YOU CAN JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS TITLE

After 5,500 votes at TheBookseller.com we have a winner for the Oddest Book Title of 2006. Author Julian Montague grabs this year’s prize with the book “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification.” This book easily beat out this year’s second place entry, “Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan.” 2006’s short list also included the books “How Green Were the Nazis?” and “Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium .”