You Are Not Your Bookshelf (a poem by Jeff O'Neal)

Jeff O'Neal is the editor of Book Riot. Follow him on Twitter: @readingape

You are not the books on your shelf.
You are not the books you have read.
You are not the books you haven’t read.
You are not what books people think you have read.
You are not the books you are supposed to have read.
You are not the books you always meant to read.
You are not the books you hate.
You are not the books you dismiss.

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