This post was updated Jan. 11 at 8:44 p.m. Social media made reading cool again, but is BookTok enough to fight the literacy crisis? Viral TikTok trends have encouraged teens and young adults to pick ...

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Edward Holly (CAS ’25) inherited his love of reading from his mother, who passed down the novels from her book club to him. Holly now helps run Lattes and Lit, an on-campus book club at Georgetown ...

An ever-growing community calling itself “BookTok,” on the popular social media app TikTok, has caused publishing industry sales and authors’ careers to sky rocket. Now, there is an increased demand ...

The raw number of books a person reads doesn’t tell you much about their general level of intelligence.

As reading gets popular, there are a lot of opinions flying around. BookTok, a subculture of TikTok, boomed in 2020, right around the time of the pandemic. With an astounding 52 million hashtags, it’s ...

What began as a cozy nook on the corner of the internet, has quickly transformed into a global phenomenon. As of 2025, #BookTok has accumulated 370 billion views, with over 52 million creations ...

There is a unique magic in holding a physical book. The smell of paper and ink is both familiar and timeless and the weight of the pages offers a tangible connection to the stories that live in our ...

When people all across the globe finally flip their calendars to 2026, it won’t just be the start of a brand new year. For creators on BookTok, the section of TikTok obsessed with everything in the ...

When people all across the globe finally flip their calendars to 2026, it won't just be the start of a brand new year. For creators on BookTok, the section of TikTok obsessed with everything in the ...