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The best of BookTok 2024
The #BookTok powers that be have spoken, these are the most viral books of 2024.
BookTok is chock-full of amazing book recommendations from readers of all tastes. For some, the thought of scrolling through reviews and building a TBR is exciting. Thrilling, even. For others, it’s a small nightmare. This is where we come in. To save you the trouble of creating an account or scrolling endlessly, we’ve rounded up the hottest BookTok recommendations of 2024.
Call It What You Want
Who doesn’t love the page-turning, heart-wrenching roller coaster of an almost love story? Sloane Hart's senior year of college is sure to be the best one yet. With graduation so close, she just needs to focus on landing a job and enjoying this last year with her best friends all under one roof. Enter Ethan Brady. He's tall, mysterious, handsome, and he’s officially turned Sloan’s world upside down. But Ethan's hurtful past, and the walls he’s built to protect himself, are keeping Sloane out. As their chemistry and connection intensify, Sloane finds herself falling deeper and deeper, but will Ethan ever be ready to catch her?
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Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors’s debut novel, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, took BookTok by storm when it dropped in 2022 and left fans desperate for more from the author. Mellors delivered with Blue Sisters, which follows sister trio Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky as they navigate the loss of their fourth sister, Nicky. While alike genetically, the Blue sisters couldn’t be more different from each other, and as they reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.
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Butcher & Blackbird
BookTok loves a trope, and Butcher & Blackbird delivers some of the most beloved by romance readers; friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, one bed, he falls first... the list goes on. A chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan—the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. The two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. But as their friendship develops into something more, the ghosts left in their wake are ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match?
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Next of Kin
Hannah Bonam-Young has taken up residence as one of BookTok’s favourite romance authors thanks to her earnest, approachable love stories. Next of Kin is her most recent fan favourite, blending humour, heat, and heart. Chloe and Warren may have clashing personalities, but they have one thing in common: they are both trying to get custody of their younger siblings. With Child Protective Service’s financial evaluation standing in their way, the two decide to participate in CPS’s new initiative, where two prospective guardians join households to qualify. From the moment Warren drives up (thirty minutes late, blasting music) Chloe is convinced that this is a very bad idea. But as their lives intertwine Chloe begins to see a new, softer side of Warren. Chemistry soon intensifies, but is their mutual attraction worth risking everything they’ve fought for?
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Good Boy
Probably because the Olympics took place in the city of love, suddenly BookTok is full of sports romances. Professional athlete romances are one of the hottest genre trends to come out of BookTok this year, and Elle Kennedy and Sarina Bowen are genre royalty. Good Boy follows Jess Canning, the very stressed our host of her brother's wedding for an MVP guest list. Already the family screw-up, she can't afford to fail at this, too. Especially after the colossal mistake she made with the best man during a weak moment last spring. For Blake Riley, this wedding is a gift from fate itself. The girl he has his eye on is the maid of honour, and he's the best man. So what if Jess is giving him a little—fine, a lot—of resistance? He just needs to convince her that he's really a good boy with a bad rap. Luckily, every professional hockey player knows that you've got to make an effort if you want to score. And Jess is just the girl he wants to win.
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Consider Me
Consider Me is another hockey-themed romance Booktokkers are obsessing over, and the first of a four-book series, in case you’re really looking to get swept up in the genre. The story follows NHL hot shot Carter Beckett as his happily single existence is thrown into question when he meets schoolteacher Olivia Parker. Unfortunately for Carter, Olivia is all too familiar with professional hockey players, thanks to her best friend's boyfriend, and has absolutely no interest in dating one herself... no matter how hot he is. She has better things to do than spend her time stroking the ego of an arrogant athlete. Carter will have to seriously up his game if he’s going to win the girl of his dreams.
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Two Twisted Crowns
The first book in Rachel Gillig’s The Shepherd King series, One Dark Window, took FantasyTok by storm, and book number two has readers equally obsessed. In Two Twisted Crowns we find the kingdom in peril, gripped by a tyrant king and in the thrall of dark magic. Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last—and most important—one remains to be found: the Twin Alders. If they’re going to find the card before Solstice and set free the kingdom, they will need to journey through the dangerous mist-cloaked forest. The only one who can lead them through is the monster that shares Elspeth’s head: the Nightmare. And he’s not eager to share any longer.
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The Women
Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale is widely celebrated on BookTok, landing on a lot of readers’ “Books I wish I could read again for the first time” lists. And rightfully so. This year, The Women stormed onto TBRs and Best Of lists thanks to Hannah’s masterful ability to blend history and heart. The Women follows twenty-year-old Frankie McGrath who steps outside her sheltered conservative upbringing to join the Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam. In war, she meets—and soon becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost, experiencing love, loss, life, and death amidst the chaos and destruction. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget.
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The Seven Year Slip
If this book hasn’t come across your TikTok FYP, are you even on BookTok? Overworked book publicist Clementine has a perfectly planned future: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. But Clementine’s plan hits a snag when she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. A man she could, just maybe, fall in love with. Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.
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The Pumpkin Spice Cafe
Want to know what puts the *spice* in pumpkin spice? This book. Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, and Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start. Logan is a grumpy-but-gorgeous local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her. Spicy small town found-family vibes abound, serving up a big old mug of heart-warming deliciousness.
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Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez is beloved on Booktok. You’ll have a tough time scrolling without someone recommending one of her romcoms. Jimenez’s newest release, Just for the Summer, is finding its way onto every Booktokker’s TBR. Justin and Emma are complete strangers with one thing in common: they are cursed when it comes to love. Together, they come up with a plan to cancel out each other’s curses . The plan? Date and break up. But what’s supposed to be a quick fling becomes a lot more when real life gets in the way. Or is it fate?
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Powerless
Would we be talking about Booktok if we weren’t talking about Romantasy? Obviously not. The series capturing everyone’s hearts this year is a YA trilogy from Lauren Roberts. Powerless follows the forbidden, slow-burn romance between a Kai Azer, a powerful prince and Paedyn Gray, an ordinary girl as they try to survive their kingdom’s grueling laws pitting them against each other. The series is currently made up of two books, with the much-anticipated third due out in early July.
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Funny Story
Since Emily Henry’s 2023 release of Happy Place, Booktok has been waiting with bated breath for her next book. Funny Story dropped at the end of April to no one’s surprise, it is everywhere. The novel follows Daphne and Miles, a pair of opposites with two things thing in common: they’re roommates, and their exes fell in love with each other. While drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan to post deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together. But it’s all just for show, because there’s no way Daphne would fall in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex… right?
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Magnolia Parks
It’s rare that a self-published novel goes completely viral, but thanks to TikTok, Magnolia Parks did just that. Now a full-fledged five-book universe, the series has more fans than ever. In a Gossip Girl style, Magnolia Parks follows the lives of an extremely wealthy group of friends living in London, and the will-they-won't-they love story of Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballantine.
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No Hard Feelings
Considering the virality of Fleabag and literally everything Dolly Alderton writes, it’s no surprise that a novel described as a mix of the two is Booktok’s new beloved. In No Hard Feelings we meet hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed Penny and follow her through the hilarity and awkwardness of adulting and finding oneself.
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir
BookTok loves two things: therapy and adorable book covers. With I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, we get both. The memoir chronicles Baek Sehee’s dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, on which she expands with her own reflective micro-essays.
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Bride
BookTok romcom darling Ali Hazelwood has dipped her toe into the paranormal world and readers are loving it. While the premise of The Love Hypothesis and Bride couldn’t be more different, Hazelwood’s knack for capturing the hearts of readers remains steadfast. This paranormal romance details the dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf that quickly becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into.
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