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The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, originally known as the Diagram Group Prize for the Oddest Title at the Frankfurt Book Fair, commonly known as the Diagram Prize for short, is a humorous literary award that is given annually to a book with an unusual title. The prize is named after the Diagram Group, an information and graphics company based in London, and The Bookseller, a British trade magazine for the publishing industry. Originally organized to provide entertainment during the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair, the prize has since been awarded every year by The Bookseller and is now organised by the magazine's diarist Horace Bent. The winner was initially decided by a panel of judges, but since 2000 the winner has been decided by a public vote on The Bookseller's website.
Some of the titles were collected in How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books.
Some of the titles were collected in How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books.
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How to Avoid Huge Ships
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The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
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3.69 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Bombproof Your Horse: Teach Your Horse to Be Confident, Obedient and Safe No Matter What You Encounter
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3.97 avg rating — 73 ratings
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People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It
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3.38 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop: And Other Practical Advice in Our Campaign Against the Fairy Kingdom
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3.42 avg rating — 119 ratings
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How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
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3.67 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
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Derek Willan (Editor)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 169,
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Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes
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2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music
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K.F.B. Fletcher (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 147,
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The Slaughter of Farmed Animals: Practical Ways of Enhancing Animal Welfare
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Temple Grandin (Contributor)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 147,
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Whose Bottom?
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Moira Butterfield (Goodreads Author)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Book of Marmalade
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3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Cooking with Poo
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4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Entertaining With Insects, or: The Original Guide to Insect Cookery
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How To Poo On A Date
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3.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Fabulous Small Jews
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4.02 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Knitting in the Fast Lane
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2.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
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4.07 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Do-it-yourself brain surgery & other home skills
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3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Lesbian S/m Safety Manual: Basic Health and Safety for Woman-To-Woman S/M (Lady Winston Series)
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Patrick Califia (editor)
4.04 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 93,
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Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Mind Power
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2.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Living With Crazy Buttocks
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Kaz Cooke (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 90,
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Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment and Nation in the Third Reich
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Franz-Josef Brüggemeier (Editor)
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 88,
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Managing a Dental Practice the Genghis Khan Way
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
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4.10 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Strangers Have the Best Candy
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Margaret Meps Schulte (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 84,
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Coyotes I Have Known
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Design for Impact: Fifty Years of Airline Safety Cards
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3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them: How to Keep Your Tractors Happy and Your Family Running
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4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Beyond Leaf Raking: Learning to Serve/Serving to Learn (Essentials for Christian Youth! Series)
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Highlights in the History of Concrete
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What to Say When You Talk to Yourself
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4.15 avg rating — 17,358 ratings
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Versailles: The View From Sweden
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Italian Without Words
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3.18 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Anger of Aubergines: Stories of Women and Food
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Bulbul Sharma (editor)
3.50 avg rating — 272 ratings
score: 72,
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Joy of Chicken
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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
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The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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277 Secrets Your Snake and Lizard Wants you to Know Unusual and useful Information for Snake Owners & Snake Lovers
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3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Rats for Those Who Care
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The Care and Feeding of Stuffed Animals
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Glen Knape (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Knitting With Dog Hair: Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You'll Never Meet
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3.99 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Tea Bag Folding
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Toothpick Sculpture & Ice-Cream Stick Art
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Wood Carving with a Chainsaw
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Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself (Schiffer Book for Woodworkers)
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4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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Is There Sex After Death?
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God Makes Sex Great
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Celtic Sex Magic: For Couples, Groups, and Solitary Practitioners
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Six-Legged Sex: The Erotic Lives of Bugs
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Confessions of a Pagan Nun
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Kate Horsley (Goodreads Author)
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After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion
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Dominic Pettman (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
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Reading Toes: Your Feet as Reflections of Your Personality
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Outhouses of Alaska
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How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books
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3.65 avg rating — 65 ratings
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A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society
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Lawnmowers: An Illustrated History
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Is this list monitored? Does the creator, or their proxy, make sure ppl aren't adding random books with weird titles?
Cheryl wrote: "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society was announced in November 2020 as the current winner."Runner-up Introducing the Medieval Ass..."
Thanks for filling me in! I'll add all of them, or you can.
Thank you Rosa... I'll let you do it. :)
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"Runner-up Introducing the Medieval Ass, sees the University of Melbourne’s medieval historian Kathryn L Smithies explore “the ass’s enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the middle ages”. Other contenders included Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music, Lawnmowers: An Illustrated History and The Slaughter of Farmed Animals: Practical Ways of Enhancing Animal Welfare."
The winner is definitely fascinating (I loved the extensive preview provided by Look Inside at Amazon. The Slaughter of Farmed Animals: Practical Ways of Enhancing Animal Welfare is important, too. I also want to investigate the allusionary referents to heavy metal music. I'm a little less interested in lawnmowers and donkeys, but I can see their relevance and appeal to some readers.
This is a cool prize... I wonder if sales of any titles have gone up because of it.