You may or may not be aware of the Diagram Prize, awarded each year to the book with the oddest title. Previous winners have included Living With Crazy Buttocks, Bombproof Your Horse, Cooking With Poo, and the inaugural winner back in 1978, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.
Well, the shortlist for The Diagram Prize 2014 has been drawn up, and it is as follows…
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Working Class Cats
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Are Trout South African?
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How To Poo On A Date
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Pie-ography
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How To Pray When You Are Pissed At God
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The Origin of Feces
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Which one of the contenders for The Diagram Prize 2014: The Oddest Book Titles is your favourite? If you want to vote for your favourite, you can do so by clicking here.
The list of previous winners is:
| Year | Title |
| 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 | Unsolved Problems of Modern 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: 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 | Designing 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 |
| 2009 | Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes |
| 2010 | Managing a Dental Practice: The Genghis Khan Way |
| 2011 | Cooking with Poo |
| 2012 | Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop |
