Consulting with the American Library Association, which compiled a list of commonly used book titles, the Associated Press lets us in on what a few of them are and the issues that surround them — including the confusion that ensued when an American library patron made a request for Leap of Faith, the memoirs of Queen Noor of Jordan, and got the Danielle Steel novel of the same name instead.

Common titles for autobiographies include My Life and The Story of My Life, at least 20 books are named Trial by Fire, and dozens bear The Island as a title. Other repeats include My Sister’s Keeper, Not Guilty, Judgment Day, A Good Day to Die, and Time and Time Again, which suggests that the trend is largely isolated to genre fiction. Still, In Other Media would love to go into a bookstore, ask for a book called My Life, and be handed the autobiography of Isadora Duncan.

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