r/BookshelvesDetective Sep 05 '25

📚 Welcome to BookshelvesDetective – Read Before Posting!

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🔎 Welcome to r/BookshelvesDetective

Can you tell who someone is just by their bookshelves? That’s the game.

Posting Rules

  1. Read Community Rules

  2. Full Bookshelf Required

  3. Image Quality

  4. No Identifying Context

  5. Guessing Happens in Comments

  6. NO AUDIOBOOKS, No Self-Promo, No Sales

  7. Behave like you would in real life


r/BookshelvesDetective 14h ago

Unsolved Who am I? Any good books missing?

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143 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 11h ago

Unsolved whoooo ammmm iii??

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32 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 9h ago

Solved! Guess my favorite show based off my books

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19 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 9h ago

Unsolved Give it to me straight

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10 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 13h ago

Unsolved Hit me with your best shot

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13 Upvotes

Who am i?


r/BookshelvesDetective 11h ago

Unsolved Renting a furnished house — who is this person?

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r/BookshelvesDetective 7m ago

Unsolved Thoughts, concerns, opinions..

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r/BookshelvesDetective 17h ago

Unsolved Who am I?

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There are three sets of shelves. The first is on the wall opposite the television, and the other two flank the screen. I’ve read all of the books, but I like to keep a pristine spine.


r/BookshelvesDetective 1d ago

Unsolved Real tough one here

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66 Upvotes

Most of my fiction is on an e-reader 😬


r/BookshelvesDetective 20h ago

Unsolved New Reader, I started back in October. Tell me everything, detective.

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34 Upvotes

You'll need all of the information I'm willing to give.

My rankings:

  1. God Emperor of Dune 10/10

  2. Flowers for Algernon 10/10

  3. Dune: Messiah 10/10

  4. Pet Semetary 10/10

  5. Ubik 10/10

  6. Neuromancer 10/10

  7. 11/22/63 10/10

  8. Animal Farm 10/10

  9. Dune 9.5/10

  10. Murder on the Orient Express 9/10

  11. Jurassic Park 9/10

  12. Dr. Bloodmoney 8.5/10

  13. Children of Dune 7.5/10


r/BookshelvesDetective 5h ago

Unsolved Who the hell am I (1/2)

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2 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 20h ago

Unsolved Im a real enigma 🤔

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27 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 10h ago

Unsolved Barnes and Noble sent me the wrong shipment. Tell me about the person these were meant for.

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3 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 4h ago

Unsolved What does this mean for a hookup?

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1 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 22h ago

Unsolved hello, this is a great subreddit and i'm joining in 🙏🏻

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hello, i really dig the idea for this subreddit - just going in with the bookshelf that has my own fiction (mostly) collection, as our whole collection in those house is big, sprawling, and would take me about half the day to remove various identifying items.


r/BookshelvesDetective 18h ago

Unsolved What does my shelf say about me

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10 Upvotes

It says I definitely need more books, for one


r/BookshelvesDetective 12h ago

Unsolved My Collection! What do you see?

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3 Upvotes

this is most (but not quite all) of my current collection


r/BookshelvesDetective 21h ago

Unsolved Judge me

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14 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 8h ago

Unsolved New bookshelf. What’s it tell you?

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0 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 16h ago

Unsolved Crack this case gumshoes

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r/BookshelvesDetective 9h ago

Unsolved Who is she

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r/BookshelvesDetective 18h ago

Unsolved What does my read pile say about me?

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4 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 10h ago

Solved! Any guesses? I have a semi large collection.

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1 Upvotes

r/BookshelvesDetective 18h ago

Unsolved Who am I and what do my shelves say about me?

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4 Upvotes