12 Books That Are Not About What They Sound Like They’re About: Like At All

If you guessed what these books are about from the title, you were wrong. As the great critic of our time Homer Simpson once said: "And I swore never to read again after 'To Kill a Mockingbird' gave me no useful advice on killing mockingbirds. It did teach me not to judge a man based on the color of his skin, but what good does that do me?"

1. All the King's Men

Exactly 0% of the royalty you would expect.

2. The Grapes of Wrath

Not a single angry sommelier!

3. Hard Choices

Worst. Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. Ever. No matter what I choose, I end up running for President in 2016.

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Not even remotely a history of women in jazz.

5. Under the Volcano

I might have explored the depths of one man spiraling out of control, but I DEFINITELY failed my geology mid-term.

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Do not, I repeat, do not eat robots, pulp sci-fi writers or meta-fictional explorations of the nature of authorship for breakfast or any other meal. OK. You can have robots for brunch.

7. Wicked

If you wanted an in-depth history of the New England dialect, look elsewhere.

8. Special Topics in Calamity Physics

You might envision Neil deGrasse Tyson rhapsodizing on the destructive beauty of the grand and magnificent forces of the cosmos. You’d be wrong.

9. Big Machine

Not a single robot. Not one! Huh? What’s a metaphor?

10. The Fault in Our Stars

You’d expect an earthquake on the sun and you wouldn’t get it. Huh? Who’s Shakespeare?

11. The Savage Detectives

Was I the only one imagining a PI agency run by Randy “Macho Man” Savage? Because that would be awesome.

12. Geek Love

Not at all a work of Big Bang Theory Fan Fiction.