Funny Book Titles

By the way, my all-time favourite book title is in the non-fiction. It's called "How To Seriously Injure Someone With This Book." lmao.

Crisis Barn is supposed to be Animal Farm, I'm pretty sure. And I think Chronicles of Narnia is more likely than the other suggested title, but I could be wrong.

I just read the description for Glutton Spiel. Definitely Hunger Games. Kids chosen from isolated post-apocalyptic communities to fight to the death... Plus the "Glutton" in the title is a food/hunger reference, plus it says "because future" and it's listed in Sci-Fi. I'm not sure where the "Spiel" part fits in though. I always thought a spiel was a rambling monologue, or some such.

Okay, I just did a search and came up with something unexpected. I think I know where "Spiel" fits in now.
Quoted from Wikipedia... "With 1,021 exhibitors from 50 nations (in 2016) SPIEL is the worldwide biggest fair for board games."
It's not about the word "spiel", it's referencing a German board game convention. I'd never heard of that, but the reference makes so much more sense now.
(Additionally, I suspect "Glutton Spiel" is also a pun on the "glockenspiel" which is a miniature xylophone. Some of these Sims jokes have so many layers...)
P.S. The third Hunger Games parody is "The Plunder Games".

Spiel is German for game or play, I thought? Something like that. But that was good work, @iamsweetmystery

From what I looked up, "spiel" means a long story or speech, usually used to persuade. A rambling sales pitch would be an example of this. Basically, rhetoric. In a way, I could see that concept being related to "playing a game" (a game of words, playing with minds/emotions, etc.) and the way language tends to evolve, I could totally see how the connection could be made in another language to play and games in general through a shift in use over time. Also, some types of games (such as PnP RPGs) make use of long stories and various forms of persuasion as a gameplay mechanic.
Sorry if I rambled a bit, myself. I've always found linguistics and etymology extremely fascinating.

Back on the subject of the books themselves, I get a lot of these references since I've read many of the RL books being parodied. I've read all 3 books in The Hunger Games, the first book of Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice), the first 3 books of Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, and many more, along with familiarity with other media being spoofed (Chronicles of Ridd-ick , The Fast and the Furious, Mass Effect, etc.) It's fun seeing and recognizing so many things I like getting some Sims attention. It's like with musicians and Weird Al. You know you've made it when you're significant enough for a "big player" like The Sims to parody your work, so congrats to all those authors, filmmakers and game devs immortalized in the Sims Parody Hall of Fame. :)