The Pornographic Delicatessen: Midcentury Montréal's Erotic Art, Media, and Spaces by Matthew Purvis won the Bookseller Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year "in the closest race in the world's most august literary gong since the prize moved to a public vote 25 years ago." There is no award for the winning author or publisher. Traditionally, a passable bottle of claret is bestowed on the nominator of the winning title.
The winner's margin was just two votes, topping the early bookies' favorite Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder by two votes and Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences by four votes. The Pornographic Delicatessen is just the second Canadian-published title to win a Diagram, joining 2020 winner A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society.