The best book according to Booktok

Nowadays social media is everywhere! It is an important part of our daily lives. It evolves and adapts. Platforms like Instagram Snapchat and TikTok define how we communicate, connect, get information, share opinions and stories. They constantly introduce new features for sharing actively interests such as cooking, gaming and book recommendations. In these days there is a new # created on TikTok for book lovers: BookTok! It connects a community of readers and authors passionate about literature and books. BookTokers are influencers or creators who recommend and give advice on what to read or which books to buy in the TikTok platform.

BookTok helps to make reading cool again. It gives you the opportunity to quickly learn about the content of a book, provide comments in the readers corner and take part in the variety of discussion. Users love it because it makes the books so accessible. It allows readers to get the book immediately when they have free moments and start a fantasy journey with a wide range of characters. It is so simple and exciting to escape to a world of adventures when you are on the plane on the metro or in your cozy bed before you go to sleep.

Time for the big reveal of must reads. Here are the top 5 books of BookTok:

• A good girls’ guide to murderTop of Form: Pippa, a high school student, chooses to study a murder that happened 5 years ago for a school project uncovering unexpected truths along the way.
• The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo: This book tells the story of Evelyn Hugo, and old Hollywood actress, who marries seven husbands and outlives them all while attempting to secure an A-list spot in the entertainment industry.
• Fourth wing: It’s about Violet, the daughter of a high-ranked general, getting ordered into learning how to become a dragon rider throughout the story there are a series of challenges, betrayals, and unexpected alliances.
• It ends with us: Lily Bloom, a young college graduate, meets Ryle Kincaid they have chemistry, but it becomes clear that both have different aims when it comes to relationships.
• Better than the movies: Liz is a young girl who believes in true love and uses classic rom-com tropes to make her love life perfect, just to realize that real relationships are far more complicated than in the ones in the movies.

Surely this online book club will continue to evolve. It will change reading habits and will have an impact on the book industry. This may create new opportunities, advantages or disadvantages. We will see this in coming years. One thing is for sure this will be a challenging future for the literature world.

Bonis Dilara, Czarnecka-Sliwinska Marta and Claret de Fleurieu Elodie / S4EN Enrichment / EEB1 Uccle