I’ve been an avid reader for almost my entire life. Since childhood, you’ll often find me with a nose in a novel during down time in my schedule. I’ll also admit that sometimes the books I read aren’t exactly highbrow. I mean, I grew up reading cheesy sci-fi/fantasy, so I’m quite familiar with terrible-but-awesome tomes. Some titles, however, look too awful to even pick up. Like these 19 strange vintage library books!

OK: being a professed semi-crazy cat lady, I suppose I would at least flip through that title up top. And the “My Beautiful Mommy” book, which is about explaining getting plastic surgery to your kid, would certainly be a hoot to read. (Though it may also make me lose a little bit or faith in humanity.) I guess what this collection shows us is that for every One Hundred Years of Solitude, there’s a Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction that someone will pick up instead. And that’s okay, because such titles make life just a little funnier. And you can head on over to the source to see even more of them! [via Awful Library Books]

Which of these is funniest?