"Lesserbooks," A Twitter string for the literary set, has seen tens of thousands of new entries between May 20 and 21. The idea: Choose a classic book title, then alter it slightly to downgrade it to non-masterpiece status.
Lesserbooks, which uses the catch phrase "Names of books that didn't quite make the shelves," has spawned suggestions including:
Of Mice Eat, Pray, Sleep The Manager of the Rings The Crepes of Wrath Tale of One City One Hundred Minutes of Solitude The DeVito Code Zen and the Art of Unicycle Maintenance
To join the frenzy, tweet your title and include the hashtag #lesserbooks.
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