Feb 25 2008
What’s the Weirdest Book Title? Cast Your Vote
The British trade magazine, The Bookseller, is waiting for your vote for the Diagram Prize that honors the world’s oddest book title. You can cast your vote at www.thebookseller.com for one of these six final entries, which were submitted by publishers, bookstore employees and librarians worldwide. The nominees are: I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen by Jasper McCutcheon; How to Write a How to Write Book by Brian Paddock; 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; and People Who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Doctor Feelgood by Dee Gordon. The winner will be announced on March 28. This contest has been held since 1978, when the winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.
Do you have a title to suggest? Which of these do you believe should win and why? I’d love to hear your responses.
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