1. Bibliosmia: The smell and aroma of a good book.
2. Abibliophobia: The fear of running out of reading material.
3. Tsundoku: Japanese word for the condition of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them.
4. Shelf-righteous: The feeling of superiority about one’s bookshelf.
5. Librocubicularist: A person who reads in bed.
6. Book-bosomed: An individual who carries a book with them at all times.
7. Ballycumber: Coined by Douglas Adams, this term refers to one of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.
8. Readultery: The act of being unfaithful to one book by reading another at the same time.
9. Angsticipation: The feeling when you finish the latest book in a series and there isn’t a publication date for the next book in the series yet.
10. Bibliolatry: The worship of a particular book or the description of a deity found within a particular book.
Ed. note: The veracity of these words cannot be confirmed.
