The 30 most popular booktok recommendations

Teens & YA

• Six of Crows

  Ketterdam is a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price, no one knows this better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone...

• These Violent Delights

  The year is 1926 in Shanghai. A blood feud between two gangs has stained the streets red, and left the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law.

• You've Reached Sam

  Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes.

• House of Salt and Sorrows

  Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but four of the girls' lives have been cut short, each death was more tragic than the last. There are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.

• They Both Die at the End

  Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

Fiction

• It Ends With Us

  Lily Bloom moves to Boston to open her own floral business. She develops feelings for surgeon Ryle Kincaid, who is initially reluctant toward having a serious relationship with her. As their relationship blossoms, Lily has a sudden encounter her first love Atlas Corrigan. The reintroduction of Atlas threatens her relationship with Ryle, and forces her to come to terms with the trauma of her past and present.

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  The novel tells the story of the fictional Old Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo, who at age 79 gives a final interview and a retelling of her life and her seven husbands to journalist, Monique Grant.

• The Midnight Library

  Nora, a thirty-something woman is regretful about her life and feels alienated and unneeded in this world. In the depths of her despair, she finds the Midnight Library. In it are books which each have a portal into another variation of what her life could have been.

• The Night and its Moon

  Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane.

• Circe

  Circe is the daughter of Helios, God of the Sun, and Perse, an Oceanid nymph. Despite her divinity, she is less beautiful and lacks the skills of her siblings and is largely shunned among the gods. When she falls in love with a mortal who is fated to age and die, she will stop at nothing to save him even if it means turning to potions and witchcraft, and with it she discovers her own ability to bend the world to her will.

• A Little Life

  Four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. A gripping tale that is sure to leave your heart aching.

Romance

• The Unhooneymooners

  Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs.

• The Hating Game

  This workplace comedy is about coworkers Lucy and Joshua who become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There’s the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything—especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking.

• From Blood and Ash

  Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.

• Second First Impression

  Teddy Prescott devotes his life to sleeping, tattooing, and avoiding seriousness. When Teddy needs a place to crash, he makes a deal with his developer dad. Teddy can stay in one of Providence's on-site maintenance cottages—right next door to an unimpressed Ruthie—but only if he works there and starts to grow up.

• A Love Letter to Whiskey

  This achingly poignant work tells the story of two lovers fighting the curse of bad timing.

• Red, White and Royal Blue

  After an incident at a royal wedding, Alex has to pretend to be friends with England's Prince Henry, to prevent a diplomatic scandal that could be detrimental to his mother's election bid. They eventually become romantically involved when Henry reveals he is gay and Alex realizes he is bisexual, they have to reconcile this while tackling their positions on the world stage.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• The House in the Cerulean Sea

  Linus Baker is a lonely case worker for a governmental organization which manages orphaned kids who are magical beings. One day, he's given a secret assignment to assess a special orphanage on the island of Marsyas, run by a man named Arthur Parnassus, who has secrets of his own.

• The Poppy War

  The Poppy War is the story of passionate yet ruthless Fang Runin, also known as Rin, who grows up poor, orphaned by a previous war. But she studies and gets into an elite military academy, and develops a gift for shamanism that lets her call upon the fire powers of a vengeful Phoenix god.

• Six Crimson Cranes

  Penniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and uncovers a dark conspiracy to seize the throne. Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in a paper bird, a mercurial dragon, and the very boy she fought so hard not to marry.

• The Priory of the Orange Tree

  The Priory of the Orange Tree follows four main characters through political intrigue set against the backdrop of a fantasy world full of magic, mages and dragons.

• The Night Circus

  The story concerns two very powerful magicians who engage in a kind of proxy war through their protégés who are pitted against each other, but the consequences aren't what they imagine.

• The Bear and the Nightingale

  The Bear and the Nightingale is set in medieval Russia and incorporates elements of Russian folklore. The central character is a young girl, Vasya Petrovna, who is able to communicate with mythological creatures, at a time when Orthodox Christianity is attempting to stamp out all belief in such beings.

• A Court of Thorns and Roses

  When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.

• Shadow and Bone

  The Shadow Fold; an impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is expanding and slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom's magical elite—the Grisha.

Classics

• The Great Gatsby

  The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death.

• Pride and Prejudice

  Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry.

• The Catcher in the Rye

  This coming of age novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. We follow Holden as he reflects on his life and rails against the “phoniness” of the adult world.

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

  One Hundred Years of Solitude is a multi-generational story of the fictional Colombian town Macondo and the rise and fall of its founders, the Buendía family.

• Dune

  Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange, or "spice", a drug that extends life and enhances mental abilities.