Diagram Prize: Oddest Book Titles of the Year battle it out | The Bookseller

Horace Bent, The Bookseller diarist and Diagram Prize administrator since 1982, referred to the shortlist as "one of the strongest in living memory".

"Once again readers from across the globe have scoured the bookshops and looked into the far-flung corners of the internet to suggest a raft of the peculiar, downright batty and unintentionally hilarious book titles," he said. "Our crack squad of judges - well, me, actually - have whittled the voluminous nominations down to this magnificent seven of a shortlist. And what a shortlist! One of the strongest in living Diagram Prize memory's something I really mean this year and am not saying it simply to pad out a press release."