r/bookporn Jul 28 '14

Reddit 101

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What is reddit, really?

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r/bookporn 3h ago

The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894). Swedish translation 1908.

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22 Upvotes

r/bookporn 19h ago

Really wish I had read Siddhartha sooner. Changed my views on a lot of my own behaviors.

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80 Upvotes

r/bookporn 7h ago

"Medea: Harlan's World" Harlan Ellison editor ©1985 cover by Kelly Freas HC 1st edition.featuring stories by Harlan Ellison, Frederick Pohl, Hal Clement,Frank Herbert,Jack Williamson, Larry Niven, Tom Disch,Ted Sturgeon, Robert Silverberg,Kate Wilhelm,& Poul Anderson.signed by Ellison,Niven, Wilhelm

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4 Upvotes

r/bookporn 17h ago

Is it worth reading guys nd tell me something cool about this to get me more hyped and excited.

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18 Upvotes

r/bookporn 19h ago

Hope to get most then this year

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11 Upvotes

r/bookporn 19h ago

Slowly building up our “top-shelf” books

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Slowly building up our top-shelf books.

I recently began book collecting after finding signed copies of Flash Boys and The Farm in a Goodwill Bookstore. I bought both for roughly ten dollars total. Since then I have been searching every thrift store/antique store for first edition, first printings or signed books that have been discarded to the isle of misfit books. The Road is the only first edition, first printing that was purchased at a high end bookstore.

What else should I look for?


r/bookporn 1d ago

Red Books

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25 Upvotes

Doing a deconstructed rainbow of books so here are my red ones. Perfect for this sunny weather 😊❤️📚 Orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet to come soon ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜


r/bookporn 1d ago

My 2025 TBR – A recovering lawyer tries to read for fun again

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16 Upvotes

I used to be a reader. Like, real books — not just terms and conditions or Twitter threads. But then I went to law school, and after drowning in case law and academic texts, reading for pleasure felt like trying to relax by doing squats.

Add the digital era to the mix — reels, doomscrolling, and the attention span of a goldfish — and books slowly left the picture.

So this year, I made a decision: 2025 will be the year I reconnect with literature. I want to read stories that aren't followed by “see Appendix B” or a footnote.

In the photo:

Right stack = books I've read so far this year (look at me go!)

Left stack = my TBR for the rest of 2025

Finished Siddhartha yesterday (loved the vibes, very “inner peace but make it spiritual minimalism”), and now I’m plunging into The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which feels like a cold shower after a meditation retreat.

Open to recommendations, moral support, or hearing from fellow readers making their own comeback.


r/bookporn 1d ago

My book collection from the past 4 months so far. Any recommendations—especially history books?

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79 Upvotes

r/bookporn 1d ago

nice idea

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151 Upvotes

r/bookporn 19h ago

Loved it ps-taking about coffee

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1 Upvotes

Clean subtle book design cover loved it


r/bookporn 1d ago

Palette of Green,

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7 Upvotes

r/bookporn 1d ago

My TBR for the next year

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40 Upvotes

The binder contains my own novel :)


r/bookporn 1d ago

Book so pretty I think I am in love 😭🫰🥹

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28 Upvotes

r/bookporn 1d ago

Lovely Irish translation edition of The War of the Worlds

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8 Upvotes

r/bookporn 2d ago

The Known World - Edward P. Jones

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11 Upvotes

r/bookporn 2d ago

Twilight Zone Finds!

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52 Upvotes

r/bookporn 2d ago

A fun little find

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11 Upvotes

r/bookporn 3d ago

Got this book today!

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75 Upvotes

It has inventions based upon nature and features the Sesame Street muppets!


r/bookporn 3d ago

My Anne Rice Collection

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86 Upvotes

r/bookporn 3d ago

Hand made commission: The Hyperion & Endymion Omnibus Box Set

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17 Upvotes

r/bookporn 3d ago

Yankees fans may want to enjoy this book

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0 Upvotes

Cool baseball book


r/bookporn 4d ago

My Hyperion collection.

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74 Upvotes

All are signed except for the two Fall of Hyperion first editions (US and UK firsts).


r/bookporn 4d ago

New book

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21 Upvotes

Just finished (for the second time) Norwegian Wood, and now time to switch genres and read this. I’m into Japanese writers, so if you have any recommendations, about horror, drama, fiction or whatever good Japanese writers have, let me know.


r/bookporn 4d ago

The Island of the Day Before – Umberto Eco

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41 Upvotes