Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the YearCheck all the winners of Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. |
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2010 | Michael R. Young | Managing a Dental Practice: The Genghis Khan Way | |
2009 | Daina Taimina | Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes (Mathematical book featuring crocheted hyperbolic planes) |
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2008 | Philip M. Parker | The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais (Computer-generated combination of boilerplate text and public-domain data) |
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2007 | Big Boom | If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs (A self-help book written by a man for the benefit of women.) |
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2006 | Julian Montague | The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (About how to identify abandoned shopping carts.) |
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2005 | Gary Leon Hill | People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It (About dead spirits who took up residence in bodies that did not belong to them.) |
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2004 | Rick Pelicano | Bombproof Your Horse (Full title Bombproof Your Horse: Teach Your Horse to Be Confident, Obedient, and Safe, No Matter What You Encounter.[31]) |
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Lauren Tjaden | Bombproof Your Horse (Full title Bombproof Your Horse: Teach Your Horse to Be Confident, Obedient, and Safe, No Matter What You Encounter.[31]) |
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2003 | Alisa Surkis | The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (Eight stories in a pastiche of dime novel styles from different decades, each involving lesbian romance and horses.[30]) |
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Monica Nolan | The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (Eight stories in a pastiche of dime novel styles from different decades, each involving lesbian romance and horses.[30]) |
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2002 | Kaz Cooke | Living with Crazy Buttocks (Humorous essays on contemporary culture, including female body image and other topics) |
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2001 | Gerard Forlin | Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service (About corporate manslaughter, i.e. corporate liability for manslaughter.) |
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2000 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers | High Performance Stiffened Structures (About stiffness in engineering.) |
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1999 | Charles H. Stirton | Weeds in a Changing World: British Crop Protection Council Symposium Proceedings No. 64 | |
1998 | Gareth Williams | Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw | |
1997 | Alex Comfort | The Joy of Sex (Pocket edition of The Joy of Sex.) |
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1996 | Derek Willan | Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers (Cancellation numbers in the Hellenic Post.) |
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1995 | Douglas Davies | Reusing Old Graves (About reusing old graves.) |
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Alastair Shaw | Reusing Old Graves (About reusing old graves.) |
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1994 | C. C. Stanley | Highlights in the History of Concrete (About the history of concrete.) |
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1993 | Charles J. Bareis | American Bottom Archaeology (Full title American Bottom Archaeology: A Summary of the FAI-270 Project Contribution to the Culture History of the Mississippi River Valley.[25]) |
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James W. Porter | American Bottom Archaeology (Full title American Bottom Archaeology: A Summary of the FAI-270 Project Contribution to the Culture History of the Mississippi River Valley.[25]) |
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1992 | John W. Trimmer | How to Avoid Huge Ships (Advice to pleasure boat sailors on the dangers of shipping lanes) |
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1990 | Patrick Califia | Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual (A guide to BDSM and safe sex.) |
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1989 | Kathleen Meyer | How to Shit in the Woods (About responsible treatment of one's human waste in wilderness areas.) |
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1988 | Elaine Dee | Versailles: The View From Sweden (Catalogue of an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum on the influence of French Baroque and Classicism on design in contemporary Sweden.[22]) |
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Guy Walton | Versailles: The View From Sweden (Catalogue of an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum on the influence of French Baroque and Classicism on design in contemporary Sweden.[22]) |
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1986 | Glenn C. Ellenbogen | Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality (Humorous and parody articles about psychiatry.) |
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1985 | Donald L. Wilson | Natural bust enlargement with total mind power: How to use the other 90 % of your mind to increase the size of your breasts (About bust enlargement through positive thinking.) |
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1984 | C. Anne Wilson | The book of marmalade (About the history of marmalade.) |
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1983 | Alexander Tselikov | The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling (About rolling as a metalworking technique.) |
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G. S. Nikitin | The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling (About rolling as a metalworking technique.) |
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S. E. Rokotyan | The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling (About rolling as a metalworking technique.) |
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1982 | Various Authors | Population and Other Problems: Family Planning, Housing 1,000 million, Labour Employment (About the demographics of the People's Republic of China.) |
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1981 | Various Authors | Last Chance at Love - Terminal Romances | |
1980 | Dennis Nolan | The joy of chickens (About breeds of chicken.) |
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1979 | Barbara Sherman Heyl | The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution | |
1978 | Various Authors | Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice (Studies on uses of furless laboratory mice.) |