Name some near-miss titles...

[First Speaker]

...such as:

Moby-Richard

The Adequate Gatsby

The Empire Farts Around

Lieutenant-Commander Kangaroo

Man and Batman

[Harker]

1. "The French Corporal's Woman."

"Modest Expectations."

[Harker]

2. "One of the Last of the Mohicans."

"The Grapes of Annoyance."

I spent most of my working life in bookshops.

Thanks!

[Harker]

3. "The Penultimate Tycoon."

"The Middle Aged Man and the Sea."

[marble falls]

4. The War to End All Wars.

[Aristus]

5. "Crime And More Crime".

n/t

[jpak]

6. The Wizard of Australia

[Harker]

7. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Wombats?"

"Pete Dunne's Potentially Useful Field Guide Companion."

[mercuryblues]

8. The federal employee always rings twice

[Harker]

9. "Catch-42."

"The Moon and Tuppence."

[Harker]

10. "From Here to a Very Long Time from Now."

"Some Came Trotting."

[Xavier Breath]

11. The State Next Door According to Garp

[tblue37]

12. "Misplaced World"; "The Day the Earth Slowed Down a Bit."

[thucythucy]

13. For Whom the Bell Goes Ting a ling a ling.

A Pre-funeral Get-together for my Dead Friend Finnegan.

All's Well That Winds Up Okay.

A Disagreement Between Planets.

[struggle4progress]

14. One hundred minutes of solitude

The old man and the puddle

A Connecticut Yankee in Connecticut

The raisins of wrath

Gulliver's retirement

[miyazaki]

15. The Amityville Whore

[LakeArenal]

18. Funny

[Leith]

16. An irresistible topic

Stepped out for a Bit with the Wind

A Man for Any Time Except Winter

A Little Late Afternoon Music

War of the Petunias

The Lord of the Bracelets

Princess Fiance

Quirky Max

The Man Who Shot the Window Valance

[femmedem]

19. The Man Who Shot the Window Valance!

[femmedem]

17. Rosemary's Hamster

Waving Goodbye to Private Ryan

[LakeArenal]

20. When Mars Invites Us to Dinner

Downtown Alley

Here With the Breeze

The Young Man and the Sneeze

The Lizard of DOS

[littlemissmartypants]

21. The Holy Menu

[littlemissmartypants]

22. 50 Shades of Beige

[femmedem]

23. Singing in the drizzle

Star Chores.
And that summer classic: Jowls

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. "Pyrite Finger"

No, Mr Bond, I expect you to be a bit ill.

[NotASurfer]

25. The Masque of the Red Contact Dermatitis

The Labradoodle of the Baskervilles

The Emperor has no Socks

Fear and Loathing in Mayberry

[Harker]

26. "The Dough Also Rises."

"A Many-Tentacled Thing."