The 12 People You Meet On Bookstagram

1. The café bookstagrammer. #HipsterBookstagram

Fans of coffee and tattered paperbacks by authors you’ve never heard of. Endlessly striving to achieve the correct level of effortlessness, no matter how many hundreds of photos they take in the process. “Oh, this old photo? I just snapped it at brunch the other day on my way to the local farmer’s market.”

2. The “Do you even read?” bookstagrammer. #YouDontNeedThose

Perhaps the most confusing bookstagrammer. They talk about book design, book collecting, and book hauls—basically anything but reading. These bookstagrammers are very sneaky, because you’ll be following for months before you realize they’ve never posted a review, wrap-up, or even mentioned their current read. Mind: blown. 

3. The “Do you do anything BUT read?” bookstagrammer. #GOALS

We all follow at least one person whose monthly wrap-ups look less like a book stack and more like a full-on shelfie. Typically I enjoy living vicariously through their insane reading skills, but every once in awhile they’ll say something like “Had a busy weekend, so I could only read five books!” and then I’m just mad.

4. The neutral bookstagrammer.  #50ShadesofBeige

Champions of lattes, reclaimed wood, and chunky knits. You can spot these bookstagrammers fighting the good fight against the horrors of the book spine and stacking their books (they never seem to own shelves and it’s confusing AF) with the pages facing OUT.

5. The cliquey bookstagrammers. #YouCantSitWithUs

Forever mentioning their BFFs, bragging about the bookish gifts they received, and generally just reminding you what a loner you are. Easily spotted by the way they keep tagging each other in their Insta stories: “Susan, look at this neat bookshop I found!” SO many questions here: Why do you have to communicate via Instagram stories when your message is only for one person? Have you heard of direct messaging?”

6. The aggressive bookstagrammer. #HoldMyEarrings

These are the ones who use Instagram stories as an outlet for righteous anger and political tirades. They like to follow up their more belligerent assertions with something like: “And if anyone disagrees they can go ahead and unfollow me!” But, if you take them up on their word and do, in fact, unfollow, chances are high that they’ll complain about that, too.

7. The politician bookstagrammer. #Positivity

The polar opposite of the aggressive bookstagrammer, this person just wants everyone to like them. They LOVE every book they read, they agree with every single comment on their account, and they give shout outs to basically everyone they follow.