If you’ve seen It Ends with Us all over BookTok, heard your friends rave about it, or come across the new movie adaptation, you’re probably wondering: What’s the deal with this book? Is it really as good as people say?
Today, we’ll answer all your questions surrounding the It Ends with Us book and the It Ends with Us book series, so you can decide whether this book is worth adding to your reading list.
Can you smell it? The crisp air, the fallen leaves, the overabundance of pumpkin-spiced everything? Yep, fall is here, and you know what that means—it’s the perfect time to cozy up with a good book.
As we dive into Fall 2024, it’s evident that this season is packed with must-reads that BookTok has spotlighted. If you’re like many book lovers, you’ll agree that scrolling through BookTok has become a delightful habit, and the book recommendations are truly irresistible.
BookTok has become a central hub for bookworms and literature enthusiasts to discover new and exciting literary recommendations.
In this article, we take a journey through the virtual bookshelves of the best Booktok books 2023 to uncover the most captivating, thought-provoking, and unputdownable books that have won the hearts and minds of readers in 2023.
As leaves change and evenings draw in (if you’re in the northern hemisphere), thoughts turn to longer nights and crisp, golden days. (Even we can’t resist this most solid of seasonal clichés, it’s true.)
If you’re lucky, at least a few of those mellow, fruitful hours might be spent deep in a book and sipping your seasonal beverage of choice. Here at Bookscouter HQ, we promise won’t judge you for your PSL, white hot chocolate or chai latte, though we do offer a few recs for your next read, curated from BookTok books for fall 2023 (with the merest of minor spoilers ahead):
Can you name an author with a stronger BookTok presence than the inimitable Colleen Hoover? I certainly can’t. Colleen’s contemporary fiction, often depicting the lives, and loves, of young people as they navigate life crises, relationships, and their burgeoning adulthoods.
It’s hard to believe that a mere decade ago, Hoover self-published her first novel Slammed. That’s right SELF-PUBLISHED! The woman put some 123 000 words to paper and published it onto Amazon Kindle. A few great reviews and Amazon sales later, Colleen Hoover’s first two novels were propelled onto The New York Times Bestsellers List. From there, she was just a hop, skip and jump away from dominating TikTok’s literary pocket’s algorithm. Though she has written over twenty books, let’s take a moment to talk about our favourites.
What does ‘spicy’ mean to you? A fluid, sometimes contentious definition amongst Booktok-ers, Reddit-ors, Tumblr-ites and even the (usually) gentler denizens of Goodreads, this romance novel subgenre covers a surprising range.
For some, ‘spice’ might be anything more than coy, bedroom-door-closed, fade-to-black hints at (vanilla) sexual congress between leads, for others, no less than the darkest hinterlands of kink, dirty talk occasionally dubious consent and explicitly anatomical description will do. It’s also a definition that’s loose, welcoming, and democratic enough to take in sex more likely to feature participants of colour, LGBTQ partners, a spectrum of abilities and body types, as well as humour and dalliances with mythology or the supernatural.
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