Richard Adams Carey’s study of the caviar industry scores a narrow victory over How to Dungeon Master Parenting
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire has been crowned the winner of the Diagram prize for the oddest book title of the year.
Coming in a close second was How to Dungeon Master Parenting: A Guidebook for Gamifying the Child-Rearing Quest, Leveling Up Your Skills, and Raising Future Adventurers by Shelly Mazzanoble, with 24% of the vote. At 8% was Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them by Joseph M Bagley. Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western, edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K Johnson, Rebecca M Lush and Sara L Spurgeon, received the lowest vote share with 5%.
The Philosopher Fish was first published in 2005, but the 2024 edition contains enough new material that it was deemed eligible for inclusion in this year’s prize. A new epilogue details the current state of wild stocks of sturgeon, the fish from which caviar is harvested.
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