#BookTok recommendations
Want to read books that are currently trending on TikTok right now, but don't have the time to go down the rabbit hole? (We know, we've been there...) We've got you!
We've collated a special list of books that will be up anyone's alley—be it romantic comedy, contemporary fiction, or memoirs. It's time to add these to your never-ending TBR list!
When Emira—a young black woman—is confronted while babysitting a two-year-old toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket, Alix—her white, well-intentioned employer—is shocked by the incident. A bystander films the incident—to a humiliated Emira's dismay—and the viral video unearths someone from Alix’s past, putting the women on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know. This is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, and a searing debut for our times.
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Wreck This Journal: Now In Color
For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook, this book's for you. Now in spectacular full colour, you’ll find prompts for painting, shredding, transforming, and unleashing your creativity. It's time to wreck with color: mixing colors to make mud, letting chance dictate your color choice, weaving with brightly colored strips of paper, and more!
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When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Hollywood socialite Piper Bellinger in the slammer, her stepfather cuts her off, and sends her and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington. Cue a big, bearded sea captain, and Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew back in L.A. is what she truly wants.
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A star who writes secret fanfiction based on the character he plays in the biggest show on television meets his plus-size devoted fan who happens to be his closest fandom friend—how would it play out next? With love and his career on the line, can the two of them stop hiding once and for all, or will a match made in fandom end up prematurely cancelled?
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The perfect addition to the number one New York Times bestselling Red Queen series—this collection features three brand new novellas and two previously published novellas. Above all, it gives us all the drama we crave from our beloved characters. If you loved the Red Queen series, there is no way you're not picking this up!
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Joan Didion's passing last year was sad news for the literary world. In this collection that's mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion wrote about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive and, in new light, stunningly prescient.
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An unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American from the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Prepare the tissues—you'll need them for the tears to come.
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All the Light We Cannot See (Collins Modern Classics)
Now part of Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience—classics which will endure for generations to come—Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See is a deeply moving novel about the ways people try to be good to one another. This book has touched the hearts of millions of readers across the world, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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If you're a fan of Emily Henry's previous books, People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read, you're gonna love her new book. A cutthroat literary agent, a bookish brooding editor, and blossoming love—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow! We're definitely rooting for them. Sign us up, please!
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My Year Of Rest And Relaxation
This is a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world—by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature, and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be.
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