Look at the picture above.

What do you see?

I see the cover of the winner of the British trade magazine The Bookseller's Internet contest to choose the year's (2006) oddest title.

Runner-up was "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Dagestan," with third place honors going to "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence."

The winner, boosted by the news to #335 (with a bullet) at Amazon, costs $14.96 there.

The breaking news is featured in Lawrence Van Gelder's "Arts, Briefly" feature in today's New York Times.

His story follows.

Hot Titles

Here's a winning book title: "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification." It has been named the year’s oddest title by the British trade magazine The Bookseller after an Internet poll in which 5,500 votes were cast, the BBC reported. Written by Julian Montague, it attracted 1,866 votes, followed by "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Dagestan" and "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence." "We are delighted to reward a brilliant piece of niche publishing again this year," said Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller. Among the losers were "How Green Were the Nazis?" and "Proceedings of the 18th Annual Seaweed Symposium." Previous winners of the accolade, established in 1978, include "Versailles: The View From Sweden," "Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers" and "Reusing Old Graves."