Second Oddest Book Title Award for McFarland.

For the second year in a row, McFarland has nabbed the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title administered by The Bookseller with RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race, edited by Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry. Last year's winner was Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero by Roy Schwartz.

McFarland nabs 3 nominees for Oddest Book Title.

After last year's triumph with Is Superman Circumcised?, McFarland now has three nominees for this year's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title:

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  Jane Austen and the Buddha: Teachers of Enlightenment by Kathryn Duncan (I looked at the final proofs of this book, which is an interesting discussion of Buddhist concepts that appear in Austen's work).
  
  
• The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More. ed. Ron Riekki (for those who love clowns in the horror genre).
  
  
• RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race, ed. Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry

The other nominees are Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism by Michael Owen Jones (UP of Mississippi); Smuggling Jesus Back into the Church by Andrew Fellows (IVP); and What Nudism Exposes: An Unconventional History of Postwar Canada by Mary-Ann Shantz (U of British Columbia P).

Members of the public may cast their vote for the award (the deadline is November 26).

Update, December 10, 2022. The winning book is McFarland's RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race, ed. Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry

Oddest book title shortlist: Baboon Metaphysics.

The Bookseller has issued its short list for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title, and you can vote for your favorite:

Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth (U of Chicago P)

Curbside Consultation of the Colon by Brooks D. Cash (SLACK Inc.)

The Large Sieve and Its Applications by Emmanuel Kowalski (Cambridge UP)

Strip and Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski (C&T)

Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring by Lietai Yang (Woodhead)

The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Philip M. Parker (Icon Group Intl)

Weirdest book titles of the year.

Yet another list we need: The Bookseller magazine has selected its short list for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year:

• I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen
• How to Write a How to Write Book
• Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues (not to be confused with this Dorothy L. Sayers essay)
• Cheese Problems Solved
• If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs
• People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood

I adore last year's winner: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification.

The public can vote on these choices; go here for further details.

Hat tip to PhiloBiblos.