Pictures Of You At Your Bookshelf Are Called Bookshelfies And They're Totally A Real Thing

The selfie – that photograph you take of yourself with your smartphone by stretching out your arm in front you – has a competitor in the "bookshelfie." It's what you think it is: pictures of people in front of their bookcases, providing a little blurb about the books they have.

The trend has gotten so big, there's already a Tumblr dedicated to them.

We've pulled out a few below, but you can check out the Bookshelfies Tumblr here.

Bookshelfies

russellquinn: “I’ve no idea why we all have to wear sunglasses.”

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• A Moment In The Sun by John Sayles
• The Instructions by Adam Levin
• Black Hole by Charles Burns

Bookshelfies

My name is Myriam Gurba and some of the books in my shelfie are

• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Roget’s Thesaurus
• Artemis In Echo Park by Eloise Klein Healy
• King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
• The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
• The Wrestling Party by Bett Williams
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Bookshelfies

“Yessss,” says maxfenton in front of three copies of The Instructions.

BookshelfiesJiz Lee: “I loan/give away a lot of books so my shelves are sparse… but here’s my current bookshelfie (#showmeyourtitles)”:

• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Girlvert by Oriana Small
  
• Feed by Mira Grant
  
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler
  
• The Feminist Porn Book (Anthology)
  
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami