--- 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. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-21T14:37:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:01.099Z og:title: And the oddest book title of 2014 is... og:description: Just in time for National Reading Month og:url: https://time.com/33425/this-book-won-an-award-for-oddest-title-of-the-year/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce668eee4d06fb03/6986869acd804d630acc9d96/9781853757822.jpg?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 9781853757822 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: And the oddest book title of 2014 is... twitter:description: Just in time for National Reading Month twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce668eee4d06fb03/6986869acd804d630acc9d96/9781853757822.jpg?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Oddest Book Title of the Year  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 21, 2014 2:37 PM UTC  Prion  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. 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). Take note of these works if you are looking for something unusual to read during National Reading Month. **MORE:** [The Worst Fictional Sex Scene of 2013](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/04/and-2013s-worst-fictional-sex-scene-is/) **LIST:** [For National Reading Month, 9 Things to Read in Under 9 Minutes](http://time.com/29729/national-reading-month-nine-great-things/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/33425/this-book-won-an-award-for-oddest-title-of-the-year/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/33425/this-book-won-an-award-for-oddest-title-of-the-year/"},"headline":"The Oddest Book Title of the Year","datePublished":"2014-03-21T14:37:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:01.099Z","description":"Just in time for National Reading Month.","url":"https://time.com/33425/this-book-won-an-award-for-oddest-title-of-the-year/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce668eee4d06fb03/6986869acd804d630acc9d96/9781853757822.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce668eee4d06fb03/6986869acd804d630acc9d96/9781853757822.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"9781853757822","caption":"","creditText":"Prion","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/33425/this-book-won-an-award-for-oddest-title-of-the-year/","name":"The Oddest Book Title of the Year"}}]}] ```