diff --git a/book/src/gossip.md b/book/src/gossip.md
index 03a8394673..8def4a3051 100644
--- a/book/src/gossip.md
+++ b/book/src/gossip.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# The Gossip Service
+# Gossip Service
 
 The Gossip Service acts as a gateway to nodes in the control plane. Fullnodes
 use the service to ensure information is available to all other nodes in a cluster.
diff --git a/book/src/runtime.md b/book/src/runtime.md
index 6b9ce1fd22..9a749af07c 100644
--- a/book/src/runtime.md
+++ b/book/src/runtime.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Runtime
+# The Runtime
 
 The runtime is a concurrent transaction processor. Transactions specify their
 data dependencies upfront and dynamic memory allocation is explicit. By