There are a few contenders for the longest book title ever. One is "The Really Compendium of Superlative British Place-Names" by Paul Dickson, which clocks in at 23 words. Another is "The comes request a to on paper are of clothes gear building be year may we'll it's newspaper effective curious" by MargaretKnight, which is just a string of random words. And then there's "A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gun-Shot Wounds" by John Hunter, which is a whopping 98 words long!