Diagram prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year 2012 - in pictures

A Century of Sand Dredging in the Bristol Channel: Volume Two by Peter Gosson(Amberley Publishing)
Documents the sand trade from its inception in 1912 to the present day, focusing on the Welsh coast. Photograph: The Bookseller

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares (Phaidon)
An exhaustive overview of the evolution of the modern office chair. Photograph: The Bookseller

Cooking with Poo by Saiyud Diwong (Urban Neighbours of Hope)
Thai cookbook. “Poo” is Thai for “crab” and is chef Diwong’s nickname. Photograph: The Bookseller

The Great Singapore Penis Panic: And the Future of American Mass Hysteria by Scott D Mendelson (Createspace)
An analysis of the “Koro” psychiatric epidemic that hit the island of Singapore in 1967. Photograph: The Bookseller

Mr Andoh's Pennine Diary: Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge by Stephen Curry and Takayashi Andoh (Royd Press)
The story of Koichi Andoh, who travelled from Japan to Yorkshire in the 1930s to train workers at a hatchery business the art of determining the sex of one-day-old chicks. Photograph: The Bookseller

Estonian Sock Patterns All Around the World by Aino Praakli (Kirjastus Elmatar)
Sock and stocking styles in Estonian knitting. Photograph: The Bookseller

The Mushroom in Christian Art by John A Rush (North Atlantic Books)
Theorises that Jesus is the personification of the Holy Mushroom, Amanita Muscaria. Photograph: The Bookseller