Thirteeen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

I personally feel the significance of the title came from an experience Jay Asher had himself or someone he knew. My reason being I haven't done much reading in my life ,but the reading i have done the books had a personal or like situation to the author. I believe authors do choose their titles for a specific reason. From some information I found in the book " Thirteen Reasons Why" Jay Asher did have a personal reasoning when he chose this title. Jay originally got his idea from visiting a museum which was an audiotour. An audiotour being , you walk around with a cassette plkayer what u saw was being explained to you. That being years before begining the book. Even more so ,a close relative attempting suicide at a similar age as the main charactor Hannah. She survived but couldn't speak about one specific reason why without bringing up something prior or after that caused her attempt. Both ideas together brought "Thirteen Reasons Why". Also in the start of this book the main charactor was originally named Anna Baker,but Jay found that other books about suicidal female charactors were also named Anna. So to steer away from that he altered the name to Hannah. When figureing out how many stories there were going to behe chose "Thirteen Reasons Why" for the last name being Baker and a bakers dozen being thirteen. And thats how it came about. At the book selling the original title was "Bakers Dozen :The Autobiography of Hannah Baker". Jay Asher had a very clever and unique idea for this novel.