Book Titles That Start With A Number

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Book titles that start with a number. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. Enter all books where a year or date is essentially the only title. Lots of books that have made the top 200 seem like blatant spam by self published authors whose work probably wasn t good enough for a real publisher to accept.

For example 1984 by george orwell would be shelved before animal farm. When shelving a title which begins with a number not a word that is a number such as eleven it goes at the beginning of the titles for that author. The fictional pittacus lore actual james frey made a whole writing career writing books with numbers in the title but let s start at the original i am number four.

Non conforming books will be removed. Titles which begin with roman numerals vi xxix etc should be shelved between the author s. The content of the book isn t important this is about titles i think it s time to do this again.

The title must begin with a year and additional text only allowed after a colon. Three men in a boat by jerome k. Subtitles are common and thus allowed.

Great books with numbers in their titles. 4 19 avg rating 3 198 563 ratings. All votes add books to this list.

When you alphabetize your works cited list treat numbers in titles as though they were spelled out. Here are twenty of my favorite books with numbers as part of their titles. Twelve angry men by reginald rose 3.