Oddest book titles of 2007
'Cheese Problems Solved' and 'I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen' are just two of the shortlisted entries for the annual 'Oddest Book Title of the Year Prize"This year is the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize, which honours the odd titles which are spotted and submitted by publishers, booksellers and librarians around the world.
www.bookseller.com who organize the prize are running a public vote on the site and the winner will be announced on March 28th.
Horace Bent, The Bookseller diarist and custodian of the Diagram Prize, said: "I confess: I have been anxious that as publishing becomes ever more corporate, the trade’s quirky charms are being squeezed out.
"Lists are pruned, targets are set, authors are culled. But happily my fears have been proved unfounded: oddity lives on."
The spotter of the winning book receives a magnum of champagne.
The shortlisted books are:
I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen - By Jasper McCutcheon
How to Write a How to Write Book - By Brian Piddock
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues - By Catharine A MacKinnon
Cheese Problems Solved - Edited by P L H McSweeney
If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs - By Big Boom
People Who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood - By Dee Gordon
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"Lists are pruned, targets are set, authors are culled. But happily my fears have been proved unfounded: oddity lives on."
The spotter of the winning book receives a magnum of champagne.
The shortlisted books are:
I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen - By Jasper McCutcheon
How to Write a How to Write Book - By Brian Piddock
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues - By Catharine A MacKinnon
Cheese Problems Solved - Edited by P L H McSweeney
If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs - By Big Boom
People Who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood - By Dee Gordon
LINKS
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TELL A FRIEND
