Audio book track titles are dates

I have several audio books that the tracks are dates but iTunes is not organizing them by the dates.  Is there a way to organize them by the title as the date?

Take a look at this excellent article from another forum member turingtest2 on audiobooks for iPods.
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/audiobooks.asp
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