Every year, since 1978, the well-known British magazine Bookseller holds an award in the category "The funniest book title". This award is called Diagram. Librarians, publishers and even booksellers participate in the competition. It is worth noting that the author cannot participate in this event. The winner gets a bottle of champagne, and the writer himself gets popularity and an increase in the sales of his work. We present to your attention a list of the most shocking book titles that actually exist.
Funny Books Bookseller Diagram Award 1978-2018
1978. Proceedings of the second international workshop on nude mice.
1979. Madame as an entrepreneur: career management in a house prostitution (the madam as entrepreneur: career management in house prostitution).
1980. Chicken joy (the joy of chickens).
1981. Last chance at love - terminal romances.
1982. Population and other problems: family planning, housing 1,000 million, labor employment.
1983. The theory of lengthwise 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: the view from sweden.
1989. How to shit in the woods: an environmentally sound approach to a lost art.
1990. The lesbian sadomasochism safety manual.
1991. Male genitalia of butterflies of the balklan peninsula, with a checklist.
1992. How to avoid huge ships.
1993. American bottom archeology.
1994. Highlights in the history of concrete.
1995. Reusing old graves.
1996. Greek rural postmen and their cancellation numbers.
1997. The joy of sex: pocket edition.
1998. Improving cow breeding: new opportunities for using straw (developments in dairy cow breeding: new opportunities to widen the use of straw).
1999. Weeds in a changing world: british crop protection council symposium proceedings no. 64.
2000. High performance stiffened structures - about the use of stiffness in engineering design.
2001. 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. 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. Baboon metaphysics
2010. Crocheting adventures with hyperbolic planes.
2011. 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.
2014. Strangers Have the Best Candy.
2015. 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, there really is no limit to human imagination. The most striking thing is that behind these pretentious and punish names are really worthy scientific works. This article will not only make you smile, but, most likely, will make you want to read these literary masterpieces.