Best toilet books to keep you entertained in the bathroom

Since the global takeover of smartphones, lavatory literature has become a thing of the past.

Nowadays, suppose you so happen to enter a bathroom lined with stacks of weathered orange Penguin books. The sad likelihood is that they’ve been purchased second-hand for decorative rather than intellectual purposes.

Toilet roll holders featuring additional phone-sized shelves are more popular than ever, offering a handy solution for when your highly important personal business is complete. Dedicated phone sanitisers are hitting the market, not just to appease a post-Covid mindset around germs, but to offer a hygienic solution for those who can’t enter the powder room without a digital distraction.

At the same time, there appears to be a distinct disillusionment with our addiction to social media and short-form video entertainment. We lament how we have become reliant on scrolling at every waking moment and diagnose ourselves with various, consequential attention deficit