MelissaA
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Shilpa Karhik
Weirdest Book Award
April 24th 2007 00:25
It won the Oddest Book Title of the Year category after it was voted for online.
In a competition that has been running in the UK now for 29 years, "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification" by Julian Montague was awarded the title.
Second place was awarded to "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan".
Last year's winner was "People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It".
The Bookseller, who runs the awards has awarded the prize in the past to books such as: "How To Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art" and "Weeds in a Changing World".
When the competition began in 1978, the winner was "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice."
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