Kitabkhana is playing a new game. In this one, you alter one letter of a title to get a whole new work. Some of the results:

The Bobbit
Small man with big feet tries frantically to find someone in Middle Earth who can re-attach his penis.
The Gropes of Wrath
Sexual harrassment in the Depression.
The God of Small Thongs
Arundhati Roy's haunting story of a South Indian lingerie tycoon.
The Fridges of Madison County
The history of refrigeration in Iowa.
The Sound and the Furry
The only really useful guide to healthy animals in the American Deep South

Mouse of Mirth:
Edith Wharton meets Stuart Little
The Mellow Wallpaper:
Edward Gorey meets Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Woman in Shite:
Walter Hartright has no clue how to save Laura Fairlie
Bummer:
Lesser-known Wharton novel about unwanted pregnancy
Henderson the Pain King:
Speaks for itself
Angela's Rashes:
Ditto
Girl With a Pear Earring:
Vermeer has a Magritte moment

Wrasselas -- A prince of Abyssinia seeks happiness by taking steroids and perfecting his forearm lariat from the top rope.

The Lice Age -- Pediculosis among the British upper classes

Biers Plowman -- A look at medieval burial traditions

The Carson's Tale -- a retired talk-show host counsels the Canterbury pilgrims

The Pig Sleep -- Philip Marlowe, down on the farm.

The Postman Always Pings Twice -- Lust and murder in a cybercafe.

Can you tell I really don't want to grade these research papers?

Their Eyes Were Watching Cod -- Zora Neale Hurston writes of life in a New England fishing village.

Top Ten Russian Literary Titles:

The Bronze Hoseman:
The life and career of a well-tanned
firefighter.

Dread Souls:
A travel adventure involving ganja, reggae,
and Rastafarian peasants, mon.

Grime and Punishment:
Documenting the conditions of Russiaís
dirtiest prisons

Bar and Peace:
Epic tale of a young Russian noblemanís quest
to find meaning in life at the bottom of a
bottle.

A Nero of Our Time:
A new biography of Stalin

The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Realty:
Nikolai Chernyshevskyís guide to tasteful
architectural design

Me:
Evgenii Zamyatinís autobiography

The Naked Yearn:
Passion and desire among a community of nudists

One Gay in the Life of Ivan Denisovich:
Not that there was anything *wrong* with it...

What is to be Gone?:
Answer: liberty, prosperity, and any hope for a
democratic Russia...

FWIW, the University of California/Berkeley alumni magazine has been running one page a month of this sort of thing for the last 15 or so years, under the heading "Twisted Titles." They usually have a couple of illustrations each month, which are often hilarious in their own right.

"One Gay in the Life of Ivan Denisovich:
Not that there was anything *wrong* with it..."

snork

Homage to Catatonia - Orwell discusses the advantage of unconsciousness

I really did have a student write a 5pp paper on "Not Waiving but Drowning," the Oliver Wendell Holmes verse from which Stevie Smith plagiarized.

"Far From the Sadding Crowd." Self-help book recommending that people who suffer from depression seek out non-sufferers.

A Good Man is Hard to Bind - a story about progressive young women trying to bring down their oppressive, white, male professors.

The Old Man and the Pea
Of Human Bandage
Animal Firm
Elmer Gentry
Of Mace and Men
A Day in the Wife of Ivan Denisovich

Sorry about the last one, I just couldn't resist ...

Moby Duck
The Bean's December
Farewell to Farms
On the Toad
Fright Club
Native Sod

The Fridges of Madison County may actually be of the Amana persuasion.

To Will a Mockingbird -- Coming of age story centering on the passage of a pet to a young girl after her grandmother dies.

Patch-22 -- Technical tome cataloging Microsoft's various problems with security holes.

Tar and Peace -- The simple wisdom of a village roofer.

Tao of Pop -- Coca Cola executive achieves transcendance.

One Hundred Fears of Solitude -- Gregarious South American man chronicles his paralyzing need to be the life of the party.

Done -- A megaselling science fiction novel which was not marred by additions to the canon following the death of the original writer.

Of Rice and Men -- Penetrating nihonjinron (theory of Japaneseness) commentary centering on the wet cultivation of rice and its lasting effects on the Japanese culture (don't laugh -- its been done).

Lord of the Fries -- Chronicle of the corporate history of McDonalds.

Brave NOW World -- Speculative history on what would have happened if passage of the ERA had resulted in a feminist dictatorship.

The Color of Magic -- Strikingly similar to Terry Prachett's The Colour of Magic, but much less British.

Patrick McKenzie

Silent String -- Allegory - the neglected E string in the shopworn package at the bottom of the drawer.

The Curse of Binding Energy -- Noted nuclear physicist finds everything sticking together.

The Moth of Sisyphus -- He finally gets the rock up the hill only to find out his good suit is shot to Hell.

How Children Lean -- Persuading your adult children to move out of the house.

How Children Nail -- Hand eye coordination in young children.

Oenocide -- Someone is killing the great wines of Europe.

Chronicles of Wasted Tim -- Autobiography of a drunk.

More Christianity -- An Oxford don decided apologetics are not enough, active evangelism is indicated.

Seeing Vices -- A young man's life is blighted by the razor sharp, frame by frame memory of the only porno movie he's ever seen, day and night, in super slow motion.

For Whom the Tell Bowls. A Swiss archer gives up his life's work to compete in charity bowling tournamments.

Done -- A megaselling science fiction novel which was not marred by additions to the canon following the death of the original writer.

Sorry, you must have missed the prequels.

Zone With the Wind:
Heiress/activist Scarlett O'Hara fights a Yankee plot to install wind generators in her neighborhood

The Pound and the Fury:
Scooby-doo is arrested in Mississippi for whistling at a white poodle and nearly lynched

Elmer Gentry:
A Southern preacher makes it big by buying up inner city properties which he improves and sells to rich Yuppies

Dim--Rudyard Kipling's tale of a not too bright Indian boy.

Spuds Lonigan--a boy comes of age on a potato farm.

The Mull on the Floss--a dentist offers his thoughts about good dental hygiene.

Animal Form--a handbook for those who judge pet shows.

The Vittle Prince: A book of French recipes from the viewpoint of a small boy king

Fall of the Wild: Jack London's vivid depiction of klutzy wolf packs.

Withering Heights: A tale of love, hate, hope, and desperation during a drought on the moors.