Sarah Knight has won the inaugural Adam Mansbach Redacted Book Title Prize, which honors the best use of asterisks in an obscenity-laced book title, for The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like. The judges praised the winner for its "creative and discreet new twist on traditional phrasing."
The award was founded to honor Adam Mansbach, whose 2011 mega-bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep (illustrated by Ricardo Cortés) set a new standard in the growing field of masked obscenities in book titles. The other shortlisted titles were F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems by Michael Bennett & Sarah Bennett; and Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said: Wit & Wisdom from America's Finest by Dan Caddy. --Robert Gray