Selected winners of the Bookseller/Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year:

• Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice (1978)
• The Joy of Chickens (1980)
• The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling (1983)
• Versailles: The View From Sweden (1988)
• How to Avoid Huge Ships (1992)
• Highlights in the History of Concrete (1994)
• Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers (1996)
• The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (2003)
• Bombproof Your Horse (2004)
• People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It (2005)
• The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (2006)

Last year’s winner, The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais, is the subject of some controversy, as it was written by an automatic authoring machine rather than a human being. But, said awards administrator Philip Stone, “Given the number of celebrity memoirs out there that are ghostwritten, I don’t think it’s too strange.”