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Nothing complicated about today’s post. I recently featured a book with a wonderful title: Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido. I got to thinking about what makes a great title, and of course which books have them. So I’m making a list of mine, and inviting in your ideas. As with so many lists, this one would be quite different a year ago or a year from now: many of these books are ones which have recently been featured, mentioned or discussed on the blog or in the comments. Actually, it would probably be a different list next week.They are not in order, just a collection of ones I like. I don’t think you can love the title of a book if you don’t love the book (YMMV) but today we are looking at the titles, with only a glance at the content…. 1 Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford is all over the blog, and I wrote about it for the Guardian, and so familiar that it’s easy to forget what a clever title it is (like the Capote title at no. 8) 2 For Esme with Love and…

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