--- title: Oddest Book Title Diagram Prize Awarded to How to Poo on a Date description: Magazine gives award for oddest book title to a book called How to Poo on a Date. canonical: https://time.com/33425/this-book-won-an-award-for-oddest-title-of-the-year/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman Staff Writer Mar 21, 2014 2:37 PM UTC A book called _How to Poo on a Date_ has won [the 2014 Diagram Prize](http://www.thebookseller.com/news/how-poo-date-wins-diagram-prize.html) for the oddest book title of the year, an annual distinction awarded by _The_ _Bookseller_, a business magazine that covers the book industry. Written by Mats & Enzo and published by Prion, the book beat out other offbeat titles such as _Are Trout South African?_ by Duncan Brown, _Working Class Cats: The Bodega Cats of New York City_ by Chris Balsiger and Erin Canning, and _Pie-ography: Where Pie Meets Biography_ by Jo Packham. [Past winners](http://www.thebookseller.com/feature/diagram-prize-winners.html) of the Diagram Prize — which dates back to 1978 — include _Bombproof Your Horse_ (2004) by Lauren Tjaden and Rick Pelicano, _The Joy of Chickens_ (1980), and _The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification_ (2006). 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