"The decline of reading is a bigger challenge than AI could ever be," said Ken Follett's publisher. And between BookTok and ...

Senior Staff Writer Abby Breidenbach discusses the negatives of BookTok and explains how it is destroying literature.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...