Changed Book Titles

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

Paul Guffin

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.