Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the YearCheck all the winners of Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. |
Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
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2010 |
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Michael R. Young | Managing a Dental Practice: The Genghis Khan Way |
2009 |
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Daina Taimina | Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes (Mathematical book featuring crocheted hyperbolic planes) |
2008 |
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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) |
2007 |
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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.) |
2006 |
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Julian Montague | The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (About how to identify abandoned shopping carts.) |
2005 |
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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.) |
2004 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Kaz Cooke | Living with Crazy Buttocks (Humorous essays on contemporary culture, including female body image and other topics) |
2001 |
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Gerard Forlin | Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service (About corporate manslaughter, i.e. corporate liability for manslaughter.) |
2000 |
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers | High Performance Stiffened Structures (About stiffness in engineering.) |
1999 |
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Charles H. Stirton | Weeds in a Changing World: British Crop Protection Council Symposium Proceedings No. 64 |
1998 |
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Gareth Williams | Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw |
1997 |
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Alex Comfort | The Joy of Sex (Pocket edition of The Joy of Sex.) |
1996 |
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Derek Willan | Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers (Cancellation numbers in the Hellenic Post.) |
1995 |
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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 |
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C. C. Stanley | Highlights in the History of Concrete (About the history of concrete.) |
1993 |
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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 |
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John W. Trimmer | How to Avoid Huge Ships (Advice to pleasure boat sailors on the dangers of shipping lanes) |
1990 |
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Patrick Califia | Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual (A guide to BDSM and safe sex.) |
1989 |
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Kathleen Meyer | How to Shit in the Woods (About responsible treatment of one's human waste in wilderness areas.) |
1988 |
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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 |
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Glenn C. Ellenbogen | Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality (Humorous and parody articles about psychiatry.) |
1985 |
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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.) |
1984 |
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C. Anne Wilson | The book of marmalade (About the history of marmalade.) |
1983 |
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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 |
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Various Authors | Population and Other Problems: Family Planning, Housing 1,000 million, Labour Employment (About the demographics of the People's Republic of China.) |
1981 |
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Various Authors | Last Chance at Love - Terminal Romances |
1980 |
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Dennis Nolan | The joy of chickens (About breeds of chicken.) |
1979 |
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Barbara Sherman Heyl | The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution |
1978 |
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Various Authors | Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice (Studies on uses of furless laboratory mice.) |