Book Titles—Trends and Formulas, Brilliance and Duh

Organization or Event

Event? Organization? Grounding a Book

"At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened." Ian McEwan

Let us search the recent winning titles of the Booker, the Pulitzer, and the New York Times Bestsellers (ranked by time on the list) on for those that start with Organization or Event. This is a less-represented category, but as you’ll see has some strong candidates.

His Bloody Project, Graeme Macrae Burnet

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

The Sport of Kings, C.E. Morgan

The Long Take, Robin Robertson

An Orchestra of Minorities, Chigozie Obioma

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak

Night Watch, Jayne Anne Phillips

Audition, Katie Kitamura

Your rabbit hole for today — Let me know in the comments below which titles resonated with you, and for the books you’ve read, which titles really supported the books themselves. Give me your all-time favorite book title based on an Event or Organization.