bookish
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To compile our expansive list we surveyed more than 200 bookish luminaries — along with a few zealous book club members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Plenty of members of bookish communities attribute it to plain old greed, but there’s also something more: influencer brain, a pernicious strain of main-character complex.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
This would become the definitive form of the 18th-century American plantation house; George Washington’s Mount Vernon is the most famous example, and the original Monticello was a similarly bookish performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Like her bookish character, she did extensive research on “Pride and Prejudice,” Austen and the time period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Barristan Selmy was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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