Cheesy Book Titles
Enough politics, Cantor, and Krugman, it's time to celebrate the oddest book titles of the year.
The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, also known as the Diagram Prize, is a humorous literary award that is given to the book with the oddest title.
This years cheesy winner, of course, The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais. The runner ups were no slouches; Baboon Metaphysics, Curbside Consultation of the Colon -- a medical manual, and a hobby tome, Strip and Knit With Style.
Previous runner ups include; How Green Were the Nazis?, 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, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium, and who can forget, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.
Below is a list of past winners. What's on your bookshelf?
Be sure to recommended, and vote at: http://www.thebookseller.com/
1978 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice
1979 The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution
1980 The Joy of Chickens
1981 Last Chance at Love - Terminal Romances
1982 Population and Other Problems: Family Planning, Housing 1,000 million, Labour Employment
1983 The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
1984 The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today
1985 Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts
1986 Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
1987 No Award
1988 Versailles: The View From Sweden
1989 How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
1990 Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual
1991 No Award
1992 How to Avoid Huge Ships
1993 American Bottom Archaeology
1994 Highlights in the History of Concrete
1995 Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes
1996 Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
1997 The Joy of Sex, the Pocket Edition
1998 Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw
1999 Weeds in a Changing World: British Crop Protection Council Symposium Proceedings No. 64
2000 High Performance Stiffened Structures
2001 Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service
2002 Living with Crazy Buttocks
2003 The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
2004 Bombproof Your Horse
2005 People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It
2006 The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
2007 If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs
2008 The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais
If you commend, please recommend.
The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, also known as the Diagram Prize, is a humorous literary award that is given to the book with the oddest title.
This years cheesy winner, of course, The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais. The runner ups were no slouches; Baboon Metaphysics, Curbside Consultation of the Colon -- a medical manual, and a hobby tome, Strip and Knit With Style.
Previous runner ups include; How Green Were the Nazis?, 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, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium, and who can forget, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.
Below is a list of past winners. What's on your bookshelf?
Be sure to recommended, and vote at: http://www.thebookseller.com/
1978 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice
1979 The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution
1980 The Joy of Chickens
1981 Last Chance at Love - Terminal Romances
1982 Population and Other Problems: Family Planning, Housing 1,000 million, Labour Employment
1983 The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
1984 The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today
1985 Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts
1986 Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
1987 No Award
1988 Versailles: The View From Sweden
1989 How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
1990 Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual
1991 No Award
1992 How to Avoid Huge Ships
1993 American Bottom Archaeology
1994 Highlights in the History of Concrete
1995 Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes
1996 Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
1997 The Joy of Sex, the Pocket Edition
1998 Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw
1999 Weeds in a Changing World: British Crop Protection Council Symposium Proceedings No. 64
2000 High Performance Stiffened Structures
2001 Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service
2002 Living with Crazy Buttocks
2003 The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
2004 Bombproof Your Horse
2005 People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It
2006 The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
2007 If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs
2008 The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais
If you commend, please recommend.
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I knew if I hung around here long enough there would be a book on a list I actually read instead of books I never heard of.
I actually read the book from 1989 and get this....I read it during a Girl Scout Leader Training Weekend. Yeah a bunch of us Midwestern wimmins camping out learning how to be role models for young girls. We ran the Camp Leader's bra up the flagpole, saluted, and sang "Do Yer Ears Hang Low". Only we didn't say 'Ears". Good times, good times. :o)
March 28, 2009 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
What fun. To moi' a tent is a house without air-conditioning. I married a princess from MN, to her a tent is anything under 3,000 square feet - we live in a very small tent and for that I pay dearly. LOL
re "Only we didn't say 'Ears". Did they swing to and fro?
Love those memories...
March 28, 2009 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, they didn't back then, but they do now. ;o)
March 28, 2009 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you commend you should recommend? WHAT KIND OF SH/7 IS THAT? THAT'S NOT RIGHT, RUNNING AROUND TELLING PEOPLE TO RECOMMEND. PEOPLE WHO ONLY HAVE FIVE OR TEN REC'S IN THEIR ENTIRE LIBRARY. I MEAN IT JUST IS NOT RIGHT....
Hahahahahah
I never saw this before. I mean a safety manual for bondage. My 'safe word' is MORE.
This is wonderful. Steve you have me laughing and I did book mark it.
March 28, 2009 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shameless self promotion - u' gots' a prob wit dat, buddy?
The reason is, I know how much you cherish and adore my posts and I just want others to know what makes you happy...
ps the page could use a better system to keep good posts going cause if you don't get like 5 recommends in the first 5 minutes your post is like history.
March 28, 2009 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
WELL YOU GOT FIVE AND YOU ARE HERE TO STAY ALWAYS.
March 28, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hilarious amigo. Safe words can be problematic.
March 29, 2009 3:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
funny link Miguel. I keep coming back here to reread the titles. hahahahaha American Bottom Archeology. hahaha What are they digging up?
March 29, 2009 6:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now 6!
After checking my bookshelf it seems the titles are rather conventional, although a few ambiguous ones popped up here and there. The cheesiest (although not really odd) I could find was....
The Hot Flash Club (don't ask...LOL)
March 28, 2009 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The Hot Flash Club," I thought I was alone (my wife approved of this comment)
March 28, 2009 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a delight that this is not political, although I am guilty of always posting political stuff! I also have a copy of "How to Shit in the Woods."
I just heard about a book today called, "The World is Fat," written by a guy from Duke (I think). His point is that once people started drinking sweet drinks they didn't adjust their food calorie intake, and the fat started piling on. The most interesting thing:
France (that Socialistic place!) recognized this, and took all vending machines out of their schools and put water fountains back in. Every single school!
Interesting!
March 28, 2009 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
In case it wasn't obvious, that is the kind of 'Socialism' we need! [That and single-payer, Universal Health Care]
In France, they realized they had a big public health issue: obesity. They identified the cause (science) and figured out what to do about it (commitment to the general good). The republicans call that "terrible," but I call it using science, and governmental intervention in a positive way. They label it "socialism" simply to scare people, while not acknowledging that they are perfectly happy with "socialized" fire and police protection.
March 28, 2009 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
OOOOPS! There I go! Political! Sorry.
March 28, 2009 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
No Award won twice? That's total bullshit!
March 28, 2009 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink