What is the new trending word “BookTok”?
You must be wondering what BookTok sounds familiar to Tiktok at the end but at the same time, it sounds different. It’s funny to say when the books meet TikTok there you get BookTok.
BookTok is another side of the social media platform where readers recommend, review about their favorite books, authors and genres. You might be wondering how I can get to BookTok? So,You can follow the actual BookTok hashtag, or interact with enough book-adjustment accounts to take note of your actual interests. What makes BookTok more special is that the readers’ taste and enthusiasm determine what goes viral on the algorithm, not only necessarily marketing money from publishers or authors. It can also create a kind of intimacy among users, like they’re getting recommendations from friends.
How do I get on BookTok?
You just need to access the TikTok app and follow the accounts that you find interesting for your reading habits. BookTok is simply a sub-community on TikTok, consisting of accounts that are dedicated to books and reading, so gaining access to it is quite easy.
Some of the best Booktok books in 2023
If you’re looking for an enchanting and romantic tearjerker, look no further than It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover. Or if you’re looking for Historical, romantic and psychological all at once, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the page-turner you need to read.
An old town to the natural world and coming of age, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens dreams up a story about a “Marsh Girl,” Kya, in a 1969 North Carolina coastal town. Mystery thriller lovers can’t get enough of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. If you’re one you can’t miss it.
A YA series, A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is the first of a four-book action-packed fantasy fiction collection and one of the most recommended too. The debut novel, Homegoing, is the poignantly and painfully beautiful Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
Dive head first into the spicy summer storylines with BookTok’s current obsession, Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman. They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but fans are obsessed not only with The aesthetic of Stolen by Lucy Christopher, but it is a captivating thriller plot as well.
Recently published sophomore poetry collection, Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong’s , is achingly beautiful as a tribute and discovery into grief after losing his mother. It shows personal relationships, the aftershocks of loss and immigration, while fearlessly experimenting with language and structure. The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown blends science fiction and horror in a classic alien suspense style story. It follows a space crew, helmed by Jacklyn Albright (nicknamed Jack) heading back to Earth after a failed colony mission.
When the BookTokers praised it for being inventive with the genre tropes, and for putting a Black girl at the helm of the story. It gained most popularity LEGEND BORN BY TRACY DEONN. Another is a cozy mystery romance that also happens to be set on Jupiter THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES BY MALKA ANN OLDER. Humans have made the gas giant habitable by creating a series of domed living spaces that connect to one another.
Best BookTok accounts
Colleen Hoover is the first among them, to the best-seller list. #ColleenHoover tags have been viewed more than 4.2 billion times, and her books have sold more than 24 million copies. ByteDance filed a trademark for a publisher in late April, describing it as a company that provides a range of book publishing products and services. According to sources, it would create an ecosystem where people could find, buy, read, review and discuss books.
One “genre” of BookTok is the storytelling videos are famous too. BookTok has its own take on this: the reader’s story will instantly catch your attention, they reveal that in fact the story didn’t happen to them, but to a character in a book. Some of the reader’s are @BAKER.READS, @ABBYS_LIBRARY3, @BASKINSUNS,@BOOKS.WITH.LEE, @CHELS_EBOOKS,@EARLGREYPLS,@KENDRA.READS,@PJANDBOOKS,@QUISPEAKS and @SCHIZOPHRENICREADS
Key Features of BookTok
Due to books being hard to sell physically, technicians have created BookTok, its main features are to publish new books and release it, now most of the books are getting sold out from BookTok. With more than 100 billion global views as of mid-January, #BookTok is one of TikTok’s most popular hashtags, the social platform reported. As an evident result, teens have been flocking to brick-and-mortar Barnes & Noble stores, filming clips of themselves with books and then buying them – sometimes 10 a month, according to Bloomberg Business. We’re talking hardbacks, too.
BENEFITS of BookTok
The main advantage of Booktok is that you can read most of the books free of cost, and which you can’t read you can still hear from the reader’s . So it’s always a win-win situation. Other advantages are it’s effortless and very friendly to use .
You can share with your friends and families. It has over thousands of books and reader’s.