World's Oddest Book Titles

[Gumshoe]

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/53656-oddest-book-titles-prize-shortlist-announced.html

The shortlist:
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

More details on the site.

[Mags]

My favorite title is from a book by the absolutely unparalled Daniel Pinkwater:

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

[WRITEFX]

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/53...announced.html

The shortlist:
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

More details on the site.

I used to live near Sunny Southend and can't see why that book made it into the unusual title list.

http://www.sarfend.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl

[kelly]

My favorite title is from a book by the absolutely unparalled Daniel Pinkwater:

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

I'm a fan too. One of the best for-young-people-but-adults-will-love-it-too books ever.

[Robert Linford]

Southend featured in one of my favourite newspaper headlines, front page of the "Sun" about 20 years ago :

Werewolf seized in Southend."

[TimeRover]

"Cooking with Pooh: Yummy Tummy Cookie Cutter Treats"

I kid you not.

Or here's a few more

I'd love to read the second on the list.

TimeRover

[Howard Brown]

Number 9 is my autobiography.

Who do I sue for plagiarism?

[TimeRover]

Number 9 is my autobiography.

Who do I sue for plagiarism?

Ah darn, I figured it was #3.

TimeRover

[Howard Brown]

Jana:

Actually, I didn't have the noive to mention that the book on ingenuous uses for tampons has been on my coffee table for some time now.

Like the next person, I'll make the obligatory oboe or flute out of 'em....or maybe a chic cigarette holder ( for when I take Nina to high class jernts like Dallesandros Steaks ) to impress the "little people".

Even when walking the sands of Atlantic City, one usually finds 'em washed up on shore ( Thats why we call 'em Jersey Beach Whistles ovah heah...). Its quite tranquil,actually, to sit on the sands...let the Sun beat down on yer back....with a surgical knife and about a dozen of dese babies to carve away an afternoon.

My next project will be to get about 10 of 'em and make my own replica of Easter Island and let 'em stand on the edge of Avalon Beach, down there in South Jersey.

P.S. Jana.....I meant to put number 10 ( the one on the making of a moron ) but put number 9 instead. See...I told ya its my autobiography.

[WRITEFX]

Southend featured in one of my favourite newspaper headlines, front page of the "Sun" about 20 years ago :

Werewolf seized in Southend."

I'd forgotten all about that story. What was it about?

[Cogidubnus]

Scouts in Bondage

Now this is one I just have to recommend...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scouts-Bond.../dp/1845131967

Dave

[Robert Linford]

Garden of Eden : Granny Smith denies collusion.

[Gary Barnett]

Rum, Bum and Concertina, George Melly’s autobiography.

[Adam Went]

"How To Hypnotise Chooks" by Max Walker:

http://www.maxwalker.com.au/writer-max/book-shelf/how-to-hypnotise-cooks-by-max-walker/

Cheers,
Adam.

[Sam Flynn]

Some gems here, including perennial best-sellers "How To Avoid Huge Ships" and "Cheese Problems Solved".

https://www.fastprint.co.uk/blog/101-most-ridiculous-book-titles-ever-published.html

Some of them were deliberately named with double-meanings (e.g. Christopher Hitchens' "The Missionary Position", which I've read), but most are unintentional howlers.