Someone challenged people to ruin a book by adding a word, and they did exactly that – 27 trashed titles

Poke Reporter. Updated May 7th, 2026

The creative lot over on Threads have been trying their hand at a literary challenge, and we think they’ve really risen to it.

Their task has been to ‘ruin’ a book by adding a word, but we can’t honestly say they all ended up worse than the original. Some sound like something we’d definitely want to read.

Maybe not this one –

These were our favourites, but we highly recomment getting over to Threads and checking them out for yourself.

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