Silly Book Titles

Silly Book Titles

There are several ways to view the topic of Silly Book Titles.  Some titles are innately ridiculous, for example 'I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen'.  In other cases it's the combination of title and author that brings a smile to our face, for instance by Forestry by Teresa Green.

• This year's short list of silly book titles  
• Funny and amusing book titles
• Bizarre Book Titles
• Contrived yet funny examples of silly book titles
• Silly Book Titles - Medical Section
• Silly Books by Famous Authors
• Silly Book Titles - Out of Print

Silly Book Titles - Awards

The British magazine 'The Bookseller' has announced 2008's shortlist for the oddest book title of the year.  Each winner receives the Diagram Prize, which has been running since 1978, when the winner that year was 'Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice'.

2008 Winner of London's Diagram Prize of odd titles is 'Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers'. Will and Guy cannot wait for the movie!

2007's winner of 'The Oddest Book Title' was: 'The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America by A Guide to Field Identification', by Julian Montague.

Enjoy the hilarity of this year's short list of silly book titles by

• May Flowers by April Showers
• Cheese Problems Solved by P.L.H. McSweeney
• How to Write a How to Write Book by Brian Paddock
• I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen by Jasper McCutcheon
• If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs by Big Boom
• Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon
• People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond by From King Canute to Doctor Feelgood by Dee Gordon.

Will and Guy have researched further funny and amusing book titles for you to smile at by

• The 120 year diet
• Detecting Fake Nazi Regalia
• Foundry Work for the Amateur
• Versailles by The View from Sweden
• Oral Sadism and the Vegetable Personality
• The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
• The Potatoes of Bolivia by Their Breeding, Value and Evolutionary Relationships
• Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry
• The Interpretation of Geological Time from the Evidence of Fossilised Elephant Droppings in Eastern Europe
• Big and Very Big Hole Drilling

Bizarre Book Titles

Based on an article written by Joel Rickett in a Weekend Guardian supplement we have succeeded in tracking down further bizarre book titles to amuse and amaze our readers. Will has to admit that some of these strange titles made him giggle – 'must have been my mood,' he said.

The Diagram Prize is awarded each year to the oddest title presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Guy agrees that several of these books fall into the 'must read category'.

• Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself [A book for woodworkers]
• Knitting with Dog Hair
• Wood Carving with a Chain Saw
• Drying Flowers With A Microwave
• Nuclear War: What's In It For You?
• How Green were the Nazis?
• Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them
• How to Avoid Huge Ships
• Bomb Proof Your House

Silly Book Titles - Medical Section

Medical books are usually difficult to understand, therefore Will and Guy were pleased to see these titles in both the Ladybird book list and in the 'Janet and John' series.

• A Pictorial Book of Tongue Coatings
• Brace Owner's Manual: A Guide To The Wearing And Care Of Braces
• Waterproofing Your Child
• The Secret of Sphincters
• DIY Brain Surgery
• Nasal Maintenance
• Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Personal View
• Hot Topics in Urology

Silly Books by Famous Authors

• The Broken Window by Eva Brick
• The Cliff Tragedy by Eileen Dover
• French Windows by Pattie O'Dors
• Forestry by Teresa Green
• Olympic Games by Arthur Letics
• How to Make Honey by B. Keeper
• Easy Money by Robyn Banks
• Gunfire by R. Tillery
• Long Walk by Miss D. Buss
• The Dogs' Dinner by Nora Bone
• A Hole in My Bucket by Lee King
• Falling Trees by Tim Burr
• How to Win by Vic Tree
• I Love Maths by Adam Upp and Ima Adder
• Snakes of the World by Anna Conda
• Natural Bust Enlargement by Mine Power

Silly Book Titles - Out of Print

Will and Guy are grateful that these silly books are currently out of print

• Overpopulation in France by Frances Crowded
• The World's Flood Plains by Noah Zark
• Sound as a Bell by Drop Clanger
• Why I Like Fish by Anne Chovie
• The Empty Biscuit Tin by Arthur Anymore
• Interior Decorating by Kurt N. Rodd
• Poisonous Plants by Dudley Nightshade
• Dockyards in Britain by Steve Dore
• How to Look Younger by Fay Sliftt
• Mexican Food by Monty Suma

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