Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’ve cultivated an audience of readers for outlets like Variety, Vulture and Time, but in early 2021 I started my own ...

Book clubs have had a revival in recent years thanks to BookTok – a viral TikTok community ... that we’re all reading and catch up for a girls night and talk about it for as long as we want.” ...

And Austen’s followers gravitate towards the subtlety found within her romance plots, something that is arguably missing from the BookTok romcom ... read Austen in a girls’ only book group ...