BookTok Bro Starter Set

Books most likely to be recommended to you by a BookTok Bro.

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created by ChadSacro

last updated December, 2025

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this is so on point, and your username being Chad makes it even funnier 🤣

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I saw that and almost did a spit take 🤭

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The fact that I’ve read all of these… Am I… a BookTook bro? 🥺

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Possibly! To be fair the fact that these books tend to attract a certain audience does not preclude them being good or enticing to a wider group of people.

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Tbf, I read Red Rising before TikTok was a thing way back in 2015/2016, so. 😎 I’m worse, I’m a hipster.

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2016 Regina George: “Thievia, Stop trying to make ‘Red Rising’ happen! It’s not going to happen!”

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😂

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Somehow very happy to have only read one of these 💜 Performing performative male very well 😤

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I have a 30% overlap. We can be booktok bros together? 😂

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Heck yeah, bro! 🤛

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BRO!! 🤜

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i’m CACKLING

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So, so real. I do think you should add A Game of Thrones and The Long Walk or IT.

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Oh they fuckin love The Long Walk

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Yeah, they do 😂 I'm not a King fan but they go rabid for that old white man

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Maybe "12 rules for life" too, or am I misunderstanding something 😅

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I did add Game of Thrones. I also have 11/22/63 on the expansion pack list, only because I hear more about that one than The Long Walk and IT on TikTok.

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Thank you for this perfect primer for how to talk to my straight white male coworker that I have nothing in common with.

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actually laughed out loud 😂😂😂

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I’m dead 💀 you’ve killed me 😂

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Is this list to read or avoid??

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My thoughts exactly 😅

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I have 45% overlap but in my defense… Most of those are only on my tbr, I haven’t actually read them I’m not sure if that makes me partly a booktok bro or not 🥲 Is it too late for me?? Am I a lost cause?

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I have 55% but I’ve only read 3 of them. I think I might be a lost cause and I’m just accepting it. 😱🫠

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I don’t know that it’s a bad thing. I personally love a good rom-com book. So you can be a BookTok Bro, and I’ll be a Romance Girlie!

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😂😂😂

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I was thinking that it would be a fun list to have exist. I feel like you can’t open TikTok or Reddit without somebody recommending one of these books.

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Lol if we're talking Reddit, I see Between Two Fires recommended there all the time! I mean, I'm about to read it, they have successfully convinced me 😅

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Actually good point, I see that all the time too. Added it to the list!

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i KNEW between two fires was going to be on this list

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I have 82% overlap I don’t know how to feel about it 😭🤣🤣🤣

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Sup bro🤣💪🏾

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Rascal 🤣

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I guess I’m a booktok bro

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I have 73% overlap 😂 Mostly WTR or reread in the case of The Blade Itself. I don't see some I'd think of as Bro material, but maybe they're not popular enough. 🤔

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