Greek rural postmen beat nude mice, green Nazis to oddest book-title prize

It may not be a best-seller, but “Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers” has won a literary accolade: oddest book title of the past 30 years.

The book topped a poll to find the weirdest-ever winner of Britain’s Diagram Prize for unusually monickered volumes.

It beat previous winners including “Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice” and “How Green Were the Nazis?” in an online vote. The results were announced Friday by trade magazine The Bookseller, which organizes the prize.

The runner-up was “People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead.” Third place went to “How To Avoid Huge Ships.”

Source: AP (via Orlando Sentinel)

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