- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- Diggers, by Terry Pratchett
- The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, by Neil Strauss
- The Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin
- Whatever this is
- In Search of Lost Time: Volume I, by Marcel Proust
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
- The Little Book of Happiness, by Patrick Whiteside
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Even if your friend has read this, it’s definitely been placed here to impress people who happen to be perusing the bookshelves. “Just like my author,” this seminal work declares, “my owner is a man of adventure and literary prowess.”
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Unless your friend is 12 years old and the year is 1996, this book is not here for show.
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
This one’s definitely been read, although your friend probably doesn’t realise it’s prominently on display on his bookshelf. Or maybe he does, and this is some sort of convoluted alpha neg peacock game?
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Your friend is an atheist. You probably already knew that. Your friend has also never read this book.
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Your guess is as good as ours! It doesn’t look like you can read it, but why would anyone want to put it on display?
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
In fairness, your friend started reading this after watching Little Miss Sunshine, but didn’t get very far. Now it’s just here to look good.
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Yes, its presence on the bookshelf is predictable, but your friend has read it twice, and regularly lends it to his friends, so there’s no element of showmanship here.
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
He’s read it!
Just for show!
Just for show!
Just for show!
This was a present from a family member several Christmases ago. Your friend hasn’t read it, but hasn’t bothered to throw it out either, and isn’t exactly proud of the message it’s sending to people like you. Perhaps he’ll go through his shelves one day and do a cull. Not today, but one day. Perhaps.
You don’t appear to understand the purpose of bookshelves. Sure, it’s a place to store books you own, but it’s also a vital component of interior decoration and personal branding. Learn the difference before someone more important than an internet quiz discovers your incompetence.
Look, you were probably trying to be generous, and that’s admirable. But if you’re honest with yourself, you’re unlikely to be surprised by most of the answers you got wrong.
This is about as good a score as you could reasonably be expected to have posted. Any higher and your friend might wonder how you know so much about his reading history. And judging by the contents of his bookshelf, that’s not something you want your friend to wonder.
Either your friend is really transparent, or you’re a creep. We’re thinking it’s the latter, since this “friend” is actually a made up person in an internet quiz, so you couldn’t possibly have based your answers on things he’d said previously at the pub or on the croquet lawn.
