Odd book title captures prize

“If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs” has won the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of 2007, the Bookseller magazine announced Friday.

Big Boom, the apparently pseudonymous author, calls it a “self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women.”

The title triumphed in a public vote over runner-up “I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen” and the third-place finisher, “Cheese Problems Solved.”

Past winners include “Weeds in a Changing World” (1999), “The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories” (2003), “Bombproof Your Horse” (2004) and “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” (2006).