If you’ve been online at any point since 2020, you’ve likely heard of “BookTok,” the literature-focused side of TikTok.

We look at the world of BookTok and the book clubs you'll wish you knew about sooner. Plus, the owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf ...

Barnes & Noble opened 57 stores in 2024 and plans to open at least 60 in 2025, thanks to a boost from BookTok, Axios reports.

Fans of Sarah J. Maas think they know when the next instalment in the A Court of Thorns and Roses will be hitting shelves ...

The Empyrean series, a cross between romance and fantasy, has racked up millions of fans, with more books and a TV adaptation ...

The biggest problem with BookTok isn’t the books people are reading, but the way they consume them. The endless cycle of buying books to appeal to an aesthetic shifts the focus of being a “book lover” ...

The series is perhaps the headliner of a genre that’s crept out of the woodwork over the past decade: romantasy. A blend of ...

Paper Source, a Barnes and Noble company, is closing a warehouse in Forest Park despite a string of store openings this past ...

Arndell, an imprint of Keeperton, has acquired the print rights to five books from TL Swan.

With the rise of social media reading communities comes the rise of dark romance, a subgenre that remains controversial and problematic due to its depiction of messy, twisted, and often morally ...

Edward Holly (CAS ’25) inherited his love of reading from his mother, who passed down the novels from her book club to him.  Holly now helps run Lattes and Lit, an on-campus book club at Georgetown ...

Featuring bookstore hauls, book reviews and "spicy" recommendations, BookTok is one of the biggest communities on TikTok. It's also an unlikely savior of America's largest brick-and-mortar book ...