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Weirdest book titles from 2008

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Each year The Bookseller Magazine awards The Digagram prize for the strangest book title from the past twelve months. Some winners from the past few years have been The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Bombproof Your Horse and Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service.

Here is the 2008 Digagram Prize longlist

A God or a Bench by Anne Betty Weinshenker

All Dogs Have ADHD by Kathy Hoopmann

Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L Cheney

Christian Texts for Aztecs by Jaime Lara

Curbside Consultation of the Colon by Brooks D Cash

F**k It by John C Parkin

Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel

Living with Dormice by Sue Eden

Malformed Frogs by Michael J Lannoo

Sketches of Hull Authors by Reginald Walter Corlass

Strip and Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski

Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring by Lietai Yang

The 2007-2012 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Philip M Parker

The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials by Erika Doss

The Industrial Vagina by Sheila Jeffreys

The Large Sieve and its Applications by Emmanuel Kowalski

The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts

Toilets That Make Compost by Peter Morgan

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