Booktok books worth the hype according to a Reader’s Digest article

About books, we will always agree to disagree, but I do love lists, and this one is diverse and cross genre, so I’ll be investigating some I have not read yet. What about you? Agree? Notsomuch? How many have you read and enjoyed?

1. Verity by Colleen Hoover
Genre: Psychological thriller

2. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Genre: YA contemporary fantasy

3. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Genre: Rom-com

4. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Genre: Dark fantasy

5. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Genre: Rom-com
*My fav of her books

6. Babel by R.F. Kuang
Genre: Historical fantasy

7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: Historical fiction

8. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Genre: LGBTQ+ romance

9. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Genre: Memoir

10. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Genre: Literary fiction

11. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Genre: Contemporary fiction

12. Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Genre: Contemporary romance
*This was my favorite book of 2022

13. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Genre: Gothic

14. It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Genre: Contemporary romance
*My favorite Tessa book

15. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Genre: Romantic fantasy
*Totally worth the hype for me...loved, loved, loved this series!

16. Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Genre: Poetry

17. Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Genre: Romantic fantasy

18. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Genre: YA dystopian

19. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Genre: Literary fiction

20. Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Genre: LGBTQ+ romance
*Loved this one

21. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Genre: Contemporary fiction

22. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Genre: Historical fantasy

23. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Genre: LGBTQ+ YA contemporary fiction

24. Bunny by Mona Awad
Genre: Literary/satirical horror

25. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Genre: LGBTQ+ YA historical