When we read something we love, we want everyone to know about it,
and this is why the TikTok community, #BookTok, has taken off. It serves
up genuine content with authentic feelings and reactions. It’s also really
good at igniting the fear of missing out in us … Here are some of the
authors whose books have seen a resurgence, thanks to #BookTok.
KAREN MCMANUS
Karen M. McManus is the author of One of Us is Lying, a book that went viral, not least because of the hit Netflix series based on the book, now in its second season. One of Us is Lying forms part of a series, including the second book, One of Us is Next. The third book, One of Us is Back, is due out in 2023.
McManus is the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult thriller/mystery novels, including One of Us Is Lying, One of Us Is Next, Two Can Keep a Secret, and The Cousins. Her work has been translated into more than 40 languages worldwide. Karen lives in Massachusetts and holds a master's degree in Journalism from Northeastern University, which she mostly uses to draft fake news stories for her novels.
For more information, visit www.karenmcmanus.com.
One of Us Is Lying
Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.
Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.
And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again.
He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it's no accident. All of them are suspects.
Everyone has secrets, right?
What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them.
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MARKUS ZUSAK
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief quickly became a cherished classic when it was published in 2005, and again, picked up traction in 2013 when a film based on the book was released. Now TikTok has given the book new life, with posts such as “The books you wish you could read again for the first time”.
Zusak is the bestselling author of six novels. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages, to both popular and critical acclaim. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two children.
Find Markus on his blog www.zusakbooks.com.
The Book Thief
The 10th-anniversary edition of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller recommended by millions of readers - includes exclusive behind-the-scenes material.
Here is a small fact – you are going to die.
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
Some important information: This novel is narrated by Death.
The 10th-anniversary edition features pages of bonus content, including annotated manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook.
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Author photo: Hugh Stewart
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s Inheritance Games series has been trending on TikTok ever since the first book hit shelves in 2020. The book landed right on the midst of #BookTok’s rise to fame, helping this author, who had already written more than a dozen acclaimed young adult novels, soar to new heights.
Barnes is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is currently a professor of psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma.
You can find Jennifer online at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com.
The Inheritance Games
She came from nothing.
Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why.
They had everything.
Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited. It's filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving relatives - a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money.
Now there's only one rule: winner takes all.
Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing. But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?
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Final Gambit, coming October 2022.
LYNN PAINTER
Lynn Painter got picked up by #BookTok with her escapist rom-coms that read like films. They’re just so much fun to read! Painter is a fan of rom-coms herself – and you can tell!
Painter lives with her husband and pack of wild children in Nebraska, where she is a weekly contributor to the Omaha World-Herald and an avid fan of napping. When working on a new book, she can often be found sound asleep on her office floor. Some might say she should grow up and stop randomly dozing off like she's a toddler, but Lynn considers it part of her writing process.
Find out more at www.lynnpainter.com.
Mr Wrong Number
Bad luck has always followed Olivia. But when a steamy text from a random number turns into the most entertaining relationship of her life, it seems things are looking up...
Colin has always considered Olivia his flatmate's annoying little sister. Until she moves in with them, and he realizes she's turned into an altogether sexier distraction...
He's determined to keep his distance, but it isn't easy. Especially when he discovers she's the girl he's been secretly messaging.
Now, Mr Wrong Number must make a decision. Should he shut down the messages, before things get messy?
Or turn up the heat...?
Author photo: Jackson Okun
AMY LEA
Amy Lea’s Set on You is a “compulsive enemies-to-lovers romance that also deals with body neutrality and influencer culture”. Starring Crystal Chen, a plus-size, half-Asian fit-fluencer, the book that challenges some of today’s stereotypes became an instant TikTok hit.
Lea is a Canadian bureaucrat by day and contemporary romance author by night (and weekends). She writes laugh out loud romantic comedies featuring strong heroines, witty banter, mid-2000s pop culture references, and happily ever afters. When Amy is not writing, she can be found fan-girling over other romance books on Instagram (@amyleabooks), eating potato chips with reckless abandon, and snuggling with her husband and goldendoodle. Set on You is her first book and her second book, Exes and O's, is coming in early 2023.
Find out more about Amy at www.amyleabooks.com.
Set on You
Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes. After a recent break-up, she has little time left for men, instead finding joy in the gym - her place of power and positivity.
Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favourite squat rack. Soon, sparks start flying...
As the ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents' engagement party. And, in the lead-up to the wedding, Crystal discovers there's a soft heart under Scott's muscled exterior. Bonding over family, fitness and cheesy pick-up lines, she just might have found her person.
But when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their relationship to the test... Are they strong enough to get through it?
EMILY HENRY
Emily Henry is another author whose books caught fire on TikTok. Her enemies-to-lovers trope has a realness to it that got readers talking – and feeling. The books whittled their way right to the heart of readers, fostering a connection hard to forget.
Henry’s butterfly-inducing romantic comedies include Beach Read and You & Me on Vacation, both of which were New York Times bestsellers. She studied creative writing at Hope College and now lives and writes in the American Midwest. Book Lovers is her third novel.
Discover more about Emily Henry at www.emilyhenrybooks.com.
You and Me on Vacation
Two friends. Ten summer trips.
Their last chance to fall in love.
12 summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again.
11 summers ago: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together.
10summers ago: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way.
7 summers ago: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans.
2 summers ago: It all goes wrong.
This summer: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives.
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