It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app, readers begged users to refrain from connecting politics and novels. On the other, readers argued ...

Otherwise known as ‘Booktok’, this is a space where users congregate online to share and discuss their favorite books. Of course, Booktok isn’t without its drawbacks. As with most online ...

This week, BookTok creators discussed the challenges facing the platform in 2025. Sanziana-Dana (@sanzireads; 2589 followers) echoed these points, calling the potential ban “the biggest issue ...

Reels, YouTube Shorts and Snapchat still prioritise content from accounts users already follow, meaning they lack the discovery potential that makes BookTok so powerful. While something may fill ...

Elaine Fitzsimons Clóda Scanlon is a self-proclaimed “matcha girlie”. Last summer, she tried the buzzy powdered green tea for the first time at a cafe in Dun Laoghaire, and from there ...

21, two days after the potential TikTok ban goes into place in the U.S. The connection between the two might not be apparent to those outside “#BookTok,” the large community of (mostly women ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law banning the app if it is not sold. The social media platform briefly went dark in ...

TikTok star Kallmekris has apologized after posting a YouTube video slamming a book genre wildly popular with Booktok creators. Over the last few years, Kallmekris has amassed over 50 million ...

There’s been a bit of a vibe shift among BookTok users as TikTok's Jan. 19 sell-or-ban deadline approaches. That the beloved online reader community could soon be a thing of the past spurred a ...

"I would say BookTok is entering into, I think, its fourth year of popularity now," she says. "It was a niche community of readers who were just finding like-minded people during the pandemic and ...

It doesn’t matter if you avoid social media or are chronically online enough to know what “faerie smut” is – if you’re a reader, you’ve probably heard of BookTok. Reader communities ...

Netflix has picked up the rights to adapt Ana Huang‘s romance novel “Twisted Love” and its sequels into a TV series in a seven-figure option deal. Per the logline for the project, “A ...