The votes are in and the winner has been announced. This week, the book that won the award Oddest Book Title of the Last 30 Years was announced by theBookseller.com. Here are the real titles of some of the books that were considered. Which one do you think won?
- Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
- People Who Don't Know They're Dead
- Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice
- How To Bombproof Your Horse
- I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen
- How to Write a How to Write Book
- Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues
- Cheese Problems Solved
- People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood
- Drawing and Painting the Undead;
- Tiles of the Unexpected: A Study of Six Miles of Geometric Tile Patterns on the London Underground
- Squid Recruitment Dynamics,
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
- D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/04/diagram.prize.oddest.book.title?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26578910/
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/53656-oddest-book-titles-prize-shortlist-announced.html
http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=6&a=35409
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