BookTok Made Me Read It
Romance Tropes
BookTok Slang
Internet Famous Authors
Book Plots Explained Poorly
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This Colleen Hoover novel is often debated on BookTok for its portrayal of relationships.


It Ends with Us

100

Two characters who strongly dislike each other but eventually fall in love fit this trope.

Enemies to lovers

100

This term refers to the emotional emptiness felt after finishing a good book.

Book Hangover

100

This author is known for romance novels frequently discussed on BookTok.

Colleen Hoover

100

A teenager volunteers for a game show where people die.

The Hunger Games

200

This fantasy romance series features fae courts and loving but scary creature that helps the heroine. 

ACOTAR

200

A romance where childhood friends develop feelings later uses this trope.

Friends to lovers

200

This phrase is used when readers love a character despite their flaws.


"I can fix him"

200

This fantasy author wrote a book that famously features an illiterate protagonist

SJM

200

A boy discovers he is special and attends a very dangerous school.

Harry Potter

300

This BookTok-famous novel follows two writers competing to write bestselling books.

Beach Read

300

This trope involves one character falling first while the other is oblivious.

One falls first

300

This slang phrase suggests intentionally unrealistic optimism.

Delulu

300

This author wrote Red Queen.

Victoria Aveyard

300

A group of people walk for a very long time to destroy jewelry.

Lord of the rings

400

This standalone novel by Madeline Miller retells a Greek myth from a female perspective.

Circe

400

A romance that develops slowly over time is called this.

Slow burn

400

This term describes fictional men readers obsess over.

Book boyfriends. Will also accept shadow daddies. 

400

This author’s books became famous largely due to aesthetic TikTok edits. Her romance books are very popular and are the ultimate beach read. 

Emily Henry

400

Trauma, but make it fantasy romance.

ACOTAR. But I will accept other answers if you can defend. 

500

This BookTok hit proves that even murderers can have a meet-cute.

Butcher and Blackbird

500

This trope involves a breakup near the climax before reconciliation.


Third-act breakup

500

This phrase refers to readers understanding a reference without explanation.

IYKYK

500

This author is known for emotionally devastating literary fiction on BookTok. Bonus hint: Grace was obsessed with one of their poems this year. 

Ocean Vuong

500

A girl falls in love with someone who might literally kill her. Oh and there are a lot of dogs. And glitter

Twilight