TLDR: 23 year old man finds out books exist from TikTok and suddenly wants to read. So now he’s posting on Reddit because none of his peers read either.
So… apart from required reading in my school years, I have never picked up a book for the soul purpose of entertainment. There has always been some sort of essay or grade surrounding it that gave me purpose to read. I’m not sure if it was school or some other factors but it has absolutely tarnished my will to just sit and read a good book.
So now, I’ve graduated from college and binged all the shows shoved in my direction from the endless abyss which is the internet (mixed with the emptiness which was Zach Snyder’s newest movie “Rebel Moon” and its absolute blatant neglect for world building effectively), I’m ready to embark on this new journey which involves the effort of turning pages instead of pressing play.
Like many other people I find myself scrolling through TikTok a lot. And recently, my fyp has been sending me into the realm of BookTok. The only problem is I have no clue where to start. Each video give me several different books of several different genres and it feels like too much information, like there’s too many books to read in the world and each sounds more interesting than the last. In pure TikTok fashion I feel overwhelmed by options and have resorted to come to this community in the hopes I’m not the only one.
Now that I’m over all the dumb moral dilemmas of my situation I might as well give you guys the genres I like.
I’m an avid anime viewer, so I’ll use the shows I watch to frame my tastes. I’m really into more fantasy stuff, isekais were super interesting for me to watch. As well as futuristic mecha series. Code Geass and Gundam to name a few. And to top it off, I’m a huge romance fan. Any story with a lovely, well rounded romance subplot is an A+ in my book. Hell, it could even be the main plot.
Other than recommendations, I would also love to learn how you keep track of books you want to read and the ones you have read. Like an app or something? That’d be awesome.
Given all that I’m sure I’ve come to the right place to get at least some idea of where to start. Thanks again for reading if you made it this far.
by -N030-