An award for the best book titles? Goodreads has you covered

31 January 2023

Thirty-six books have been recognised by Goodreads in their unofficial best book title award, for, as the name suggests, books with unique and quirky titles. Winners, who are only accorded the honour and glory of being selected, were drawn from books published between August 2022 and January 2023. Here are a few titles to make the cut:

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, by Franny Choi
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, by Angie Cruz
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, by Baek Se-hee
What We Fed to the Manticore, by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize