Thus designated, the below list of fourteen titles has apparently been circulating the country for some time by email. A header note claimed these are all genuine titles. Skeptical? Here’s a challenge: see how many you can find online or in standard bibliographic resources. Email me the results, and I’ll post the best scores. For the record, I found copy for ten (not always in a 1995 edition), and identified another as apparently bogus.

• Amputee Management : a Handbook.
• The Baby Jesus Touch and Feel Book.
• Big and Very Big Hole Drilling.
• The Book of Marmalade : Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today.
• Group 4 Prisoner Escort Service : a Survey of Customer Satisfaction.
• Highlights in the History of Concrete.
• How to Avoid Huge Ships.
• How to Shit in the Woods : an Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art.
• The Joy of Chickens.
• Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice : the Potentialities and Limitations of the Nude Mouse.
• Reusing Old Graves : a Report on Popular British Attitudes.
• Simply Bursting : a Guide to Bladder Control.
• Versailles : the View from Sweden.
• Virtual Reality : Exploring the Bra.

--submitted by Brian Kunde

Originally published in SUL News Notes, Volume 5, Number 27, July 25, 1996 [sic: actually July 26, 1996]. These titles reflect the compiler’s notions of the humorous, wry, ironic or unusual, and should not be construed as reflecting any other opinion or judgment, including the editorial opinion of the original publisher.