Every year, starting in 1978, the well-known British magazine Bookseller holds a prize in the nomination "The funniest title of a book." This award is called Diagram. The competition involves librarians, publishers, and even book sellers. It is worth noting that the author cannot participate in this event. The winner receives a bottle of champagne, and the writer himself receives popularity and an increase in the sales rate of his work. We present to your attention a list of the most shocking titles of books that actually exist.
Funny Books Bookseller Diagram Award 1978-2018
1978. Materials of the second international conference on nude mice (proceedings of the second international workshop on nude mice).
1979. Madame as entrepreneur: career management in house prostitution.
1980. Chicken joys (the joy of chickens).
1981. Last chance at love - terminal romances (last chance at love - terminal romances).
1982. Population and other problems (population and other problems: family planning, housing 1,000 million, labor employment).
1983. Theory of longitudinal rolling.
1984. The book of marmalade: its antiquity and role in the modern world (the book of marmalade: its antecedents, its history, and its role in the world today).
1985. Natural bust enlargement with total power: how to increase the other 90% of your mind to increase the size of your breasts.
1986. Oral sadism and the vegetarian personality.
1987. Better never to have been: the harm of coming into existence).
1988. Versailles: a view from Sweden (versailles: the view from sweden).
1989. How to shit in the woods: how to shit in the woods: an environmentally sound approach to a lost art).
1990. Guide to safe lesbian sadomasochism safety manual.
1991. The genitals of male butterflies of the Balkan Peninsula with the application of a checklist of signs (male genitalia of butterflies of the balklan peninsula, with a checklist).
1992. How to avoid huge ships.
1993. Archeology of the American backsides (American bottom archaeology).
1994. Significant moments in the history of concrete (highlights in the history of concrete).
1995. Reusing old graves.
1996. Greek rural postmen and their cancellation numbers.
1997. The joy of sex: the pocket version (the joy of sex: pocket edition).
1998. Improving cow breeding: new opportunities to widen the use of straw.
1999. Weeds in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 64th Symposium (weeds in a changing world: British crop protection council symposium proceedings no.64).
2000. High performance stiffened structures - the use of stiffness in engineering design.
2001. Corporate service of murders (corporate manslaughter service).
2002. Living with crazy buttocks.
2003. The big book of lesbian horse stories.
2004. Bombproof your horse.
2005. People who don’t know they’re dead: how they attach themselves to unsuspecting bystanders and what to do about it).
2006. Eastern North America Street Carts: Field Guide (the stray shopping carts of eastern north america: a guide to field identification).
2007. If you want closure in your relationship, start with your legs.
2008. Tattooed mountain women and spoon boxes of daghestan.
2009. Metaphysics of baboons (baboon metaphysics).
2010. Knitting adventures with hyperbolic planes (crocheting adventures with hyperbolic planes).
2011. Manage a dental clinic in Chingiz Khan way (managing a dental practice: the genghis khan way).
2012. How to protect a chicken coop from goblins (Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop).
2013. How to Poo on a Date (How to Poo on a Date).
2014. Strangers always have tastier sweets (Strangers Have the Best Candy).
2015. Too Naked For The Nazis (Too Naked For the Nazis).
2016. A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Pigs when Time is your Most Precious Commodity.
2018. The Joy of Waterboiling).
And a few more examples from life:
Well, human imagination really has no limit. The most striking thing is that behind these elaborate and puny names are really worthwhile scientific works. This article will not only make you smile, but, most likely, will make you want to get acquainted with these literary masterpieces.
