Loose Spoons? We Got Your Book Right Here

In other prize news, The Bookseller has announced its shortlist of 2006's oddest UK book titles. Sadly, most of these titles are not yet available in the US.

• How Green Were the Nazis? edited by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier, Mark Cioc and Thomas Zeller
  
• D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans by Roger De Boer, Harvey Francis Pitcher, and Alan Wilkinson
  
• The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague
  
• Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan by Robert Chenciner, Gabib Ismailov, Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov and Alex Binnie
  
• Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium edited by Robert J Anderson, Juliet A Brodie, Edvar Onsoyen and Alan T Critchley
  
• Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence by David Benatar

I'm rooting for the seaweed myself, but word on the street is that you don't want to cross the ice cream guys. Coventry's a tough town.--David E