How Green Were the Nazis, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America, and Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan are all in the running for The Bookseller magazine’s Oddest Title prize, according to a story on the BBC’s website. The prize – a bottle of champagne – is handed out by the magazine every year, the winner chosen by the public.
All of the shortlisted titles are non-fiction, interestingly enough, and seem to combine over-specificity with an eccentric subject. (For example: D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans.)
All, too, would not look out of place on a list of new releases from the McSweeney’s book imprint.
