I imagine this book award slipped by you: the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Sponsored by The Bookseller magazine, anyone can nominate a book title for this prize and votes by the public are tallied online. It has nothing to do with content and everything to do with, well, title oddity.

The Bookseller recently announced the 2008 winner – The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais – which beat out Baboon Metaphysics, Strip and Knit with Style, and Curbside Consultation of the Colon, among others.

So, in the spirit of the Diagram Prize, here are a few titles published in 2009 that I thought might be worthy of this illustrious award. Which one would you vote for? Or suggest another title in a comment below!

Forbidden Bread: A Memoir by Erica Johnson-Debeljak

The God Cookie by Geoffrey Wood

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Manslations: Decoding the Secret Language of Men by Jeff Mac

Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

Author

Angela Kille is a librarian at the Kansas City Public Library.