For a long time, I felt that books weren’t all that important. It was important to me, obviously, and there are quite a few others too. BUT!! It seems that a significant number of people were not reading. I bet before TikTok became popular, reading wasn’t a super common hobby. A lot of people kind of lost their love of reading, or it was never there for them to begin with. But the more TikTok became popular, I feel like the more popular books started to become popular again. But what are the top 10 booktok books that are worth it?
If you’re anything like me, reading pretty popular books on social media is hard. I get my hopes up, and then I wind up finishing the book pretty disappointed. It’s happened to me numerous times, so now I try not to fall for the hype. But a lot of these books still come across the feed.
But are these top ten booktok books worth it?
Top 10 booktok books of 2025
I feel like TikTok has started a revolution for books and reading. Reading seemed to be so popular as I was growing up. A lot of people loved reading while I was growing up, but it seemed to stop with a lot of people after I graduated just stopped reading as much.
If I’m going to be honest, I want to know what happened. Why exactly was there a downfall with reading? It seems like a lot of things changed for a lot of people in different age groups. I’m glad that reading has become “cool” again, though! So, what are some of the top 10 booktok books of 2025?
Sunrise of the reaping
I’m going to be honest. Sunrise of the Reaping is a book that I keep going back and forth on, whether I’m excited about it or not. That’s most because I wasn’t all that happy with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I know a lot of people probably liked it, and that’s okay! For me, I just found it boring, and it was kind of dragging for me as well. The same goes for the movie. But that’s just me and because I hated Snow and didn’t care for an origin story.
If you’re living under a rock, then Sunrise of the Reaping is already out and has already been scheduled to get a movie! This story follows Haymitch as he goes through his games. Now I can get behind it because I like his character. I’m also really curious about what he went through when he had to go through the games and what scarred him.
Onyx Storm
I’ve been trying to decide if I want to read this series or not. Quite often I hear about how there’s a “spiciness” to the story. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but usually I don’t care for it.
I guess it’s a bit hard for me to go from horror and thriller books that have little to no romance in it to going to a book with a lot more in it. Especially when it’s not typically my thing. Maybe I’ll be able to talk myself into reading the books eventually.
Here is what Onyx Storm is about.
Violet has been at Basgiath War College for eighteen months now. But she knows there is no more time for any lessons and no more time to be uncertain. The battle has begun, and the enemies are getting closer and managing to get into their ranks. She doesn’t know who to trust.
She has to travel outside of Aretian wards to see if she can find any sort of allies to stand with Navarre. The trip is going to test her in every single way, but she’s willing to do everything she can to save what she loves.
Witchcraft for wayward girls
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is one of the top 10 booktok books that I bought because of booktok, and I’m super hyped up for it. I still haven’t managed to read it yet, but I’m so excited to get started on it!
I’ve honestly been meaning to. I just have so many books and it has been kind of hard for me to figure out what to read. Hopefully, this is one that I can get to soon!
Here is what Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is about.
They are called the wayward girls. They are loose girls, girls who grew up too fast. All of them are sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida. They are unwed mothers and are being hidden by their families so they can deliver their babies to be given up for adoption. This is their way for them and their family to forget that any of it ever happened.
Fern is fifteen years old and she’s just arrived at the home in the hot summer of 1970. She’s pregnant, terrified, and she’s alone. It doesn’t take long for her to meet other girls who are in the same predicament as her.
Everything they do, eat, and talk about is controlled by the adults who say they know what’s best for them. When Fern meets a librarian, she is given an occult book that talks about witchcraft. Now the power is in the girls’ hands for the first time in their lives. Power can destroy just as easily as it’s able to create. It’s also never given freely. There’s a price that has to be paid, and it has to be paid with blood.
Beautiful Ugly
This one is one that hasn’t come across my feed yet. Honestly, I’m not surprised because my TikTok feed usually goes back and forth from being on booktok to being on something else.
Now I can understand why this is one of the top 10 booktok books just by the synopsis alone. Granted this could be another one of the books that would just wind up disappointing me, but I won’t know until I find out.
Here is what Beautiful Ugly is about.
Grady is an author, and he’s having the worst but best day of his life.
When he calls his wife to share some news, she’s driving home. Then he hears her slam on the brakes, gets out of the car, and then there’s nothing. At some point, he finds her car by the edge of a cliff with the headlights on, the door is open, and her phone is there. His wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still grieving. He’s desperate to know what happened to his wife. At this point, he’s unable to sleep, and he no longer has the creative juices to write. He ultimately makes the decision to travel to a Scottish island in hopes of getting his life on track. The impossible happens. He sees a woman who looks just like his missing wife.
My Friends
This is one book that I checked out through the library and I’m glad that I wound up doing that instead of outright buying it. I tried getting into this one and I don’t know if it’s the book or if it’s me, but I struggled getting into this one.
I also think that it’s partly because I didn’t fully read the synopsis so I kind of went in blind and it wound up being a type of book that I wasn’t expecting.
Here is what My Friends is about.
A lot of people don’t notice the three figures that are sitting at the end of a long pier on the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. People think that the painting has something to do with the sea. Louisa, an aspiring artist, knows that it’s not. She has to figure out the story behind those three figures.
Two decades before, a group of teenagers found safety from their home life by spending their days on an abandoned pier telling jokes and doing small acts of rebellion. They find reason in each other to get up every morning, to dream, and to fall in love.
From that summer, a great work of art, a painting, will wind up in Louisa’s care. This is the start of a cross-country trip to figure out how the painting came to be and to figure out what exactly to do with it. The closer she gets to the place where the painting came to be, she starts to become nervous about what she’ll find.
The Perfect Divorce
The Perfect Divorce is one top 10 booktok books that keeps popping up on my feed as well. This is also one of the few top 10 booktok books that I have read. I understand why people like The Perfect Marriage and The Perfect Divorce. There’s a good reason, and the stories are pretty fast-paced. I liked The Perfect Marriage because I didn’t expect what was going to happen.
Now The Perfect Divorce is completely different. I’m just going to say that I feel like there shouldn’t be a second book in the first place and I have a feeling there is going to be a third.
Here is what The Perfect Divorce is about.
It has been eleven years since Sarah defended her husband, Adam, against the murder charges of his mistress. She has completely moved on and started a family with her now husband, Bob, and has changed her career. She has her life the way that she wants it. Or so she thinks.
When Sarah figures out about Bob’s one-night stand, she immediately files for divorce. During their dragged-out separation, there has been new DNA uncovered in Adam’s case. It forces the police to reopen the case, therefore putting Sarah back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what exactly happened.
When the woman Bob slept with goes missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty.
The Tenant
The Tenant is one of the top 10 booktok books that I have been seeing EVERYWHERE. It’s on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok. I’ve been seeing a lot of ads for it as well.
If I’m going to be honest I do kind of want to read it. I’ve just been holding myself back because it seems to be so widely popular. I just have a bad habit of going into books like this with high expectations only for it to not be as great as I anticipated. But maybe I’ll get to this one soon!
Here is what The Tenant is about.
Blake is living his best life. That is until he’s not. He’s been fired out of nowhere from his job as the vice president of marketing. Now he’s struggling to make payments on his new place with his fiancée, and he’s frantic to make ends meet.
Then there’s Whitney. She’s everything Blake wants. Or is she?
There isn’t something quite right, though. Neighbors begin treating him differently. There is a smell of decay inside his home that won’t go away, no matter how much he cleans. There are weird noises that wake him up in the night. Soon, he fears someone might know his darkest secrets.
Danger is right in his home, and by the time he realizes it, it’s too late.
In Five Years
I consider In Five Years kind of a contemporary book, but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s more romance than anything. But I have not read a contemporary book in such a long time. In Five Years has caught my attention, though. I think it might have a lot to do with the fact that I’ve been so goal-oriented lately, and I’ve worked on how I want my life to look in five years.
The thought of seeing a different route for your life in a dream seems like a cool idea. It also makes me wonder what I would do if I were in a situation like this.
Here is what In Five Years is about.
Dannie is a very type-A lawyer. When she’s asked a question at one of the most important interviews of her career, she carefully answers it at the ready. Later, after she nails her interview and says yes to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, she goes to sleep knowing she’s on the right track to accomplish her five-year plan.
When she wakes up, she’s in a different apartment and she has a different ring on her finger from a very different man. With the news on in the background, she hears that the day, but five years in the future.
After a very scary hour, she wakes up again, but it’s midnight back in the year she’s originally from. She can’t seem to roll off what happened. It felt like it was just more than a dream, but she doesn’t believe in visions. She’s determined to ignore the weird experience and put the thought in the back of her mind.
That is until four and a half years later Dannie meets the man that she “dreamt” about so long ago.
The Summer of Broken Rules
I already know that this book isn’t going to be for me, but I wanted to include it because I’m sure there are plenty of you who would like it! For me, I’m just a huge fan of romance, and I kind of feel like it might hit hard in the romance department.
Here is what The Summer of Broken Rules is about.
Meredith has been going to Martha’s Vineyard for as long as can remember. This summer is the first time she’s been back since the death of her sister. She knows it’s going to be overwhelming since all of her extended family will be there for her cousin’s wedding.
But two weeks before the wedding, her boyfriend breaks up with her out of nowhere, leaving her without a date. Thankfully she has the perfect distraction. Every year, her family has a tradition of playing the ultimate game of Assassin, and this year it will take place during the week of wedding activities.
Her target winds up being a really cute groomsman. She’s not going to let herself get distracted. She’s not going to allow herself to get lost in another doomed relationship. As the week slowly passes she can’t help for falling for him. It may not only cost her the game but her heart as well.
Listen for the Lie
I’m honestly trying to decide if I want to read this one. I love the thought of amnesia thriller books, but they have been so hit or miss for me. It seems like a lot of them I’ve read are just lacking in something, but I can never figure out what that something is.
I may wind up reading Listen for the Lie eventually, but it probably won’t be anytime soon.
Here is What Listen for the Lie is about.
Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of a small Texas town. They were pretty and smart. Lucy married a dreamy-looking guy with a big ring and an even bigger home. Savvy was a social butterfly and everyone loved her. If you believe the rumors she was pretty popular with the men in town too. When Lucy is found wandering the streets covered in Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she murdered her.
Years after that night Lucy still can’t remember anything about it. Now she lives in LA and started a new life. Now there’s a huge true crime podcast that wants to investigate Savvy’s murder for their second season. Lucy has to return to the place she never wanted to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder. Even if she’s the one who did it.
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