Sexy spines or literary red flags?

About this episode

The episode explores how people's book choices can reflect their personalities, guided by Reddit's bookshelf detectives.

Maybe you can't judge books by their covers. But can you judge people by their books? Reddit's bookshelf detectives say yes. Producer Kalyani Saxena guides hosts Ben and Amory through the stacks and offers a picture of her own bookshelf to the Reddit detectives as tribute. r/BookshelvesDetective (Reddit) Started seeing this guy. What does it say about him?? (r/BookshelvesDetective) What do my wife's bookshelves say about her? (r/BookshelvesDetective) What’s his bookshelf say about him? (r/BookshelvesDetective) Snoop our bookshelves! (r/EndlessThread) This episode was produced by Kalyani Saxena and Grace Tatter. It was co-hosted by Kalyani Saxena, Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, and edited by Meg Cramer. Mix and sound design by Marquis Neal. *** Sponsor message: INCOGNI: Take back your personal data with Incogni! Use code ENDLESS at the link below and get 60% off annual plans: https://incogni.com/ENDLESS

People in this episode

Hosts: Kalyani Saxena, Ben Brock Johnson, Amory Sivertson

Topics covered

• books
• Reddit
• relationships
• judgment
• bookshelves
• literature

Keywords

• books
• Reddit
• bookshelves
• personality
• judgment
• literature
• relationships

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Reddit

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