Every year the bookseller Magazine has a contest for the oddest book title of the year. The shortlist for the Diagram prize has just been announced. And it appears that 2007 was as weird as any other year. While there might be accusations that publishers are being more careful, some truly wonderful books are still getting through, including:
I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen
How to Write a How to Write Book
Cheese Problems Solved
If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs
Last years competition included such memorable titles as "How Green Were The Nazis", "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague" and "D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans". The 2005 winner was "People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It by Gary Leon Hill"
You still have a chance to vote. Go on, you know you want to (and I am not telling which I have voted for).
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