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January 27th 2007

Odd Book Titles

Here is the shortlist of the books judged to have the oddest titles. Choose a title below and send us in your suggestion of how you think the book may begin. Click here to send us your contribution. Alexander McCall Smith will judge the winner on Wednesday.

- How Green Were the Nazis?

- D. Di Mascio¹s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry‹An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans

- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification

-Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan

- Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium

- Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence


Here are some suggestions sent in by Today Listeners 


- Sodonmy and the Pirate Tradition'by B.R.Burg published by New York University Press in 1984.
suggested by Paul

- Truncheons: Their romance and reality by Erland Fenn Clark, Herbert Jenkins Press, 1935.
suggested by Robin

- Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying
suggested by Terry

- Listening to the Silences
suggested by Roy C. Vincent

- A token for children: being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives, and joyful deaths of several young children. To which is now added prayers and graces, fitted for the use of little children  by James Janeways in 1709
suggested by Rebecca Probert

-The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play  By Ben Watson
suggested by Nigel Bell

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