The Oddest Book Titles


Since 1978, the pseudonymic diarist Horace Bent of the Bookseller magazine, with the sponsorship of The Diagram Group, managed an annual contest for the oddest book titles. The contenders are often as alarming as the winners.

In 2008, a book celebrating the prize winners and nominees was released:

Joel Rickett,
How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books,
Aurum Press, 2008,
ISBN: 9781845133214.

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Last modified on 08 January 2023.