TikTok’s “For You Page ... reading books even the smallest amount and have spent some time scrolling your own FYP, you ...

Don’t get me wrong, I love them both, but while I’ve definitely been introduced to new favorites, I can’t help but wonder how many great books are getting lost outside the BookTok hype cycle. BookTok ...

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 BookTok (TikTok parlance for ...

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

When people say they’re “on BookTok” it means either they create book-related videos or have a “for you page” full of them. “It’s like a big virtual ongoing book club where there’s ...

No, it won’t,” said Thad McIlroy, a book industry analyst. “Something unique happened with BookTok.” Over the past several years, TikTok has dramatically reshaped nearly every aspect of ...

At the beginning of the month, there was controversy on BookTok over Fable’s use of AI. Fable, a social media app for people to discuss books, used an AI programme to produce a reading year in ...

When I was in seventh grade, I remember reading “The Giver” and “The Outsiders.” In eighth grade, I read “How To Kill A Mockingbird” and “The Diary of Anne Frank.” In my freshman year, ...

It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app ... “So today, I’m just going to stick to my books,” she says in the video.