About Book Addict
Who We Are
Book Addict started as a simple problem: too many books, too many opinions online, and not enough time to sort the genuine reader reactions from the hype machine. We’re a community of readers who got tired of clicking into a book cold, only to find out after 300 pages that the internet had been fighting about the exact thing that bothered us.
So we started tracking down what readers actually say — across Goodreads, Reddit, BookTok, Amazon, wherever book discourse lives and breathes. Our community compiles it, organizes it, and makes sense of the patterns.
Not reviews. Not opinions about whether a book is “good.” Intelligence reports on what everyone else thinks, so you can make your own call before you commit.
What We Cover
We investigate books that are generating noise online — viral titles, divisive fan favorites, BookTok phenomena, debut novels that came out of nowhere. We follow the discourse, not the bestseller list (though those often overlap).
For each book, we dig into:
- Where the debates are happening and why they’re so heated
- What the 5-star and 1-star reviewers are actually arguing about
- What the audiobook community thinks (often different from the print readers)
- Whether the BookTok hype is real or manufactured
- What you’re walking into before you start a 600-page series
Plus a thematically appropriate cocktail pairing, because reading discourse without a drink is just homework.
The Cocktail Correspondent
Our main voice is the Cocktail Correspondent — a reporting persona in the tradition of beat reporters who follow a specific beat obsessively. This particular beat is book discourse, and it’s a weird one. Part literary criticism, part internet anthropology, part cocktail menu.
The Cocktail Correspondent doesn’t rate books. Doesn’t tell you whether they personally liked something. Tells you what the conversation looks like from the outside — the full picture, sourced and linked, so you can make up your own mind.
Our Community
Our community spans every kind of reader: people who buy three books before finishing one, people who have been on the library waitlist for the same title for four months, people who’ve read every book their BookTok feed recommended and regret exactly half of them.
We’re independent. No affiliate deals, no publisher relationships, no sponsored content. What we cover is driven by what’s generating interesting reader conversation — nothing else.
Got Intel?
If you’ve spotted a book that’s generating interesting discourse we should investigate, or if you think we got something wrong in one of our reports, we’d genuinely like to hear it: tips@bookaddict.me
We don’t take assignments (we follow the discourse, not a reading list), but we’re always interested in knowing where the fights are happening. Our community’s tips have pointed us to some of the most interesting book conversations we’ve covered.
Book Addict is independently operated. No affiliate relationships, publisher deals, or promotional arrangements influence what we cover or how we cover it.