This arti­cle hits home for me because I’ve been burned more than once with books with sim­i­lar sound­ing titles only to dis­cover it’s not the book that I wanted to read. The arti­cle lists only a few of the same titles by dif­fer­ent authors but the fact is that you can­not copy­right titles (or so I’m told). In the romance genre, you see a lot of the same titles and if I felt like it, I could prob­a­bly list you ten. All this talk about pla­gia­rism lately, what about authors who use the same titles? Some of the title picks are pur­pose­ful. I know authors look for every advan­tage that they can find includ­ing being shelved next to Nora Roberts but still, have you ever been duped by a sim­i­lar title, sim­i­lar sound­ing book? Is it that dif­fi­cult to come up with an orig­i­nal title?

via New York Times