak to Peaks

Dummy

First Women’s Investigative Organization

Wretched Ones

Kindness for Arachnids

Furtive Nursery

Uplands with Strong Winds

Velour Hare

Playing with Big Chairs

Bedrock

Lower Aquaboat

Temperate Young Canine Euphoria

Insect Potentate

Forty-one Years Ago

Elderly Gent Afloat

Person of Royalty with a Person of Poverty

Hirsute Ceramics Maker with Magician’s Rock

Gloom Ticker

This is the first half of the quiz. The second half will appear next week, with the answers beginning the week after that.

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