Trolley book wins odd title prize
A book titled The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification has been named as the oddest book title of the year.
Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Dagestan came second, with Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence in third place.
Other runners-up include How Green Were the Nazis? and D Di Mascio of Coventry – An Ice Cream Company of Repute, With An Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans.
A selection of past winners:
High Performance Stiffened Structures
Living with Crazy Buttocks
How To Avoid Huge Ships
The Joy of Chickens
Re-using Old Graves
Highlights in the History of Concrete
It’s hard to pick a favourite, isn’t it? 🙂
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I sometimes think I came into existence in third place too…..
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Not sure if this counts – but I like the title of a book my daughter bought recently:
“Getting the buggers to behave”
She’s teaching recalcitrant 16 yr olds and needs all the help she can get.
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The funniest bit there is the *2* stuck on the end of the title. Clearly book 1 didn’t work. 😀
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I’ve always felt that teaching manuals need to have the phrase “a whip and a chair” in them somewhere! 😉
Can’t think of any odd book titles off the top of my head, but if I come across any, I’m only too happy to share.
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Armando Ianucci came out with the stereotypical cable TV show title:
When Nazis Go Bad.
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I have a copy of ‘I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and other Self-Help Fashions’ by Wendy Kaminer.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat was also a good one.
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I also have a very good book about Paraguay, called ‘At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig’.
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