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# Titles that Need a Book - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/titles-that-need-a-book/
- Published: 2010-07-17T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-18T17:31:13.000Z
- Description: Over the past few months, I have been incredibly grateful for the incredible feedback and support in my hour of need: coming up with a title for my yet unfinished book. It’s an enormous challenge to name a book (though […]
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson

Over the past few months, I have been incredibly grateful for the incredible feedback and support in my hour of need: coming up with a title for my yet unfinished book.

It’s an enormous challenge to name a book (though not as large a challenge, I’m finding, as writing it). But some combinations of words are so good, so potent and insightful, that they simply *need* a book to go with them. Purpose-driven titling doesn’t wait for the book to be written. The book is the title’s completion, not the other way around.

Exhibit A: Austin Farrer’s *Love Almighty and Ills Unlimited.* That is a deeply poetic title. It’s the sort of title that makes significant demands on its author (and the sort of title, I think, only a great author could come up with). If there wasn’t already a book with that title, I would feel a sense of obligation to write one, regardless of whether anyone read it. That title *needs* a book to be complete.

I suspect there are other titles that fall into this category. I’m curious to hear your suggestions: what titles can we come up with that don’t currently have books, but should? (If he plays, [I expect great things from Jim](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com).) Use Amazon as the standard reference. For our purposes, if it’s not on Amazon, it doesn’t exist.

Note also that it need not be theological titles, or even non-fiction.