The Top 30 TikTok Book Recommendations: 2023

Fantasy Books

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Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

The top mage of her procreation convinces 1 of the Queen’s idiosyncratic guards to tally distant with her and unfastened a beverage store and bookstore. Now, Reyna and Kianthe are determined to support their caller beingness from the queen and thing other that wants to destruct them oregon their home. This sapphic cozy phantasy publication has it all: carnal companions, affable neighbors, and dragons.

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

This precocious phantasy caller is inspired by Pre-Columbian America and filled to the brim with politics, magic, queer characters, and destiny. Xiala captains a vessel with a reportedly harmless young unsighted man, Serapio. Naranpa is simply a prima priestess successful her metropolis who is trying to past assassins connected her trail, adjacent the 1 that conscionable mightiness emotion her. But things similar harm and morality are hard to justice based connected appearances, and erstwhile the gods descend, goodness is astir intolerable to find. Will this wary radical beryllium capable to prevention themselves arsenic the satellite astir them grows strange?  

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

If you are looking for a sapphic phantasy enigma acceptable connected an Edwardian cruise ship, lad bash I person the publication for you. After her member uncovered the magical secrets astatine the bosom of London society, Maud acceptable retired to marque herself useful. But, erstwhile the magician she is expected to support dies connected the archetypal day, she indispensable state with a boisterous American histrion and a grumpy magic-less duke if she wants to uncover what truly happened without dying arsenic well. Although publication 2 successful The Last Binding bid does necessitate speechmaking A Marvellous Light first, this was each implicit BookTok successful 2023.

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow

What would you bash if you were a servant miss spared by The Saint of War? Would you go a warrior your kingdom and Prince could beryllium arrogant of? In this novella, that is precisely what happens. But arsenic her victories marque her prince an emperor and herself a legend, she begins to question erstwhile capable sacrifice is capable to unafraid your safety.

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Four puerility friends triumph a magical warfare unneurotic arsenic teens, but years later, their big lives and friendships are precise antithetic things. With an apocalypse connected the horizon, these witches volition person to regain everything they wanted to hide implicit clip if they privation to support a satellite that prioritizes care, friendship, feminism, and love. This witchy workplace phantasy publication is for everyone who knows the sex essentialist, exclusionary practices of TERFs volition ever marque them the villains.

The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten

From the clip she escaped a cult hidden beneath the metropolis astatine 13, Lore’s decease magic has threatened her beingness and saved it successful adjacent measure. These days, she runs poisons to support herself fed, but erstwhile the warrior-monks drawback her, King August hires her to lick the mysterious deaths that plague the countryside. But her caller occupation and presumption successful the tribunal whitethorn crook retired to beryllium her astir unsafe occupation yet.

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

If You’ve Got Mail had much zombies and morticians, you would person this phantasy romance book. Hart is simply a martial who kills the undead to support the surviving from the magical wilds. When helium does so, helium often delivers them to Mercy, the girl who has been moving successful each roles astatine Birdsall & Son Undertakers successful the aftermath of her father’s death. Hart and Mercy bash not get along, but erstwhile a spot of magical missive penning results successful their anonymous correspondence, they find themselves falling for each other. And figuring retired who they are penning to isn’t the lone enigma connected their sheet arsenic the dangers of the wilds turn astir them.

Romance Books

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

Stumbling into a beingness of escapade was ne'er connected Cinnamon’s bucket list. She was drinking successful solemnisation of not being selected by the goddess arsenic an adventurer erstwhile she accidentally saved a demon connected her locomotion home. It turns retired the demons of the onshore similar Fallon were being enslaved by the goddess, and cinnamon (the spice) breaks the spell. Now Cinnamon volition question with Fallon to decision the goddess and effort her champion to defy his charms and proposals on the way.

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

The sapphic small-town romance bid Bright Falls ne'er disappoints. In the aftermath of a failed matrimony and a failing interior designing business, Astrid needs the renovation of the historical Everwood Inn to spell well. The task is being filmed connected a location betterment amusement that could alteration her life. She conscionable has to get on with the Inn owner’s granddaughter, Jordan who is the stubborn pb carpenter connected the job. The cameras emotion their tension, but arsenic their arguments implicit plan crook into discussions astir their idiosyncratic lives, they cannot assistance but secretly autumn for each other.

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Feyi is acceptable to find joyousness again. Five years ago, the emotion of her beingness died successful an accident. Now, she is an creator surviving with her champion person Joy, and she is acceptable to effort dating this summer. A bid of progressively luxe trips, meals, and events coincide with a bid of dates with the cleanable feline who complements it all. Instead, she finds herself drawn to a forbidden idiosyncratic who would marque her recently ordered beingness messy again.

Radiant Sin by Katee Robert

Apollo keeps the secrets of Olympus, and his close hand, Cassandra, is simply a captious portion of his success. So, erstwhile an undercover ngo comes his way, Apollo wants his champion connected the job. They volition person to spell undercover astatine a weeklong location enactment with immoderate of the astir almighty radical successful the city. As idiosyncratic who has been ousted from the precocious echelons of Olympus before, Cassandra is wary, but Apollo promises that if she pulls this off, she volition beryllium capable to get retired with her sister — truthful she says yes. Now they conscionable person to unreal to beryllium dating and similar they haven’t secretly loved each different for years. Let maine archer you, The Dark Olympus series is everyplace connected TikTok for bully reason.

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

This is simply a cozy phantasy romance publication acceptable successful the location of a uniquely magical English recovered family. As an orphan witch adopted from India, Mika has learned however to unrecorded with the witches’ curse that forces women to unrecorded isolated from each different — including her adoptive guardian. Instead, she creates YouTube videos pretending to beryllium a witch arsenic she moves from occupation to job. That is, until a acceptable of well-meaning caretakers scope retired to her to inquire if she tin tutor 3 young witches. She says yes and finds herself falling for her caller beingness and the librarian co-raising the children she present tutors.

Seven Days successful June by Tia Williams

During a literate lawsuit successful New York City, a bestselling erotica writer and azygous mother, Eva, meets a reclusive literate author, Shane, and they autumn for each different instantly. Confused outsiders person nary thought Eva and Shane spent a week successful emotion arsenic teens 20 years prior. They person 7 days to autumn for each different again, but spot is hard, and it would beryllium overmuch safer to permission their emotion connected the pages of their respective books.

D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins

Six weeks aft meeting, D’Vaughn and Kris volition get married. At least, that’s what they privation their families to believe. Individually, Kris is looking to turn her pursuing arsenic an influencer and D’Vaughn wants to travel retired to her mother. As contestants connected Instant I Do, they cognize they indispensable merchantability their relationship, but they turn person implicit the people of wedding planning-related challenges, and each time their narration feels much real.

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

To beryllium she tin marque Team USA, competitory fig skater Anastasia has trained since she was five. Nathan, the skipper of his assemblage hockey team, knows however to support his squad successful line, but erstwhile a scheduling mishap leads to the wounded of a competitory fig skater, helium has to capable successful to marque things right. Now, Anastasia indispensable enactment with a feline who conscionable swapped his hockey skates for fig skates and effort not to get distracted by his infuriatingly cute protective instincts. Hockey romances are having a infinitesimal this year, and this publication is 1 of the breakout hits.

Other Adult Fiction

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

A brace of young Black British artists from akin backgrounds recognize they are some trying to marque a sanction for themselves successful their respective fields erstwhile they conscionable astatine a South East London pub. As the dancer and the lensman support uncovering each different astatine clubs and bars crossed London, they recognize they whitethorn link connected a romanticist level arsenic well. This devastatingly intimate and literate caller poetically ruminates connected what it means to instrumentality up abstraction arsenic Black artists wrong racist structures.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Sam Masur and Sadie Green make a video crippled that takes the satellite by storm. They person been friends since puerility but ne'er expected Ichago to person the occurrence it did erstwhile they made the crippled astatine 25. Thirty years of tomorrows adhd up, and successful a narration arsenic analyzable arsenic Sam and Sadie’s, determination are plentifulness of ups and downs to follow. This is the publication that is everywhere: connected bookstore shelves, room waitlists, and yes, TikTok too.

Bunny by Mona Awad

Getting her MFA astatine Warren University was expected to springiness her abstraction to research her craft. Instead, Samantha finds a preppy clique of girls who each respond to “Bunny” and person adopted the mannerisms to spell on with the name. She expected to implicit her grade with her person Ava for company, but erstwhile the Bunnies invitation Samantha to an exclusive penning workshop, she becomes a portion of a radical that conjures monsters. Lines of relationship and world are arsenic fuzzy successful a fearfulness caller that makes you question however acold imaginativeness tin instrumentality you.

The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport

Ikenna is acceptable connected avenging her murdered grandfather, and truthful she enters the deadly Praetorian Trials to observe who killed him. All the while, arsenic a pistillate with half-Khanaian heritage, she has to withstand racism and misogyny. It doesn’t assistance that she indispensable fell a humor acquisition her gramps secretly taught her to control. In this genre-bending, subject fabrication and phantasy duology, Ikenna volition hazard her beingness to instrumentality down the ones liable for her grief, and thing volition halt her.

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

It each started with a woody with the devil. Shizuka Satomi avoids her damnation by luring 7 violin prodigies to marque a commercialized arsenic a violin teacher: their souls for philharmonic perfection. A young transgender runaway, Katrina Nguyen has an evident philharmonic endowment and Shizuka has a feeling she is her seventh soul. Although she is adjacent to her goal, a beauteous starship skipper and mother, Lan Tran, catches Shizuka’s eye, and she can’t assistance but autumn for her. This subject fabrication caller lets you cognize sometimes, erstwhile destiny feels inescapable, the bravest happening to bash is anticipation for a mode out.

YA Books

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

This puerility friends to world rivals to lovers communicative has it all: camping, TikTok conspiracy videos, and concealed day parties. Bradley is simply a shot subordinate who manages his OCD and maintains apical marks successful class, but helium cannot recognize his erstwhile champion person and existent world rival. Celine, the miss successful question, is simply a dedicated pupil who maintains a conspiracy mentation societal media account, hoping it volition beryllium a bully extracurricular for instrumentality schoolhouse applications. The 2 volition larn to spot each different again implicit the people of a endurance campy that promises vocation occurrence for the students who succeed. Hibbert’s YA debut is simply a wonderfully adorable must-read.

Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong

In 1931 Shanghai, a brace of undercover spies unreal to beryllium joined to analyse a conspiracy that points toward the Japanese Imperial Army. Rosalind Lang wants to usage her immortality to lick the caller slew of murders successful Shanghai that are inciting panic. To bash so, she volition airs arsenic the woman of the infuriatingly charming spy Orion Hong. In a beingness built connected secrets, these spies volition person to larn however to archer the information if they privation to unveil the bosom of the occupation astatine the halfway of the enigma successful the city.  

Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

Book 2 successful The Legendborn Cycle continues the Southern Black and Arthurian-inspired phantasy satellite that continues to instrumentality TikTok by storm. Bree ever intended connected discovering the information down the concealed Order protecting the satellite from demons with the ancestors of the Knights of the circular table. Originally, she wanted to cognize their engagement successful her mother’s death, but it turns retired the concealed astatine the bosom of the racist and misogynistic enactment is much far-reaching and rotten than she erstwhile thought. Now she volition person to enactment with the members of the bid who are committed to alteration and unexpected extracurricular allies if she wants to larn to power her powerfulness and survive.

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

A teenage trans lad escapes from the fundamentalist cult that caused Armageddon and infected him with a bioweapon and joins a radical of queer teens surviving successful a monster-filled post-apocalyptic world. Benji can’t assistance but spot Nick, the person of the radical who is autistic and a sharpshooter. As Benji’s corruption dilatory mutates into a monster that could destruct those who survived the archetypal Armageddon, Nick is the lone 1 who knows the truth. Trust, friendship, family, and powerfulness are each interconnected successful this queer dystopian debut.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

In Huaxia, teen boys lucifer with teen girls’ vigor to successfully aviator transforming robot suits that combat a radical of invading aliens. When the girls, oregon concubine-pilots, dice successful the process, thing is done, but Zetian is determined to alteration that. After her sister’s death, she volunteers for the aforesaid programme successful the hopes of murdering the aviator who killed her sister. Zetian succeeds and unexpectedly survives the process of overpowering a antheral aviator done their psychic link. Too almighty a limb to kill, the officials nexus her with Li Shimin, the lone different aviator who’s arsenic feared arsenic she is. This is the polyamorous Chinese history-inspired, mecha-filled subject fabrication publication that continues to enrapture TikTok for bully reason.

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

When his duplicate gruesomely dies, Mars decides to be a blimpish summertime academy to uncover the truth. Although his genderfluidity created a region betwixt Mars and Caroline arsenic good arsenic his accepted family, helium present endures her old-fashioned academy with her aged friends, the Honeys to observe their transportation to her death. But the longer helium stays, the worse his representation gets, and if helium doesn’t enactment accelerated enough, Mars whitethorn succumb to the enigma that killed his sister.