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As Seen on BookTok

Book-related videos on the app TikTok have a massive impact on what readers are reaching for. With over 16 BILLION views, these BookTok videos share users' top reading recommendations. Because of BookTok's popularity, books that are highly recommended on BookTok go flying off of the shelves. Take a look at some of the most popular books on BookTok (and prepare for a waiting list!):

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  • Handsome, charismatic, genius -- [Alex Claremont-Diaz's] image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo…
    Book, 2019New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2019.
  • A retelling of the legend of Achilles follows Patroclus and Achilles, the golden son of King Peleus, as they lay siege to Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped--a cause that tests their friendship and forces them to make the ultimate sacrifice.
    Book, 2012New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012.
  • Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more…
    Book, 2017New York : Atria Books, 2017.
  • Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation--awkward but electrifying--something life…
    Book, 2019London ; New York : Hogarth, [2019]
  • When 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,…
    Book, 2015New York : Doubleday, [2015]
  • When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But…
    Book, 2021New York : Jove, 2021.
  • When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once…
    Book, 2014New York : Atria Paperback, 2014.
  • Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion ... she even managed to finance her entire wedding by…
    Book, 2019New York : Gallery Books, 2019.
  • Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have…
    Book, 2020[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
  • Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum).[...] When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee…
    Book, 2014New York : Scribner, 2014.
  • Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most.…
    Book, 2019New York : Ballantine Books, [2019]
  • Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business.…
    Book, 2016New York : Atria Paperback, 2016.
  • Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in…
    Unknown, 2008London : Penguin Classics, 2008.
  • To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020.
  • Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars,…
    Book, 2004New York : Vintage Books ; Toronto : Random House of Canada, Limited, [2004]
  • Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest…
    Book, 2015New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
  • Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
    Book, 2014New York : Delacorte Press, [2014]
  • In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020.
  • In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more…
    Book, 2017New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
  • Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
    Book, 2020New York : Tor, 2020.