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 ...

TikTok is a great place to get book recommendations across genres, but "BookTok" is especially useful for those looking for spicy romance reads. Some of the most popular books on BookTok are ...

Overconsumption is another issue facing BookTok. Brittany identified it as a “big trend” that “could bleed into the book space”, explaining that “a lot of people are doing ‘no-buy ...

BookTok itself has become a distinct and identifiable social media subgroup, a community of like-minded individuals who have ...

Not all BookTok recommendations are worth the hype, and determining if a book is truly well-written is key. Reviewers on BookTok may oversell or undersell books, missing important aspects of the ...

Reader communities are nothing new. But BookTok isn’t your grandma’s book club or the Facebook fan page of your mom’s generation – in fact, it gave online book communities of days past a ...

sleek books under the sign “BookTok.” Coming onto the literary scene only recently, BookTok is a subsection of the larger platform TikTok; this subsection has become a haven for readers and ...

She held a tiny fuzzy microphone as she spoke a message of solace to fellow readers: “BookTok didn’t create the book community, the book community created BookTok.” Readers prepare by ...