A dubious distinction will be made on Nov. 30th -- which of this year's novels has the worst, most redundant sex scenes in the world?

The nominees for the Bad Sex in Fiction award, whose previous winners include Tom Wolfe, AA Gill and Sebastian Faulks, have been named. And no matter what you think of the woman-dominated genre of romance novels, only one woman is included out of the 10 authors short-listed for this "award" -- Sanjida O'Connell for "The Naked Name of Love."

There are quite a few nominees you'll recognize this year: Philip Roth, Nick Cave and Paul Theroux among them. And Nick Cave, at least, is feeling pretty good about the nomination. "Frankly we would have been offended if he wasn't shortlisted," a spokeswoman for Cave told "The Guardian."

So now here's the question: How many of the books nominated will see an uptick in sales thanks to this announcement? I have to admit, I'm a little more curious now as to exactly how bad "The Death of Bunny Munro" and "The Humbling" could be ... 

I'm just glad I'm not on the nominating committee that has to read all those books, plus the ones that didn't quite make the cut.