Judging a Book by Its Cover
By Jenine Lillian, MLIS Day
As we enter the darker months and the fireside (or at least, close to the space heater) book reading season commences, I thought I'd give you a sampling of wacky-titled non-fiction to warm you. As always, remember these are actual books (I couldn't make this stuff up) and are available at your local library for your enjoyment.
- The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
- Hard-Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Noir Films
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes
- Getting It On: A Condom Reader
- Eccentric America: the Bradt guide to all that's weird and wacky in the USA
- Wacky Chicks: life lessons from fearlessly inappropriate and fabulously eccentric women
- Hacking Matter: levitating chairs, quantum mirages, and the infinite weirdness of programmable atoms
- Skin Tight: the bizarre story of Guess v. Jordache--glamour, greed, and dirty tricks in the fashion industry
- The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race
- Hide Your Assets and Disappear: a step-by-step guide to vanishing without a trace
- The perfect solution to absolutely everything
Send your strangely titled favorites to je9@u.washington.edu and you just might show up in Judging a Book by Its Cover.