What are you reading?

Each year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is enlivened by the Bookseller/Diagram competition to find the oddest title of the year. Previous winners have included Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice; Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers; The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition; How to Shit in the Woods, an Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art; Highlights in the History of Concrete; Living with Crazy Buttocks; and People Who Don't Know They´re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It. Among those shortlisted this year are How Green Were the Nazis?; Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium; The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: a Guide To Field Identification; and Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan.