Saturday 27 October 2018

The 2018 Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year...

This prize has been running 40 years with a number of extremely odd titles winning...

As I blog about this every year and choose the title/s that I feel are strong contenders for the win, I usually have a favourite and another possible.

This year I'm not impressed with the six titles. But I may just be getting tired!

  • Are Gay Men More Accurate in Detecting Deceits? Hoe-Chi Angel Au (Open Dissertation Press)
  • Why Sell Tacos in Africa? By Paul Oberschneider (Blue Ocean Marketing)
  • Call of Nature: The Secret Life of Dung by Richard Jones (Pelagic Publishing)
  • Joy of Water Boiling based on the idea of ​​the Berlin writer Thomas Götz von Aust (Achse Verlag)
  • Equine Dry Needling by Cornelia Klarholz, Andrea Schachinger (tredition)
  • Jesus on Gardening by David Muskett (Onwards and Upwards)

A contender...
I ended up voting for Equine Dry Needling...

If you want to find out more then pop over to the Bookseller website where you can read more, including discovering which of the six nearly didn't make it.

The link to vote is at the bottom of the Bookseller article.

Voting closes on the 16th November and the winner announced on the 23rd November.

Suspect Water Boiling might do well...





8 comments:

Helen Baggott said...

I'm sure we could do better!

Carolb said...

Helen- Definitely.:-)

In past years some of the titles appear to have been chosen to highlight that oddness, or they didn't actually stop and think about how their title came over. This year's selection are sadly uninspiring.

Patsy said...

I'm not overly impressed either.

Carolb said...

Patsy- it may just be that writers/publishers are getting better at choosing titles than they used to be. :-)

Julia Thorley said...

This has raised a smile on a chilly Monday morning, but I agree: not exactly pant-wettingly funny.

Carolb said...

Julia- glad I could make your Monday morning better. No, sadly the quality of odd titles has been declining.

Rosemary Gemmell said...

They don't seem quite odd enough this year, Carol! I would have to choose the Water Boiling one as I can't imagine how it would fill enough pages (the words, not the water).

Carolb said...

Rosemary- that was my thought too, they're not odd enough. Apparently the Water Boiling one is in German, with an English title, so that's probably odd enough for this year. :-)