BookTok is a community on TikTok that brings together readers and writers who are passionate about literature and books. Typically interacts with a hashtag, readers who use the hashtag “#booktok” post videos of recommendations, reviews, and discussions of books.

Those videos can be engaging and convince viewers to read a certain book or inspire them to read more. Readers and writers can benefit a lot from BookTok, and help explore more of your favorite genre, but also learn new genres.

Research has shown that they have seen a 25% increase in sales in the adult fiction genre. Along with that, BookTok has helped lead an overall growth of 9% in the US print book market.

Here are the latest must-read books, according to BookTok:

• “Bride” by Ali Hazelwood
• “ The Mystery Guest” by Nita Prose
• “Funny Story” by Emily Henry
• “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• “Cross Roads” by Devney Perry
• “Verity” by Colleen Hoover

Vera Fombu, a senior, said, “I definitely got inspiration from BookTok. I read ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ since I saw it as a recommendation from a video.”

Emily Dormer, a senior, said, “ The book recommendations aren’t as good as they seem to be talked about.”