Our friends at BookFinder.com have released the 2009 edition of their Report on the search trends of out-of-print books.

As usual the list is the quite interesting and amazingly eclectic. There are a couple of fermiliar faces like Sex by Madonna which has been on the list for the past seven years, as well a load of new titles including:

Cop without a badge: the extraordinary undercover life of Kevin Maher by Charles Kipps
It wasn’t the life of Kevin Maher that cased demand for Cop Without a Badge to spike, but the hi-jinks of his ex-wife, and star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey TV show, Daniel Staub. For the show’s entire season, Staub’s co-stars had been alluding to her appearance in the book (where she is portrayed in a less than positive light) until the final episode when Cop Without a Badge was flashed on screen. Since that time, the book has gone from flea market fodder, to an out-of-print collectible, to being re-printed in August 2009.

The recently deflowered girl; the right thing to say on every dubious occasion by Edward Gorey
In January 2009, a blogger with a LiveJournal account found a copy of this long forgotten Edward Gorey gem and posted scans online. The post became an Internet sensation with hundreds of thousands of people viewing the post, crashing the LiveJournal blog. The book, which is an etiquette book parody that instructs young ladies on what to say after losing their virginity, will be republished in November 2009 by Bloomsbury.

Read the whole report on BookFinder.com