Weird Book Room

Welcome to AbeBooks' Weird Book Room - heralded by the New York Times, Canada's Globe and Mail, The Times of London, and The Guardian (UK) as the finest source of everything that's bizarre, odd and downright weird in books. Everyone's talking about it - author Neil Gaiman is even tweeting about it, posting a link and suggesting his followers: "Go to this link and gaze on the titles and be made happy. Trust me. It'll work". 

With new titles added periodically, we have an excellent selection of crazy and strange titles for sale by our booksellers, about every oddball aspect of life you could possibly imagine (and a few things you couldn't). Some of the selections are serious books, but out of context, the titles tickled our funny bones.

We invite you to not only revel in our collection of literary oddities but to also send us your suggestions.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted weird books!

Wonderfully Weird Books:

How to Cook for a Ghost

by Hope McIntyre

 

Extinct for a Reason

by Scott Cooney and Aaron Adler

 

SPAM: A Biography: The Amazing True Story of America's Miracle Meat!

by Carolyn Wyman

The Importance of Being Fuzzy

by Arturo Sangalli

 

My Parish is Revolting

by Norman Ellis

 

How to Avoid People

by B.A. Young

Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, and Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire

by Robert T. Clifton

 

Be Bold With Bananas

by the Banana Control Board

 

Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth

by Stephen Graham Jones

Bread Sculpture: The Edible Art

by Ann Wiseman

 

Practical Muskrat Raising

by E.J. Dailey

 

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

by Benjamin Franklin

Wildlife Contraception

by Cheryl S. Asa and Ingrid J. Porton

 

How God Gives Us Ice Cream

by Mary LeBar

 

Red Army Uniforms of World War II in Colour Photographs

by Anton Shalito, Ilya Sajvchenkov & Andrew Mollo

Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant

by Michael & Karan Feder

 

The Thermodynamics of Pizza

by Harold J. Morowitz

 

Knit the Christmas Story

by Jan Messent

How to be Danish

by Patrick Kingsley

 

Still Stripping After 25 Years

by Eleanor Burns

 

How to Sharpen Pencils

by David Rees

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America

by Julian Montague

 

Do-It-Yourself Coffins: For Pets and People

by Dale Power

 

Managing a Dental Practice the Genghis Khan Way

by Michael Young

Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop

by Reginald Bakeley

 

How Tea Cosies Changed the World

by Loani Prior

 

The Magic of Old Tractors

by Ian M. Johnston

A History of Thimbles

by Edwin F. Holmes

 

Catflexing: The Catlovers Guide to Weight Training, Aerobics and Stretching

by Stephanie Jackson

 

How to Poo on a Date: The Lovers' Guide to Toilet Etiquette

by Mats & Enzo

Fashion is Spinach

by Elizabeth Hawes

 

Mole Catching: A Practical Guide

by Jeff Nicholls

 

All About Pockets

by Christine Petrell Kallevig

What Makes Me Amish?

by Charles George

 

Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine

by Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller

 

Teach Your Wife to Be a Widow

by Donald I. Rogers

Fancy Goldfish Culture

by Frank W. Orme

 

Baboon Metaphysics

by Horace Bent

 

The Best Fences

by James Fitzgerald

Land Snails and Slugs of Russia and Adjacent Countries

by Alexander Sysoev and Anatoly Schileyko

 

Successful Muskrat Farming

by Robert G. Hodgson

 

Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots

by Peter York

How to Live with an Idiot: Clueless Creatures and the People Who Love Them

by John J. Hoover

 

The Strange Story of False Teeth

by John Woodforde

 

My Cat's in Love

by Frank Manolson

I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs

by Nigel Rees

 

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

by Catalin Avramescu

 

The Needlework Book of Bible Stories

by Carolyn Meyer

Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy?

by Louise Bates Ames

 

Encyclopaedia of Medical Ignorance

by Ronald Duncan and M. Weston-Smith

 

Ghosts: Minnesota's Other Natural Resource

by Brian Leffler

Electricity in Gynecology

by May Cushman Rice

 

How to Avoid Huge Ships

by John W. Trimmer

 

Glamour and the Hostess: A Guide to Canadian Table Setting

by Marie Holmes

English Smocks

by Alice Armes

 

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

by Doug Richmond

 

A Popular History of British Seaweeds

by Rev. D. Landsborough

Boy George Fashion & Make-Up Book

by Wayne Winder

 

The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure

by Joseph Jenkins

 

Toilet Paper Origami: Delight Your Guests with Fancy Folds and Simple Surface Embellishments

by Linda Wright

Exercises for Gentlemen

Sold Out

 

Dating for Under a Dollar

by Blair Tolman

 

People With Long Ears: A Practical Guide to Donkey-Keeping

by Robin Borwick

Crafting with Cat Hair

by Kaori Tsutaya

 

Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoonboxes of Daghestan

by Robert Chenciner,Gabib Ismailov and Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov

 

Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History

by Morton Satin

What Moles Tell You About Yourself

by Pietro Santini

 

Impeccable Birdfeeding

by Bill Adler Jr.

 

Beverly Hillbillies Bible Study

by Stephen Skelton

The Bible Cure for Irrritable Bowel Syndrome

by Don Colbert, MD

 

Gangsta Rap Coloring Book

by Aye Jay Moreno

 

Jewish Chess Masters on Stamps

by Felix Berkovich

Old Age, Its Cause and Prevention

by Sanford Bennett

 

Paint It Black: A Guide to Gothic Homemaking

by Francois Voltaire

 

Hanging Out: The Upside Down Exercise Book

by Ira J. Rappaport

Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants

by Dennis Okholm

 

How to Good-bye Depression

by Hiroyuki Nishigaki

 

Nuclear War: What's In It For You?

by Ground Zero Fund, Inc.

Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them

by Roger Welsch

 

Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire

by Jean Jefferies

 

Was Karl Marx A Satanist?

by Richard Wurmbrand

300 Hundred Ways to Serve Eggs from Appetizers to Zabaglione

by Ruth Berolzheimer (ed.)

 

Whittling

by Bill Higginbotham

 

People Who Don't Know They're Dead

by Gary Leon Hill

50 Sad Chairs

by Bill Keaggy

 

Outwitting Squirrels

by Bill Adler

 

All About Sausage

by Ellen Edwards

The Social History of the Machine Gun

y John Ellis

 

An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin

by Rohan Kriwaczek

 

The Pop-Up Book of Phobias

by Gary Greenberg

Sonya Fitzpatrick, Pet Psychic

by Sonya Fitzpatrick

 

How Green Were the Nazis?

by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier

 

International Book of Beer Can Collecting

by Richard Dolphin

Face Lifting by Exercise

by Senta Maria Runge

 

The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain

by John Joseph Meyer

 

The Great Pantyhose Crafts Book

by Ed and Stevie Baldwin

How To Survive a Robot Uprising

Daniel H. Wilson

 

The Art and Science of Embalming

by A.O. Spriggs

 

American Hair Metal

by Steven Blush

Teleportation: A How to Guide

by Tim Swartz

 

Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Mind Power

by Donald L. Wilson

 

The Joys of Jello

by General Foods Corp.

Maverick Cats

by Ellen Perry Berkeley

 

What Not to Wear on a Horse

by Ginny Oakley and Stephanie Soskin

 

The Manga Guide to Calculus

by Hiroyuki Kojima and Shin Togami