That book’s called WHAT?

Older books tend to have some details of the plot in the subtitles, instead of a blurb on the jacket flap or back cover. Therefore they can be amusingly long and unwieldy (and are often known only by the main part of the title).

• The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in An Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Orinoco; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With An Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Delivered by Pirates
• The history of little Goody Twoshoes : an account of the means by which she acquired her learning and wisdom, and, in consequence thereof, her estate
• The dark frigate; : wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados in the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates
• The seal of the White Buddha: : being the tale of a New England girl in the year 1847 sailing abroad her uncle's clipper ship to distant China, and of the mystery, adventure and great good fortune which befell her
• The merry pilgrimage : how Charlemagne went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in order to see whether Hugo of Constantinople was a handsomer man than he

(Sometimes modern authors copy this technique to add drama to their titles, such as Lloyd Alexander's 1970 novel The marvelous misadventures of Sebastian; : grand extravaganza, including a performance by the entire cast of the Gallimaufry-Theatricus.)

• The Superlative Horse
• Blubber
• Fortunately, the Milk
• The Twits
• Beverly, Right Here
• National Velvet
• Pet
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

• Because of Winn-Dixie
• Catherine, Called Birdy
• Tuck Everlasting
• Walk Two Moons
• What Hearts