From You Really Haven't Been There Until You've Eaten the Food by Keith Famie, 2003.

From When We Began There Were Witchmen by Jeffrey Fadiman, 1993.

From Star-Haunted by Gordon LeClaire, 1937.

From For Sale with Corpse by J. M. Gregson, 1991.

You've heard of pet rocks, but there are also pet books.  From The First Little Pet Book by Aunt Fanny, 1867.

You can judge a book by its title: "There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men." 

Here's what it looks like when your book title is so long that the byline is a parenthetical afterthought.  It's rare to see "wasp-wacking" in a book title, too.  It's the out-of-print King Kid Was Fed Up.  King Kid Was Cross.  King Kid Was Fish-Spitting Mad.  Having To Have a Bath Was Bad Enough, Especially When You Are King, but Having To Wait Was Just Too Wasp-Wacking, Door-Slamming Much.  And Why Was He Mad?  The 5 O'Clock Tour of the Palace Was Still In the Bathroom (by Rozelle Bentheim).

Those who cannot afford to keep a pet rock may yet care for an unlimited number of "pet moments."  From Pet Moments by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow, 1877.

Great book title: Abandon Yourselves Totally to Me, by Tomislav Vlasic and Slavko Barbaric, 1985.

Is it all in your mind?  The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain by Lord Lytton, 1911.

Here's a precursor to Catcher in the Rye, from 1876.

A Rose Is Never Just a Rose in Fairytales by Mary Weiss, 2016.

Sarah McCann has said that self control is fictitious.  Here's proof: Self Control, A Novel by Mary Brunton, 1839.

As with a joke, if you have to explain the title, it's no good.  (However, we like this one all the same.)  From 1888.

Here's a spicy novel from 1873.

This book title is ready-made for any currency, though exhangers of Japanese yen, for example, might think less of it than traders of American dollars.  By Amelia Edwards, 1866.

Someone should write another book called The City of Living Soul, Discovered in a Dream.  It's been since 1887 that James E. Ellison wrote his.

The Blue: the Entered Apprentice, the Fellow Craft and the Master Mason, 1885.

You've heard that the art of living is the art of dying.  This book about longevity confirms it -- note the appendix on the pleasure of making a will.

If our eyes aren't deceiving us, this is a map of The Unknown Sea.  From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman, 1898.