When I was younger, I loved fantasy novels and young adult fiction but one of the reasons why I eventually stopped reading them was that I rarely found anything with good queer representation. The good news is that most of these books are also available on Audible (or sometimes even YouTube) in several languages for anyone with special requirements, with a busy schedule – as all of us Oxford students do – or whose attention span has been ruined by social media.īookTok is a niche on TikTok where people show what books they are currently reading, recommend their favourites or record themselves having mental breakdowns to the song “Achilles, Come Down”.Įither way, as soon as I discovered BookTok, I went even further down the rabbit hole and discovered something even better: gay BookTok.
So, there are certain BookTok favourites that every true BookToker must have read at least once.
As always on TikTok, if something blows up, suddenly everyone is buying it. So, one day, it must have been sometime earlier this year, I found myself on TikTok (when I was definitely not procrastinating but merely taking a break from psychologically analysing Marcel’s characters in Combray for an essay), and stumbled across this phenomenon called “BookTok”.Īs many of you probably already know, BookTok is a niche on TikTok where people show what books they are currently reading, recommend their favourites or record themselves having mental breakdowns to the song “Achilles, Come Down”. But I’m sure a lot of literature and language students will agree when I say that sometimes we just need something different, something that is not Marcel Proust describing a roof in the sunlight for seven volumes straight (not to call him straight or complain about his books, his descriptions are impeccable). Even in between terms and during summer holidays I find myself trying to complete the massive reading lists, which is usually fun, since I actually like my course. Image description: a large wooden book case with many booksĪs a French student at Oxford, I do a lot of reading, whether it be entire volumes of poetry, chunky novels, philosophical texts or the “Cambridge Companion to _” when the next essay crisis is just around the corner.
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