After weeding books with ridiculous sounding titles, I found that a prize exists for books with the oddest titles. I was listening to National Public Radio when they ran a story about the Diagram Prize list of winners which British trade magazine for the publishing industry, The Bookseller publishes annually. If Wikipedia is at all credible, the list and the prize originated as entertainment during the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair.
This list is a short seven titles, up one from six because I guess someone just couldn't decide between two terrible tomes. I am not going to take the time to give you the scoop on all of them, but the titles are "must reads" even if the books are not. I am going to share a couple of my favorites, and then you can go to the link to The Bookseller.
"The Mushroom in Christian Art" by John A. Rush and "A Taxonomy of Office Chairs" by Jonathan Olivares are titles that just make you want to cuddle up on the sofa and read.
Read on:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/diagram-prize-shortlist-revealed.html
If you want to see the whole history of Diagram Prize winners, go to the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookseller/Diagram_Prize_for_Oddest_Title_of_the_Year
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