Is Your Bookshelf Foidslop?
Seven questions about the book on your nightstand. Be honest about the tabs.

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What's the book you're reading right now about?
- A war between two kingdoms, but mostly the fae prince
- A woman who moves to a small town and opens a bakery
- A murder, solved by someone who isn't a detective
- The fall of the Byzantine Empire
Look at the edges of the pages.
- Sprayed purple, with little stars
- Plain, but there's a character art bookmark in it
- Plain
- Yellowed. I got it at a used bookshop
How many sticky tabs are in it?
- Color-coded, with a key inside the front cover
- A few, for the good parts
- One, to mark my page
- None. I fold the corner down
Where did you hear about it?
- BookTok, from someone crying in a parked car
- A friend who wouldn't stop talking about it
- The bestseller table at the airport
- A podcast where a man says he reads four books a week
How do you feel about the love interest?
- I'd let him ruin my life
- He's fine. The banter is better
- There's a love interest?
- There isn't one. It's about a submarine
How many books are in the series?
- Five so far, and the next one is 900 pages
- Three. A trilogy, as it should be
- It's a standalone
- It's nonfiction
What's next to it on the shelf?
- A candle and a little crystal
- A Labubu
- A plant I'm keeping alive
- A book about Stoicism and a tub of protein
All 4 possible results
- Not Foidslop, That's a Reading List
- Nonfiction, a used copy and no tabs. You read like someone who reviews books for a newspaper.
- Airport Bookstore Reader
- A thriller here, a bakery romance there. You're not in the fandom, but you know what everyone's talking about.
- BookTok Adjacent
- You've cried at a scene you saw out of context on TikTok, then bought the book to find out why. A few tabs, a lot of feelings.
- Sprayed Edges, Full Commitment
- Color-coded tabs, a candle on the shelf and strong opinions about a man with wings. Your bookshelf is foidslop and it looks great.
Then vote on these
All votes →-
Is romantasy foidslop?Fantasy novels where the war for the kingdom matters less than whether the two leads end up in the same tent.
Our take: FoidslopNeeds votes -
Is Twilight foidslop?The 2008 vampire romance that people made fun of for years and now rewatch every fall, half ironically.
Our take: FoidslopNeeds votes -
Is Heated Rivalry foidslop?A hockey romance between two rival players that started as a novel, became a TV show, and turned a lot of people who don't watch hockey into people who talk about hockey.
Our take: Too close to callNeeds votes