No 20 - Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year

If you don't already know, the Bookseller magazine has just announced the shortlist for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. The nominees are:

I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen
How to Write a How to Write Book
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues
Cheese Problems Solved
If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs
People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood

The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year is a humorous literary award, normally given each year to the book with the oddest title. The award was created by Horace Bent, and first presented in 1978 by the British magazine Bookseller. Nominees are selected from submissions sent in by librarians, publishers, and booksellers, and the final winner is voted for by the public

The details for each nomination can be found here.

My pick for the winner will definitely be:

Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues
By Catharine A MacKinnon (Harvard University Press)


This is a question long debated by biologists, psychotherapists and misogynists the world over. Annoyingly, MacKinnon doesn’t claim to have the definitive answer. Instead, her book is a "critique of the trans-national status quo that also envisions the transforming possibilities of human rights . . . this bracing book makes us look as never before at an ongoing war too long undeclared."

Oddest title is crowned

28 March 2008

If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs was crowned the winner of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.