One can barely talk about books or a booklist without mentioning Booktok – the TikTok app phenomenon that has quite literally saved the book industry the world over, particularly in a post-Covid reality.
Exclusive Books Recommends for October is no different, with the Booktok author featured – Taylor Jenkins Reid, with Carrie Soto is Back.
Booktok is all about how books make you feel, rather than literary merit or plot. Jenkins Reid favours the ambitious women trope – so you can expect the feel of fierce female protagonist like Evelyn from Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Carrie Soto too.
Jenkins Reid also weaves characters from previous novels into this new one, so, as you turn the pages, you feel like you are bumping into old friends.
“BookTok is rekindling a love of reading in the young! TikTok community blossoms over the past two years to become popular, trendy and influential. Challenge: BookTok pushes readers to read books and share their thoughts on the app.” – Monique Verduyn
“Soapie or not, this author’s novels are veritable page-turners. Colleen Hoover shot to fame after someone drew attention to ‘Verity’. She now has three Exclusive Books best-sellers.” – Jennifer Platt
TikTok has also created a #BookTok Book Club (in mid-July), where Persuasion was the book club book of the month - you can read more about it here: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/the-tiktok-bookclub
The Exclusive Books online page can be found here: https://www.exclusivebooks.co.za/page/booktok-made-me-read-it
Fanatics members earn a whopping 200 bonus points on their purchases from the list during October.
Exclusive Books recommended titles are merchandised in front of all their stores every month and are carefully curated in different categories.
The aim is to assist customers to see at a glance, and in a short space of time, titles that are new, trending and have caught the eyes of the Exclusive Books buyers in among 1000’s of titles.
There are choices for all genre tastes, and now the dedicated EBR for children will offer an even wider and deeper rage for younger readers. Exclusive Books Recommends - Exclusive Books
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