Bibliologist Application | TBR

Interested in becoming a Bibliologist for TBR? You’re in the right place!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to building an inclusive workforce and strongly encourage applications from women and other marginalized genders, individuals with disabilities, Indigenous people, and people of color.

Please note that due to the high volume of applications we receive, we cannot respond to each one. We’re currently accepting applicants on a rolling basis. If you are accepted, you’ll hear back within one month of submitting your application.

Pay: Bibliologists are paid $7.50 per order, with an average of 20 minutes processing time per order expected (~$22.50/hour base).

We pay on the payment platform PayPal. You must have a PayPal account to be eligible to be a contributor. If you have a PayPal account, great! If you do not have a PayPal account, you will need one. Please verify that PayPal is supported in your country prior to applying.

Location: Remote; must be able to accept payment via Paypal (see above)

Time Commitment: New bibliologists commit to fulfilling 6 orders per week, minimum. Picks are due 5 business days after assigned.

Bibliologist Application

Name(Required)
Pronouns
In which genres/categories do you have expertise and interest?(Required)
Please check all that apply.
Let us know who sent you our way!

Give Some Recommendations!

Bibliologists select books for TBR customers based on their likes, dislikes, and other reading habits and preferences, via a Recommendation Letter. Each customer is given three (3) book options per Recommendation. “Hardcover” customers’ book recommendations must be currently available in hardcover; “Recs Only” customers recommendations can be in any format. We’ve invented three TBR Customer Profiles for you to review below. Please read through each of them. You will then be asked to choose one to write a full Recommendation Letter for, and to give book picks for the other two. Reminder: Every set of recommendations should feature traditionally marginalized voices.
CUSTOMER ONE – RECS ONLY

Is there anything you want to explore more of in your reading life?
More heart-warming reads, please.

What are the last few books you really loved?
The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

How should your bibliologist balance books that fit your current style with picks that branch out?
Mix of familiar and stretch

Are you looking for recommendations on a certain theme?
No

What are your favorite genres?
I like everything!

Anything else you want your bibliologist to know before they pick your books?
No.

What are your all-time favorite books?
Howl’s Moving Castle, Jodi Picoult, Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie

Any books you absolutely hated?
Where the Crawdad Sings

What are a few of your favorite TV shows and/or movies?
Bridgerton, Yellowjackets, This Is Us

Any types of content you’d like your Bibliologist to warn you about?

Any types of content that are dealbreakers for you? Your Bibliologist will exclude books containing these.
Nothing sad or violent, no harm to children or animals or women

What is your preferred reading format? (Print, ebook, audiobook, Braille)
Ebook or audio
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CUSTOMER TWO – HARDCOVERS

Is there anything you want to explore more of in your reading life?
Nonfiction, marginalized voices

What are the last few books you really loved?
The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson, A Little Devil In America, A Master Of Djinn, Harlem Shuffle, The Accomplice, Battle Royal, Alexis Hall, Front Desk, Black Love Matters, Hola Papi, Not My Problem

How should your bibliologist balance books that fit your current style with picks that branch out?
Expand my literary horizons

Are you looking for recommendations on a certain theme?
I prefer a mix of things

What are your favorite genres?
I read all genres and age groups and love graphic novels

Anything else you want your bibliologist to know before they pick your books?
I read light to dark books so any is fine but 1 on the light side please.

What are your all-time favorite books?
Way too many to list but Matilda, Sherry Thomas’ Lady Sherlock

Any books you absolutely hated?
The Wife/ The Girls Weekend

What are a few of your favorite TV shows and/or movies?
Sex Lives Of College Girls/ Schitt’s Creek/ detective mysteries

Any types of content you’d like your Bibliologist to warn you about?

Any types of content that are dealbreakers for you? Your Bibliologist will exclude books containing these.
Heavy Christian fiction

What is your preferred reading format? (Print, ebook, audiobook, Braille)
I read print, ebook, audiobook (prefer nonfic and romance to have an audiobook option)
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CUSTOMER THREE – HARDCOVERS

Is there anything you want to explore more of in your reading life?
mysteries!

What are the last few books you really loved?
City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty, Feed by Mira Grant, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

How should your bibliologist balance books that fit your current style with picks that branch out?
Mix of familiar and stretch reads

Are you looking for recommendations on a certain theme?
I love fantasy but I want to branch out to try mysteries too. I’ve read a few cozy mysteries and they haven’t been my jam.

What are your favorite genres?
Fantasy, sci-fi, YA but I’ve read a lot of that, speculative fiction, horror

Anything else you want your bibliologist to know before they pick your books?
No

What are your all-time favorite books?
Spinning Silver- Naomi Novik, Six of Crows- Leigh Bardugo, The Girl With All the Gifts- M.R. Carey

Any books you absolutely hated?
None that I can think of but I get bored easily so I’d love something that grabs my attention right away

What are a few of your favorite TV shows and/or movies?
Sex ​​Education, Russian Doll, true crime, Wheel of Time show, Game of Thrones

Any types of content you’d like your Bibliologist to warn you about?
I’d like a heads up for any sexual violence

Any types of content that are dealbreakers for you? Your Bibliologist will exclude books containing these.
Animal abuse

What is your preferred reading format? (Print, ebook, audiobook, Braille)
print
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Recommendations can be in any format. If you are just giving three book picks, please list the titles and authors. If this is the person you are writing a letter for, each book pick (title & author) should be accompanied by one to two sentences as to why you picked the title in question.
Recommendations must be currently available in hardcover. If you are just giving three book picks, please list the titles and authors. If this is the person you are writing a letter for, each book pick (title & author) should be accompanied by one to two sentences as to why you picked the title in question.
Recommendations must be currently available in hardcover. If you are just giving three book picks, please list the titles and authors. If this is the person you are writing a letter for, each book pick (title & author) should be accompanied by one to two sentences as to why you picked the title in question.
I have included picks for all three customers, and one of those includes accompanying information as to why.(Required)
I acknowledge that orders will be assigned whenever possible based on my indicated genres of expertise, but I will also be expected to do research to recommend books outside my own reading experience.(Required)