Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan

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The Bookseller magazine today reveals the shortlist for The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.
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An online poll to find the winner is now open at theBookseller.com, and the winner will be revealed on Friday 13th April on the eve of the London Book Fai
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Last year's winner was People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It by Gary Leon Hill (Red Wheel).

and this years nominees are

• How Green Were the Nazis?, edited by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier, Mark Cioc and Thomas Zeller (Ohio University Press)
• D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans by Roger De Boer, Harvey Francis Pitcher, and Alan Wilkinson (Past Masters)
• The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague (Harry N Abrams),
• Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan, by Robert Chenciner by Gabib Ismailov, Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov and Alex Binnie (Bennett & Bloom)
• Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium, edited by Robert J Anderson, Juliet A Brodie, Edvar Onsoyen and Alan T Critchley (Kluwer)
• Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence by David Benatar (Clarendon Press).

http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=6&a=35409

Apart from the online voting the beeb is also running a 'write your own first paragraph of one of these' fingy, ..., dont know what the prize is & i'm sure we've all got better fings to do etc

but just in case today@bbc.co.uk
with subject line = "odd book tiitles"

[ballz2wallz]

Mine would be

"Authors Who Take Drugs and Try to Write Books"

[motivez]

Totally voting for: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague (Harry N Abrams)

[Miss Givens]

No way......let's say ' Oooo-rah!! ' for those tattooed Mountain Women I say...go sisters, GO !