The Book of Trifles (ISBN 0-7541-1633-6), by James Williams, was a book of comic verse published in 2001. Owing to a series of unfortunate circumstances this book is no longer in print.

The poetry found within this book is singular in that it is neither true "poetry" in the common high-brow sense nor doggerel. This is due to its rhythmic perfection; each syllable leaping forth from the text with the perfect regularity of a well oiled machine-gun. The sentences are peculiar in their punctuation too, like prose sentences, with full-stops at the end; and consequently there is no need to capitalise the beginning letter of each line as is the norm in standard verse.

It must be remembered that it is not a serious book per se but its themes are at times serious ones.