Eye-catching book titles
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The book is based on the Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. (See also the Guardian article The Must Reads.) Sadly, opportunist schoolboy smut seems to play a significant part here too but there are some gems to be found such as the following (many of which are available via Amazon):
- Highlights in the History of Concrete (winner 1994)
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (winner 2007)
- Tattoed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan (shortlisted 2006)
- How Green Were the Nazis? (shortlisted 2006)
- The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today (winner 1984)