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Oddest Book Title Prize Draws Record Number Of Submissions

Posted at 7:51AM Friday 05 Feb 2010

The annual Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year has drawn a record number of submissions for the 2009 award, announced prize organizer Horace Best.

In allowing submissions to be made via Twitter, 90 submissions were received for the 2009 award - up from 32 in 2008 - although various disqualifications bring the total number of eligible titles is 49.

Independent

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