Wikipedia:Today's featured list/February 18, 2013
The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year is a humorous literary award that is given annually to the book with the oddest title. The prize is named after the Diagram Group, an information and graphics company based in London, and The Bookseller, a British trade magazine for the publishing industry. Originally organised to provide entertainment during the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair, the prize has since been awarded every year by The Bookseller and is now organised by the magazine's diarist Horace Bent. The winner was initially decided by a panel of judges, but since 2000 the winner has been decided by a public vote on The Bookseller's website. Controversy arose since the creation of the awards; there have been two occasions when no award was given because no titles were judged to be odd enough, a person has complained about some of the winners chosen by the public, and the 2008 winner proved controversial because rather than being written by its listed author, it was instead written by a machine of the author's invention. The most recent winner, in 2012, was Cooking with Poo by Saiyuud Diwong. The subjects covered by the winning books have varied widely; winners have included The Book of Marmalade by C. Anne Wilson, Living with Crazy Buttocks by Kaz Cooke, and Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina (pictured). (Full list...)