Sexy spines or literary red flags?

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Maybe you can't judge books by their covers. But can you judge people by their books? Reddit's bookshelf detectives say yes. Producer Kalyani Saxena guides hosts Ben and Amory through the stacks and offers a picture of her own bookshelf to the Reddit detectives as tribute.

r/BookshelvesDetective (Reddit)
Started seeing this guy. What does it say about him??
(r/BookshelvesDetective)What do my wife's bookshelves say about her? (r/BookshelvesDetective)
What’s his bookshelf say about him? (r/BookshelvesDetective)
Snoop our bookshelves! (r/EndlessThread)

This episode was produced by Kalyani Saxena and Grace Tatter. It was co-hosted by Kalyani Saxena, Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, and edited by Meg Cramer. Mix and sound design by Marquis Neal.

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.5	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.5	From rags to riches.
0:05.8	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.1	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.7	Poor climbers, you and me.
0:12.4	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.4	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:16.9	A woman of substance on Channel 4.
0:19.1	Stream now.
0:19.8	Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from the Marotra Institute at
0:26.0	BU Questrum School of Business. A recent episode features Federal Reserve Governor Stephen
0:31.6	Myron, an architect of President Trump's tariff policy. Stick around until the end of this
0:37.2	podcast to preview the episode. WBUR. President Trump's tariff policy. Stick around until the end of this podcast
0:37.6	to preview the
0:38.6	episode.
0:40.9	WBUR Podcasts,
0:43.3	Boston.
0:43.6	Thank you. Amory Seabriton, can you read?
1:00.0	Yeah, last I checked.
1:02.2	I can still read, although I read before bed, which means I make it two paragraphs and then...
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