An ever-growing community calling itself “BookTok,” on the popular social media app TikTok, has caused publishing industry sales and authors’ careers to sky rocket. Now, there is an increased demand ...

When adventure and morality collide, you get "The Lord of the Rings." When love and the Roaring Twenties meet, you get "The Great Gatsby." And when the world of books and TikTok come together, you get ...

The UK’s Publishers Association reported that book sales increased by 5% in 2021, thanks to BookTok. Nigel Newton, the CEO of Bloomsbury Publishing, attributed 220% of its business’ profit in 2021 to ...

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 ...

Growing up, I didn’t love books. Reading for fun seemed impossible. I would only read the books assigned in school, and even had to use Sparknotes to summarize the content I was reading. However, that ...

What began as a cozy nook on the corner of the internet, has quickly transformed into a global phenomenon. As of 2025, #BookTok has accumulated 370 billion views, with over 52 million creations ...

Adult fiction has been publishing’s steadiest-selling category for the past 18 months. Unit sales of print adult fiction books were up 8.5% in 2022 over 2021 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan ...

When people all across the globe finally flip their calendars to 2026, it won’t just be the start of a brand new year. For creators on BookTok, the section of TikTok obsessed with everything in the ...

Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. Are you a fan of those ASMR slime videos on TikTok? How about cooking videos? Mini stand-up comedy specials?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WHNT) — If you’ve been inside a bookstore ...