The inaugural WBTL Awards 2026 will be coming soon…
Awards:
- Book of the year: for the outright best read this year
- The thank goodness I never have to read that again award: for the book that might win you kudos on Goodreads but wasn’t exactly your cup of tea
- The what on earth did I just read award: for the most bewildering, disorienting, gloriously incomprehensible reading experience of the year
- Open nomination for best quote: for your favourite quote – whether inspiring or ridiculous.
Eligible books for 2026:
- Times Arrow by Martin Amis
- Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
- Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
- Two girls One Fat One Thin by Mary Gaitskill
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- Island by Aldous Huxley
- The dead by James Joyce
- Ice by Anna Kavan
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- Weep not child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- The Corner the Held them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Summer by Edith Wharton