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Literary Turducken: Thanksgiving Book Titles On Twitter

  First Posted: 11/23/11 05:47 PM ET   Updated: 11/23/11 05:47 PM ET

Celebrating the triple crown of holiday entrees, Doubleday Books started a Twitter hashtag for literary feasts. Rather than a chicken within a duck within a turkey, readers partaking in #LiteraryTurducken crafted clever book titles within book titles within book titles, like "Their Eyes Were Watching Mrs. Dalloway in the Dark" or "Tender is the Lord of the Chocolate Factory."

Here are a few of our favorites:

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Really? This sort of thing is why I have a love-HATE relationship with HuffPo.
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