21 Books That Went Viral on TikTok

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It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

It wouldn’t beryllium a #BookTok database without CoHo. All of her books are having a moment, but this is 1 of the astir popular. When Lily meets Ryle, helium seems excessively bully to beryllium true. Despite knowing his aversion to relationships, helium seemingly has a brushed spot for Lily and they statesman a relationship. But the fairytale rapidly fades and Lily is near piecing unneurotic the remains of her abusive puerility with her present. Check retired a deeper dive into Colleen Hoover’s emergence to TikTok fame here.

Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan

This standalone hoops romance centers connected Augustus, the starting constituent defender for Piermont College. On the nighttime earlier the NCAA Championship, helium tin spot his aboriginal successful the NBA wrong reach, and helium ventures to a section barroom to calm his nerves. But upon trying to leave, helium runs into Iris and the sparks instantly fly. Although determination is an contiguous connection, Augustus is disappointed to find retired she is successful a relationship…with his archrival, Caleb. Even though they locomotion distant from each other, arsenic the years spell by, Iris can’t look to hide Augustus.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Imagine a room that holds the communicative of your life. And not conscionable the mode your beingness turned out, but besides contains each different way that you could’ve taken had you made a antithetic choice. Would you privation to cognize the beingness you could’ve lived? When Nora is faced with a determination that could alteration the trajectory of her beingness forever, she stumbles upon the room and is fixed this chance. But does knowing this alteration the present? Can it perchance ruin the future?

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Although immoderate of Reid’s different works similar Daisy Jones and the Six have made their people connected TikTok, Evelyn Hugo is decidedly the OG. When renown histrion Evelyn Hugo yet decides to archer her story, the satellite is shocked erstwhile she chooses a comparatively chartless mag newsman arsenic her writer. As Monique listens to Hugo’s story, she begins to consciousness a transportation to the superstar and it becomes glaringly wide that they are adjacent much connected than she realized.

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Grace Porter has ever lived her beingness successful harmless mode, and aft earning her PhD, she heads retired to Vegas with immoderate friends to celebrate. What she does not expect is to travel distant from that travel with a horrible hangover and having drunkenly joined a pistillate she hardly knows. Upon returning home, Grace attempts to hide her travel nether the guise of occupation applications and struggling to fulfill her father. When it abruptly becomes excessively much, Grace flees to New York to enactment with her wife, whose sanction she just remembers.

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Blake’s acheronian academia caller took #BookTok by storm. Each decade, the prestigious Alexandrian Society lone offers introduction to the six astir talented magicians of the generation. When Libby, Nico, Reina, Parisa, Callum, and Tristan are recruited by Atlas Blakeley, they are fixed a accidental to suffice for initiation fixed their prowess successful a assortment of subjects. The catch? Only 5 volition participate the Alexandrian Society. And 1 volition beryllium eliminated.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

In this retelling of the Iliad, Miller tells the communicative of the Trojan War done a antithetic perspective: Patroclus’, the exiled Prince who forms an unbreakable enslaved with the aboriginal hero, Achilles. When Achilles joins the warfare efforts to rescue Helen of Sparta from Troy, Patroclus cannot carnivore to beryllium separated from his person and follows Achilles into war. Even tested by battles and politics, their relationship ne'er wavers adjacent successful the look of death.

Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi

Juliette has been locked successful a compartment owed to her unusual affliction. Her interaction is deadly and she’s connected the enactment for murder. The Reestablishment, a.k.a. the government, feels assured that arsenic agelong arsenic Juliette is locked up, thing atrocious tin befall their land, which rapidly becomes not the case. One time Juliette is fixed a roommate named Adam. His backstory rapidly unravels to uncover helium is simply a worker for the Reestablishment and helium makes her a tempting connection successful speech for her freedom.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

In bid to flight an unwanted marriage, Addie LaRue is forced to marque the eventual bargain: she’ll beryllium fixed the quality to unrecorded forever, but volition beryllium forgotten by everyone she encounters. For 300 years, Addie becomes accustomed to the fleeting quality of her beingness and her inability to marque immoderate benignant of people connected the world. Everything changes for Addie erstwhile she revisits a regular haunt and stumbles into someone. Not lone does helium admit her, helium remembers her name.

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Popular among #HorrorBookTok, this novella has near readers with a atrocious sensation successful their mouths..in the champion way. Told done a bid of emails, we are introduced to 2 women who link online done the merchantability of an antique pome peeler. The purely transactional narration soon develops into thing darker, sinister, and shows however acold radical volition spell to delight the radical successful their lives. Heads up for a batch of assemblage horror.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

This publication follows 4 assemblage friends — Willem, J.B., Malcolm, and Jude — implicit the people of their big lives. Having met during assemblage aft moving to New York, the friends statesman to recognize that they cognize small to thing astir Jude, adjacent though helium has go the halfway of their group. Told successful aggregate parts, we larn astir Jude’s horrific past and however it made him into the antheral helium is today. This publication is highly recommended connected the platform, but delight look up contented warnings anterior to starting!

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Vuong is much wide known for his poesy and helium brings his beauteous imagery and words into this debut. This full publication is written arsenic a missive to the main character’s mother, who is illiterate and volition ne'er work it. The publication is semi-autobiographical and follows a household of Vietnamese refugees surviving successful the United States. It is precise overmuch the coming-of-age communicative of Little Dog and however his household relates to the caller location they’ve recovered themselves in.

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

Despite acing the qualifying exam, Rin is ostracized from her classmates astatine the elite Sinegard school. She’s darker-complected, from a mediocre province, and connected apical of that, she’s a girl. It’s during this clip of conflict that Rin discovers she has a secret, almighty quality that whitethorn marque her the summons to preventing the adjacent Poppy War. Although this publication is fantasy, it draws inspiration from mid-20th period China. Rin’s struggle is based connected the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the wide ambiance of the caller is inspired by the Song dynasty.

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

A mainstay successful mystery/thriller #BookTok, The Silent Patient is the communicative of Alicia Berenson, a celebrated creator erstwhile joined to the hottest manner lensman successful the biz. Now hidden distant successful a forensic portion successful London, Alicia has been kept determination since she changeable her hubby 5 times successful the look and past fell wholly silent. Criminal psychotherapist, Theo, has been pursuing Alicia’s lawsuit and has been waiting for his accidental to speech to her himself. Theo takes connected the lawsuit determined to lick the mystery, but his obsession threatens to instrumentality implicit his ain life.

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

With its existent popularity spurred by the debut of the Netflix series, Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper graphic novels halfway connected the narration that develops betwixt Charlie, an openly cheery teen who is somewhat of an outcast, and Nick, a prima rugby player. When the 2 meet, they rapidly signifier a friendship, but Charlie can’t assistance but autumn hard for Nick successful the process. The bid has 5 planned volumes, with 4 presently released.

Seven Days successful June by Tia Williams

This steamy romance follows the narration betwixt authors Eva and Shane. Eva, a bestselling erotica writer, and Shane, a literate author, seemingly conscionable by accidental astatine an lawsuit and they instantly connect. Little known to the remainder of the attendees, Eva and Shane met astir 20 years earlier and spent 1 unforgettable week unneurotic earlier going their abstracted ways. This accidental gives them the accidental to reconnect and for Eva to get the answers she’s wanted for 2 decades.

They Both Die astatine the End by Adam Silvera

Silvera’s satellite is 1 successful which radical are fixed beforehand announcement of their impending deaths. And erstwhile Mateo and Rufus person telephone calls from Death-Cast, they larn they volition dice today. Despite being full strangers, the 2 boys go connected done an app called “Last Friend.” Once they meet, they’re capable to person 1 past escapade unneurotic earlier they some exit the world.

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Indigenous writer Roanhorse is truthful bully astatine creating stories inspired by past civilizations but giving them a futuristic feel. Black Sun focuses connected the beatified metropolis of Tova, which celebrates the wintertime solstice each year. For the archetypal time, the solstice coincides with a star eclipse that the Sun Priest predicts volition unbalance the world. So erstwhile a vessel from a distant metropolis arrives carrying a mysterious passenger, the metropolis of Tova and its citizens are needlessly distraught.

A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas

Maas’ phantasy fae bid has been making waves wrong the #BookTok assemblage with a operation of its characters and spicy dialogue. Although the communicative develops considerably done the series, it starts with the kidnapping of Feyre from her quality home. Her archetypal hatred of her captor, a faerie named Tamlin, yet transforms into a fiery passionateness and Feyre finds herself successful the mediate of a brewing struggle that could perchance alteration the fae satellite forever.

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

You whitethorn person heard astir “the cannibal TikTok book,” good present it is. Originally published successful Spanish, the English translation was made disposable successful 2020 and rapidly swept the internet. In a aboriginal satellite wherever each animals person been contaminated by a mysterious virus, cannibalism has go ineligible successful bid for humans to proceed to devour meat. Human slaughterhouses person go commonplace, with circumstantial bodies being created for the intent of consumption.