Chances are, if you’ve been on BookTok, Bookstagram, or any online forum for readers, you’ve seen a lot of acronyms. Some are more general lingo (check out our post on that here) but others stand for book titles! This is your guide to what books the alphabet soup you’ve seen represents.
In general, the more words there are in a book title, the more likely that there is a commonly used acronym for the novel in question.
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And now, the “What Book That Acronym Stands For” List
(As a disclaimer, we have not read all of these books, so we can’t necessarily recommend everything on here.)
But without further ado, let’s get to it:
A
ACOTAR = A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
(Note: pretty much anything that starts with ACO is “A Court of” something-or-other.)
AGAD = As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
AGGGTM = A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
(Check out our post of the best quotes from this book!)
ASOIAF = A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
ASOUE = A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket
B
BTTM = Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter
C
CYKAS = Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
D
DJATS = Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
G
GGBB = Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
GOT = Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin
H
HMC = Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
HOFAS = House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
I
IEWU = It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
L
LOTR = Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
O
OOUIL = One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
P
PWMOV = People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
R
RWARB (also RWRB) = Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
S
SOC = Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
T
TATBILB = To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
TBOSAS = The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
TCP = The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
THG = The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
TIHYLTTW = This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
TILOAL = The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
TLH = The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
TMI = The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
TSBU = The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
TSITP = The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
TVD = These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (or The Vampire Diaries, which is a TV show and book series)
W
WFTS = We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal
WHTF = We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
Y
YRS = You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
