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Books to Read Once You've Exhausted All The BookTok Recommendations!

Written by Hayden Roberts. Published: July 25 2022

 

If you’re an avid reader in 2022, chances are that you’ve probably found yourself on BookTok' every now and then. In case that term is unfamiliar to you, BookTok is a subcategory of the app TikTok in which users share videos of book reviews, recommendations, theories, and more.

 

The explosion of the online BookTok community has caused an incredible increase in book sales over the last few years. As a result of user recommendations and reviews, it has become quite common for specific books to gain rapid notoriety within the community. Some popular books that have taken BookTok by storm include It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood.

 

Although BookTok is never lacking in content, the popular recommendations can be rather repetitive after a while. You may never get tired of hearing about your favorite novel, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore the other books out there! If you’ve happened to finish the most viral BookTok recommendations, there are plenty of other books to satisfy your reader’s withdrawal.

 

If you liked It Ends With Us, then try…

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Here So Far Away by Hadley Dyer

 

If you liked The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, then try…

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

The Sinful Lives of Trophy Wives by Kristin Miller

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

 

If you liked The Love Hypothesis, then try…

The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

The Meet-Cute Project by Rhiannon Richardson

Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao

Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter

 

If you liked Still Missing by Chevy Stevens, then try…

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

The Cellar by Natasha Preston

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Girl, Stolen by April Henry

None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney

 

If you liked The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, then try…

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill

Maurice by E.M. Forster


Happy reading!