Best books ever

In perusing the New York Time's 10 Best Books of 2007 I decided to have a little fun. Here are the first five. Only the titles have been changed. I found the book descriptions ridiculous, so I left them as is. Try to imagine what the real title actually is. Then click and find out. Click on the title-links to see the real reviews.

A MAN GOES DOWN AND WAITS IN A SOCIAL SECURITY LINE
By Michael Thomas. Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $14. This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer’s life.

OUT OF THE FRYING PAN...
By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. Graywolf Press, $22. In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.

THE WILD APES IN DYMOCKS
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. A craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas.

REALITY T.V. PRESENTS RICKY GERVAIS
By Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown & Company, $23.99. Layoff notices fly in Ferris’s acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.

CHRIST, THERE'S CHARLIE! WELL, CHARLIE, MEET CHRIST!
By Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. The author of “Jesus’ Son” offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.