I’m sorry I failed to analyze everyone’s bookshelves as promised but your books are all lovely and you’re all awesome people!

For the record here are some heuristics I was planning to use, rate yourself:

- Litfic and genre fic that isn’t sci-fi/fantasy skew femme
- Very high brow male-authored Litfic skews masc
- over representation by either men or women skews to the aligned gender
- Presence of any non-mechanical technical manual skews masc and STEM/tech

- Fantasy/Sci-fi written by women skews femme, otherwise masc
- Rand, Econ books, finance skews right of center political
- Books on gender, race, or social dynamics skew left of center political
- Books on gardening or self-sufficiency suggest a prepper streak

- anything on gender theory or sex and you’re probably not entirely straight
- bible with no other religious texts skews conservative, but with others suggests you like philosophy

- Mystery or Romance skews very very femme
- self help books skew femme unless they’re about money, influence, or power, then masc
- occult books skew femme, especially tarot or astrology, but if they’re really esoteric or tech/adjacent they skew masc

- Books about other countries suggest travel
- classic lit that isn’t Dostoevksy, Hemingway, or Kerouac skews femme and suggests you at least flirted with the idea of an English major or minor
- classic Pulp skews male 30+ and you probably play videogames

- books on crime or serial killers skew femme
- books on military history or tactics skew masc
- cookbooks are gender neutral but if you have more than 1 on a bookshelf you’re really into cooking and might be a foodie
- lots of color and flowing script visually apparent is femme

- Harry Potter suggests younger than 30, Robert Jordan suggests older than 25, Asimov is masc 25+ and you’re STEM for sure, Palahniuk says you’re middle or working class

- Classic lit by women skews hard femme except Woolfe which is more neutral but means you’re quirky, English oriented, or gender nonconforming

- Proust, Infinite Jest, Gravity’s Rainbow, or Joyce’s later work means you’d better be an English major or have an IQ over 145–else you haven’t read it and you’re being pretentious

- Dune skews male, Kushiel skews femme or GNC, Chick lit obviously skews hard femme
- books on American history skew male/conservative unless they’re character dramas in which case they skew female with no political affiliation

- Poetry skews femme unless you’re an English major
- Plath skews femme
- Huxley other than Brave New World skews masc

I hope you’ve all enjoyed this thread of lazy, gut level stereotypes