The oddest book titles of 2008
'Baboon Metaphysics', 'Curbside Consultation of the Colon' and 'Strip and Knit with Style' are just some of the books battling it out to become the oddest book title of 2008.
The Bookseller magazine each year highlights some of the publications with odd titles with readers voting for the weirdest.
The Diagram Prize has been running since 1978 and has seen some odd, weird and downright wacky book titles such as last years winner 'If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs.'
Other finalists for the 2008 title are 'The Large Sieve and its Applications,' 'Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring' and The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais.
This year they say it was even more difficult to narrow the selection down to just six finalists ... they didn't even have room for 'Excrement in the Late Middle Ages' and 'All Dogs Have ADHD.'
A spokesperson for magazine said of the award: "It celebrates the diversity within book publishing today, the risks publishers are willing to take to support freedom of information, the beauty of print-on-demand for fascinatingly niche titles, and perhaps most of all, complete and utter oddity."
The 2008 shortlist:
• Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L Cheney and Robert M Seyfarth
• Curbside Consultation of the Colon by Brooks D Cash
• The Large Sieve and its Applications by Emmanuel Kowalski
• Strip and Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski
• Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring by Lietai Yang
• The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Professor Philip M Parker
The winner of the 2008 award will be chosen by a public vote and will be announced on Friday 27th March, 2009.
Previous highlights of the competition have included; The Joy of Chickens (1980) Reusing Old Graves (1995) Living With Crazy Buttocks (2002) and Bombproof Your Horse (2004)
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