This Quiz Will Reveal Your Book Taste 📚✨ — Because Every Reader Is a Different Kind of Reader

📚 Hello, lovely reader 

There are many ways to know yourself. Your coffee order. Your Hogwarts house. How you react when someone bends a page corner.

But perhaps none is more revealing — or more delightful — than your book taste.

The way you read, the stories you reach for, the characters you fall for and the worlds you never quite leave — these things say something real about who you are. And we think you deserve to know exactly what kind of reader you are, in full, glorious, bookish detail.

Answer the questions below honestly. Your results await. 📖

🌿 Part One: How Do You Actually Read?

1. It's a rainy Saturday with no obligations. You:

A — Make tea, find your reading corner, and don't surface for four hours 🍵
B — Start a new book, get distracted theorising about the ending, start another book
C — Re-read a favourite because new books are a commitment and comfort is underrated
D — Listen to an audiobook while doing something else, because you can multitask

2. How do you choose your next book?

A — I have a carefully curated TBR and I follow it almost religiously
B — I see someone cry about a book on BookTok and immediately buy it
C — A trusted friend recommends it and I trust them with my whole heart
D — I walk into a bookshop and let the cover choose me

3. Your relationship with a series cliffhanger is:

A — I wait patiently and trust the author. (Brave. Heroic.)
B — I immediately look up spoilers and then feel guilty about it
C — Physical distress. I need the next book immediately and I will not be calm until I have it
D — I set the book down, go for a walk, and return when I've processed

🌙 Part Two: The Stories You Love

4. What makes a love interest truly unforgettable?

A — Complicated. Morally grey. Has a tragic backstory they haven't told anyone
B — Witty, warm, and the kind of person who remembers every small thing you say
C — Someone who would burn the world down for you, but makes you question whether that's romantic
D — A slow burn so drawn out it physically hurts, resolved in the most satisfying way possible

5. Your ideal fictional world is:

A — A dangerous, intricately built fantasy kingdom with politics, power, and magic
B — The real world, but slightly heightened — more beautiful, more emotionally charged
C — A dark academic institution where knowledge is dangerous and everyone is hiding something
D — A cosy, specific community — a small town, an island, a village — where everyone knows everyone

6. What do you need from the ending of a book?

A — Earned resolution. I want everything I invested to mean something
B — Emotional catharsis. I want to cry in a satisfying way, not a devastating one
C — A twist I didn't see coming that reframes everything that came before
D — I want to feel like I'm leaving friends behind — like the world goes on without me

🎭 Part Three: The Reader You Are

7. Your reading environment of choice is:

A — Somewhere dramatic — a window in the rain, a candlelit corner, a scenic train
B — My bed, with multiple pillows arranged just so and no interruptions
C — A café or library — I like ambient noise and feeling part of something
D — Honestly anywhere. A book is a book. I've read in stranger places than you'd imagine

8. When a book breaks your heart, you:

A — Sit with it. Let it be. This is what literature is for
B — Immediately text someone who has also read it and process at length
C — Start the re-read immediately because you need to catch the foreshadowing you missed
D — Need a palate cleanser — something warm and uncomplicated — before you can move on

✨ YOUR RESULTS

🌙 Mostly A's — The Romantasy Devotee

You live for worlds that are beautiful and dangerous in equal measure. You want magic that has real stakes, love interests who are complicated in meaningful ways, and a story that takes itself seriously without losing its heart. You have strong opinions about slow burns. You have re-read at least one book more than three times. You are exactly the reader the genre was built for.

Your next read: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, or Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros if somehow you haven't yet.

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💛 Mostly B's — The Contemporary Heart

You want to feel things in the most recognisably human way possible. Your books are about people — real-feeling people making real-feeling choices in worlds that look a lot like ours, but rendered with the emotional clarity that only fiction provides. You've cried on public transport because of a book and you'd do it again.

Your next read: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry, or Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross.

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🖤 Mostly C's — The Dark Academia Soul

You want atmosphere. You want secrets. You want a story that rewards careful, close reading and doesn't explain everything in the final chapter. You are comfortable with moral ambiguity. You have very strong feelings about libraries. You may have a playlist titled something like studying at midnight in a Gothic university.

Your next read: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, or Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson.

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🌸 Mostly D's — The Cosy Literary Reader

You read to feel held. You want warmth and specificity and stories that understand the texture of ordinary life. You believe that small moments are where the real meaning lives, and your favourite books probably have a sense of place so vivid you could draw a map. You recommend books thoughtfully and take the recommendations personally.

Your next read: A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross, Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber, or The Mirror of Infinite Endings by Stephanie Garber when it arrives.

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💙 One More Thing

Whatever your result — whatever kind of reader you are — the most important thing is that you are one. That books have shaped something in you. That you reach for stories the way other people reach for music or film or art.

At The Bean Workshop, we exist for every kind of reader on this list — and every reader who is some impossible, wonderful combination of all four.

Our collections are made for the way you read, the worlds you love, and the reader you are becoming.

Happy reading, happy discovering, and happy knowing yourself a little better. 📚✨