And the nominees for oddest book title of the year are:

• How Green Were the Nazis?
• Proceedings of the 18th International Seaweed Symposium
• The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
• Tattooed Mountain Woman and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
• Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: Di Mascio of Coventry, an Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans
• Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

Those six titles will contend for the 29th annual Bookseller-Diagram Prize, sponsored by The Bookseller, the U.K.-based publishing industry trade magazine.

Four other titles which would have been nominees except they were published before 2006 were:

• The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales, Vol. 1
• Let’s Discover F Words
• Celebrating Boxes
• A General Analysis of the Counting Methods of Chopped Yarrow Stalks in the Book of Changes

Of course you remember last year’s winner, People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.

This isn’t some fancy-schmancy juried contest, either. The public can vote at The Bookseller’s Web site. The “winner” will be announced April 13.

(Via CBC.)