The winner of the 'Oddest Book Title of the Year' award has been revealed
LONDON -- Everyone knows a book's title is a pretty important way of catching the eye of browsers -- but the people behind the titles below really took things to a whole other level.
The winner of The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year -- which scours the most random corners of the publishing world for weird, wacky or just plain confusing book titles and then puts a shortlist up for public vote -- has been announced by The Bookseller.
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To get you an idea of the level of competition, here are the rest of the books that made the shortlist.
These three came in at seventh, sixth and fifth.
Paper Folding with Children came in last with 2.6% of the vote; Behind the Binoculars: Interviews with Acclaimed Birdwatchers came sixth with 2.9%; and the slightly hard to say Reading the Liver: Papyrological Texts on Ancient Greek Extispicy came in fifth with 9.9%.
In at fourth was this photography book.
The strongly titled Soviet Bus Stops earned a solid 14.9% of the vote.
These two just missed out on the top spot.
The font's a bit hard to read, but the full title of that one on the left is Reading from Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus. That one came in second with 24.3% of the vote and just missed out on the top spot. The uniquely titled Transvestite Vampire Biker Nuns From Outer Space: A Consideration of Cult Film, meanwhile, picked up the bronze medal with 20.7%.
And the winner is...
Can't argue with that really, can you? Too Naked for the Nazis (a biography about an Egyptian comedy dance trio written by Alan Stafford) was the official winner of the Diagram Prize with 24.8% of the vote.
"I am sand dancing with joy, and utterly astonished to have polled more votes than the bums and the nuns," Stafford was quoted as saying in a press release sent to Mashable.
"I’m hugely grateful to everyone who took the trouble to vote for me. A good title not only tells the public what the book’s about, sometimes it tells the author too! Too Naked for the Nazis pinpoints the central event of my book -- when a trio of comedy Egyptian sand dancers incurred the wrath of the Nazi high command by a blatant exposure of hairy legs."
The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year is awarded annually by The Bookseller.
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