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BlackMilk’s A Court Of Thorns And Roses Collab Is Sending BookTok Girlies To The Night Court

ACOTAR girlies, rise up.

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Wife Gives Her Husband 5 Minutes to Grab Whatever He Wants at Barnes & Noble. He Does a Villain Monologue: ‘Do You Even Know Who You Married?’

If there’s one thing anyone shouldn’t do at a bookstore, it’s to tell a bookworm that they could grab any book and walk out with it for free. Lacey threw out an irresistible suggestion to her husband, Trey, on his birthday at Barnes & Noble. He went from normal book…

The Mary Sue

The 7 Biggest Differences Between Off Campus And The Deal, From Garrett To *That* Breakup

Prime Video’s Off Campus isn’t a scene-for-scene adaptation of The Deal. Here are all the biggest changes to Hannah, Garrett and more.

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‘Fourth Wing’ Is Finally Headed to the Screen with the Help of a ‘Sinners’ Star

Get ready for more dragons!

The Mary Sue

‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Star Set to Bring one of BookTok’s Biggest Hits to Life

After the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Dune franchise, Florence Pugh is heading to the center of a long-awaited adaptation of one of BookTok’s biggest juggernauts. On Monday, reports revealed that Pugh is set to star in and produce a film adaptation of The Midnight Library. Based on Matt Haig’s…

The Mary Sue

Josh Heuston Knows Fans Think He'd Be A Great Fit For Fourth Wing, And I Had To Ask About That Fancast

He's seen the vision.

Cinemablend

TikTok's BookTok is turning pages into streaming gold

Real-time reader trends are guiding some of Hollywood's biggest bets.

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‘Deliciously dark’: how Freida McFadden’s twisty thrillers gripped millions of readers

The author, who recently revealed her real name to be Sara Cohen, began writing to escape from her work as a medic, and now has a huge global fanbase

The Guardian - UK

We Finally Have A Your Fault: London Trailer & Release Date, But Fans Are Stressing

Prime Video has confirmed Your Fault: London, the sequel to My Fault: London. Here’s everything we know about cast, plot and release.

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Official BookTok chart set to launch in the UK

Offering a monthly Top 20 rundown, the ranking will combine retail sales data with social media engagement on TikTok

The Guardian - UK

Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years

Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights has been pulling in the crowds recently, which is quite a feat in troubled times for cinema. Published in 1847, Emily Brontë’s tale of psycho-sexual power dynamics is just one of many enduring female-authored 19th century novels exploring female sexuality and desire for…

The Conversation

The romantasy genre has destroyed book cover design

Is BookTok to blame?

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‘Chia pudding is Cathy’s composed side’: the wild and worrying world of official Wuthering Heights merchandise

Emerald Fennell’s lust-fuelled take on Emily Brontë’s novel has cued a hot flush of merchandise ranging from themed snacks to thongs. What exactly are they buying into?

The Guardian - UK

Woman catches boyfriend using her $30 Redken shampoo without her consent. Why are people defending him all of a sudden?: ‘Lavender Soap Theory’

Another day, another relationship nearly ended by a $30 bottle of hair care. One woman logged onto TikTok expecting sympathy after catching her boyfriend absolutely mauling her Redken Extreme Length shampoo. It’s the kind someone buys for themself, not for freeloading scalps. But instead, she found herself knee-deep in something…

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Can you put a hold on items at Kohl’s? Woman tries with viral ‘spicy’ book blanket: ‘She asked her manager’

Few online communities are forces to be reckoned with quite as fiercely as BookTok. Famed for its buying power and proclivity toward impassioned fandom, BookTok has been driving literary pop culture for years now—particularly regarding the “romantasy” genre.

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‘I would love to kidnap you’: Booktok influencer flies woman out to Miami after barely talking to her. Then they watch his ‘comfort’ show ‘Dahmer’

A TikTok user has gone viral after sharing her weekend encounter with BookTok influencer and adult social media star Will Pyun.

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Luke Bateman’s Bachie Ex Ellie Rolfe Pens Scathing Post After Seeing Him On I’m A Celeb

"Don't believe everything you see on TV and on social media! People can curate a whole identity for their personal gain/ego."

The Conversation

Want to get your teens reading books this summer? 7 teens share their favourite books in 2025

Around the world, young people are reading for pleasure less often, suggests a recent report. In Australia, 29% of high school students don’t read in their free time. So, how do we encourage our teenagers to read? There are some proven things you can do.

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Teens discover books on social media. What will the under-16s ban do to their reading?

In a video address to the nation, timed with Australia’s world-first teen social media ban, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese encouraged under-16-year-olds newly unable to access social media to “read that book”.

The Mary Sue

‘Turned my location off’: Phoenix woman tells her boyfriend she’s going for a drive at night. Then a car with no headlights starts following her

There’s the real world version of dating, and then there’s the BookTok version: dramatic, moody, and full of fantasy. A trend built around that idea has been circulating on TikTok, with creators staging the moment they “go for a drive” and someone follows behind.

International Business Times UK

BookTok's Wild One Piece Guess: Sanji's Arlong Park Durability Linked to Whole Cake Island Abuse

A BookToker's startlingly accurate theory about One Piece's Sanji, made hundreds of chapters early, has veteran fans re-evaluating their understanding of the series.

The Conversation

Why the internet (and Gen Z) is still obsessed with Twilight, two decades on

Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the publication of Twilight, the first book in Stephanie Meyer’s teen vampire romance saga published between 2005 and 2020.

The Guardian - UK

Young Finns snub their mother tongue by reading in English

Publishers fear for the future of translated literature as sales of foreign language books rise

The Independent UK

Thoughts about the afterlife sparked R.F. Kuang's newest novel, 'Katabasis'

Ruminating on the question of what happens after you die inspired R

The Independent UK

‘Richard Osman makes me feel better’: Meet the Thursday Murder Club’s Gen-Z superfans

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Think the bestselling mystery books – now adapted into a new Netflix film – are exclusively for readers as old as their crime-busting OAP heroes? Think again. Helen Coffey speaks to the twentysomething BookTokkers who can’t get enough of them

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