Oddest Title of the Year Award
Every year the Diagram Group offers a prize, via the column of the estimable Horace Bent in the Bookseller magazine, to the person in the trade who comes up with the oddest book title published that year. Many — but not all — of the winning titles are from professional, technical, academic and scientific publishers.
Since the prize was established in 1978, winners have included:

• Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Nude Mice (1978)
• The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution (1979)
• Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual (1990)
• The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling (1993)
• Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers (1996)
• High-Performance Stiffened Structures (2000)
• Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service (2001)
• Living with Cray Buttocks (2002)
• The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stones (2003)

Other submissions over the years have included:

• Access to the Top of Petroleum Tankers
• An Illustrated History of Dustcarts
• Bombproof Tour Horse
• Classic American Funeral Vehicles
• Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in 19th-century Art and Fiction
• Did Lewis Carroll Visit Llandudno?
• Diversity of Sulfate-reducing Bacteria Along a Vertical Oxygen Gradient in a Sediment of Schiermonnikoog
• Fancy Coffins To Make Yourself
• Lightweight Sandwich Construction
• New Caribbean Office Procedures
• Pet Packaging Technology
• Principles and Practices of Bioslurping
• Psoriasis at Tour Fingertips
• Short Walks at Land’s End
• Tea Bag Folding
• The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox
• The Anger of Aubergines
• The Fiat-Footed Flies of Europe
• The Voodoo Revenge Book: An Anger Management Program You Can Really Stick With
• Throwing Pots
• Twenty Beautiful Tears of Bottom Physics
• What is a Cow?: And Other Questions That Might Occur to Ton When Walking the Thames Path
• Whose Bottom? A Lift-the-Flap Book
• Woodcarving with a Chainsaw

From: Ian Crofton, Brewer’s Cabinet of Curiosities