What’s BookTok? It’s one of the many niches of TikTok, devoted to all things books! TikTok users read, recommend and review books and rant and rave about literary tropes with favourite topics including enemies to lovers, found family, and right person wrong time. Check out some of these hot BookTok reads and don’t forget to follow KFPL’s TikTok, too!
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Adam Silvera wrote this YA science fiction book in 2017 but BookTok has kept it popular, with #TheyBothDieAtTheEnd collecting millions and millions of views. Ready for the prequel? Place your hold on First to Die at the End.
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Adam and Olive are in a fake but mutually beneficial relationship leading to a story full of many romance tropes popular with BookTok!
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications.
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Heartstopper started out as a web comic, and now this story about love, friendship, and mental illness is not just a BookTok fave, it’s a Netflix show!
Spy X Family 1 by Tatsuya Endo
An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A longtime BookTok top pick, this is another book that was published in 2017 but later found a huge audience online. Follow the wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet!
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
A shocking psychological thriller about a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and about the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
A piercing story of faith, science and the opioid crisis.
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
BookTokers are debating over the Lily-Ryle-Atlas love triangle in this romantic read. Want to know Atlas’s story? Place your hold on It Starts With Us.
