26 More Neologisms for Booklovers

The last lot were so popular, I decided to do it again.

Adversion
The condition of really wanting not to read the advertisements on every bus shelter and billboard you pass, but being unable to help yourself.

Boredoom
The fate you meet when, for one of your classes, you inescapably must read a book so tedious it could cure insomnia.

Chapterse
Consisting of chapters short enough to be read in a single television ad break.

Dollarous
Feeling depressed over the high price of books.

Early yawning
The first hint that a book will be less than fabulous, in the form of a moment of eye-glazing dullness before page 50.

Fictionista
Someone whose choice of reading material is invariably whatever novel the critics have just been raving about.

Gastrotome
Memoir recounting the author’s love of food, discovery of the joy of food, resolution of their psychological issues regarding food, exotic journeys with a focus on food, professional career involving food...

Harmoany
Universal agreement that a particular book, or aspect thereof, is just plain bad.

Inkquisitive
Chronically curious about what other people are reading.

Jumperuse
To skip ahead in a book and read passages from random points further on.

Knitwit
Ingenuity applied to devising a way of simultaneously reading and doing handicrafts.

Literating
Assessing the merit of a tv show as being inversely proportional to the amount you read while it’s on.

Missteria
An adamant refusal to read a book the whole world’s going nuts over, no matter how good it might be.

Nostoryous
Infamous for writing novels in which next to nothing actually happens.

Oblivisong
State in which you become so absorbed in a book as to lose awareness not only of what’s on the radio, but of the fact that you’re singing it.

Page yearner
A book that leaves you wishing there was more.

Quantalie
“No, honey, I haven’t bought any more books this month ... What? That stack behind the aspidistra? Oh no, those have been there for ages....”

Railread
A book you read while commuting, but never pick up when at home.

Scriptic
Printed in a typeface that leaves you peering at the page trying to work out what on earth it says.

Twilite
A pale imitation of a wildly successful novel or series.

Uncohoardination
Literary chaos in the shape of a mountain of TBR books stored in no particular order.

Villain’t
Literary bad guy who shows a disappointing lack of nastiness.

Wait-litted
Number 46 in the library hold queue.

X factoid
A quote or piece of information you know you’ve read somewhere, but whose source you simply cannot remember.

Yogain
The stretching necessary to ease muscles aching from lugging home your latest bookstore purchases or library borrowings.

Zooillogical
Featuring an animal which behaves in an unnatural way, thereby displaying the author’s lack of acquaintance with the breed or species in question.