Someone should write a guide to Jerry Lewis films that aren't Jerry Lewis vehicles.*

*Inspired by Jonathan, who said, "We gave up on watching Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River. (Imagine my shock and outrage when this movie starring Jerry Lewis turned out to be nothing but a Jerry Lewis vehicle!)"

[Jonathan later added, "Did you ever see the film version of Visit to a Small Planet? See, there's a movie starring Lewis that's not a Jerry Lewis vehicle.  Even Jerry Lewis's performances in the film are not Jerryesque."]

William Keckler suggests that someone should "write a novel about a 'haunted house' in which the one haunted is actually the house, which dimly perceives the family which inhabits it--which feels them as a sort of infestation by ghosts."

Here are some great unused book titles from Raymond Chandler's notebooks:

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"Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader."  (Source.  Thanks, Jonathan!)

"Somebody should write a book about the relationship between monotheism and monolithism."
—David DeBatto & Pete Nelson, CI: Mission Liberty (2006)

"Someone should write a book about all the different complex flavors of patronizing behavior toward patrons."
—Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

"'Someone should write a book about the dedicatees of the great poets."
—James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (2012)

"Write a novel in which a cryptozoophile kills himself at the end, unable to physically consummate his relationship to his objects of desire." —Stefan, of The Kelayah Objective

"Somebody should write a book someday about the silences in Scripture."
—Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark (2007)

"Somebody should write a book called Strangers in Our Own Land."
—Stuart Holmes Coleman, Fierce Heart: The Story of Makaha and the Soul of Hawaiian Surfing (2010)

"Apparently, eighty-one percent of Americans feel they should write a book."
—Shashi Tharoor, Bookless in Baghdad (2012)

"Write a novel in which every character dies on page one."
—William Keckler

Death of a Librarian by Moira Clunie, 2001.  Images of the pages are here.  It's marvelously lovely!

Write a novel which is composed of only the shadows of people on grass.
—William Keckler

"I know whenever I mention 'you should write a book' there will be an inevitable 'who, me?' reaction. Yes, of course you."
—ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

Write a novel purely about the nasopharyngeal colorings of desire.
—William Keckler

"I wish someone would write a good, comprehensive book of home dog medicine."
—John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

"Write a novel in which the characters are painfully aware they are in a shitty novel and try constantly to escape from the book. Follow the characters as they migrate from novel to novel, some characters pursuing others into different books. Have lovers be terribly depressed when they rediscover each other in a new book, only to learn they are young brother and sister and so can no longer consummate their love. Or worse, they discover themselves in a book in which they must fight to the death. Have villains end up being cast as heroes and heroines in different novels, and heroes and heroines end up as grungy minor characters to whom no reader would pay any serious attention. Have a character mistakenly enter a book that is 'all photographs' and be rendered invisible."
—William Keckler

Write a novel about an anteater who is terrified of ants.
—William Keckler

"Someone should write a book about what it feels like to fall in love at first sight."
—Swan Adamson, My Three Husbands (1995)

Photo by qwazymonkey.

"Someone should write a book and fill every page with the credo, Don't drop the soap."
—Terra Little, Jump (2011)