I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf
What does your bookshelf say about you?
Today’s selection from 15 years of Incidental Comics is the title comic from I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF.
BOOKSHELF was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist in 2020, a year where one of the few pleasures was peeking into someone’s office or living room over a zoom call to see what they were reading—or pretending to have read.
This comic originally appeared on The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts page. Kudos to my twin brother Gavin for telling me the catch phrase from this comic would make a perfect title for a book about books. Little did we know how prescient it would be…
For more comics about reading, writing and book hoarding, purchase I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF from your favorite independent bookstore or find it online wherever you get your books.
Happy Summer Reading!
I’m crying with laughter. This is so delightfully funny, I love this so much! The worst is when you invite fellow writers over, having enthused over their choice of books when at their house (fakely or not), and they don’t even look at yours. Thank you do your unceasingly wonderful mind and artistry.
Enjoyed your approach to this. I used to give assignments to student in an Environmental (Not ecological) Psychology class to do this. You can learn a lot by the environment people choose to live in.! I liked your categories based on the number of books an book case organization.