The winners of the annual TikTok Book Awards UK and Ireland 2024 were announced on 26.07.2024.
The TikTok Book Awards are among the most anticipated in the #BookTok community. This year, over 82,000 people voted for their favorites from the shortlist. The books were selected by a jury composed of some of the biggest names in the world of literature and publishing in the UK.
This year, the awards include several categories, such as Best Book of the Year, Best New Author, and Best Book Content Creator. The winners in these categories were chosen not only for their literary qualities but also for their ability to inspire and unite the #BookTok community.
The winners for 2024 are:
Best Book of the Year:
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell (UK & Ireland)
Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (International)
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom’s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die
Best New Author:
- Talia Hibbert
BookTok Content Creator:
- Maisie (@Maisie_Matilda)
BookTok Rising Star Creator:
- John-Paul (@JPreads6)
Indie Bookshop of the Year:
- The Bookshop by the Sea, Aberystwyth, Wales
TikTok Shop Book of the Year:
- The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore
What do you think of this year’s winners? Do you have any favorite books or authors you would like to see awarded in the future?
