What a fantastic list! Our BEST yet!

We’re so lucky this year to have had such an amazing long list, and so our shortlist was bound to be brilliant. It was a massive task for our schools to get the long list down to just five titles, and boy was it close. One of these wonderful books had over 700 votes. 700!! And the rest were not far behind.

If you want to know how to vote, pop over to our voting page, where we explain everything. It’s not too difficult but you’d be amazed at how many people get it a bit wrong. And we want to make sure you get it 100% right, especially after all your hard work.