Serious readers looking for more information may be turned off by the overpowering hyperbole, the eclectic selection of topics, and the giddy leaps from one to another.
The nominations were revealed by BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ Nick Grimshaw, who also had praise for the eclectic selection.
The eclectic selection includes everything from what's readily available at retail chains to such finds as the occasional first edition of a book signed by its author.
The eclectic selection and cheerfully macabre décor — a papier-mâché mummy watches from the ceiling pipes — were chosen by the store's owner, a magician who goes by the name Rogue.
The eclectic selection of accommodations includes some unhotel-like solarium-windowed Starlight rooms on the top floor.
The owner, Piedad Aguilar Izquierdo, prides herself on finding the latest talent and is constantly adding to the eclectic selection of tasteful daytime dresses, pants, tops and jackets.
The eclectic selection of monuments in New York includes Potter's Field on Hart Island, Balto the dog in Central Park, temporary memorials of 9/11 and the Irish Hunger Memorial.
And the eclectic selection at the two-storey Soho boutique makes it easy.
The rather eclectic selection are the books that have been downloaded on BitTorrent between 100,000 and 250,000 times this year.
You may come back disappointed, but at least you get to be disappointed by a challenging, eclectic selection that you wouldn't see gathered together anywhere else.
