The Bookseller - Comment - Philosopher Fish claims The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year

The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire earned 27% of the public vote, just ahead of How to Dungeon Master Parenting, which itself was a hair in front of Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women's Health Movement. With just five percentage points separating the top three, it is the closest Diagram race since the selection of the winner for the 46-year-old prize went to an online public vote 25 years ago. To forestall the inevitable legal challenges and conspiracy theorists bemoaning the outcome, I will say we have employed the most rigorous and impeccable election tabulating system available... within our budget. So, no Dominion Voting Systems, but your ol' pal Horace poring through some spreadsheets after his customary liquid lunch (I work better and more accurately after a few Courvoisiers).