Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.
This Week’s Theme:
Male Book Bloggers In The Community
(And Where To Find Them)
Initial Thoughts:
“Where are all the male book bloggers?” you ponder.
They don’t exist.
Nah, we’re just a tiny minority (last I heard, we’re 12% strong), so I’mma just vomit as many names I know of despite not actually having interacted with most of them (?) — and this is going to read very stalker-ish — but I assure you, I’m only slightly creepy. Huh?
This isn’t some master list of curated voices from all platforms (re: I didn’t highlight booklr because I don’t really use tumblr).
This list will be updated if/when I discover more voices.
Blogger Tally: 35 (not including Bookstagram/BookTube)
Canada: 3 (yes, I included myself)
USA: 14
South America: 1
Australia: 4
UK: 6
Europe: 2
Southeast Asia: 6
Bloggers
Jesse Nicholas – Books at Dawn (Canada)
Lashaan – Bookidote (Canada)
Andrew – Endlessly Reading (USA)
Bayram – Never Ending Books (USA)
Brian – The Guy’s Side (USA)
Cody – Roecker Reviews (USA)
Drew – The Tattooed Book Geek (USA)
Jon – Bookish Antics (USA)
Liam – Hey Ashers! (USA)
Mikey – Josie & Mikey Read
Nazahet – Read Diverse Books (USA)
Ryan – Ryan’s Bookish Confessions (USA)
Ryy – Dem Books Doee (USA)
Thomas – The Quiet Voice (USA)
Tod – YA Lit Reader (USA)
Xander – Forever Bookish (USA)
Gervan – G. J. Alvi (Trinidad and Tobago)
Brett Michael Orr (Australia)
Brett – Demons Read Too (Australia)
Liam – Liam’s Library (Australia)
Paul – The Galaxial Word (Australia)
Christopher – YAfictionados (England)
Josh – One With the Words (England)
Nathan – A Walk Into the Wild (England)
Rhys – Thirst For Fiction (England)
Thomas – Intro to Blurb (Somewhere UK?)
Michael – Michael Reads (Scotland)
Jonas – Other Things (Belgium)
Nick – The Paper Dragon (Belgium)
Kevin – Bookevin (Malaysia)
JM – Book Freak Revelations (Philippines)
Josiah – The Bookish Fanboy (Philippines)
Justine – Bookwormaniac (Philippines)
Mark – Bongbongbooks (Philippines)
Miguel – The Quirky Reader (Philippines)
Shelumiel – Bookish and Awesome (Philippines) 
Bookstagram
Danny – The Book Order (Canada)
…that’s all I got LOL.
Booktube
You’re probably already familiar with the bigger names so I’m not going to give them a shout. Just going to highlight a few that I watch on occasion:
Jason Purcell – The Heavy Blanks (Canada)
…if you need CanLit, this dude’s an awesome reference point.
Andrew – Drew the Reviewer (USA)
…if you’re familiar with Khanh (“the Grinch”) on Goodreads, then listening to Andrew shit on books is the equivalent. I’m serious.
Jeff – Ermahgerd Berks (Canada)
…this isn’t really his channel (it’s Jamie’s) but whenever he sporadically appears here and there on the tubes. Plus, they’re a wonderful couple.
Afterthoughts:
Holy fuck this post took forever to curate.
…and I’m not even going to begin with Goodreads only users.
Cheers,
Joey
connect: afterthoughtAn // twitter | anotherafterthought // goodreads
thoughts and afterthoughts. 
This is awesome! Thanks for thinking of me 🙂
And wow, have I got some new fellow dudes to check out!
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If I’m being honest, Nick, for a while–and don’t take this the wrong way–I thought you were quite androgynous (it didn’t help that I knew 5 other “Nicks” in the book blogg community who were all female). I apologize for my ignorance.
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Hahaha, this is gold! No offence taken at all, so don’t feel bad. In fact, my full name is also quite the androgynous one and quite often when I pick up the phone or when I am doing calls for work, they reply with ‘miss’ 😛 Hence why I go for a permanent stubble. At least when people see me, they use the correct pronouns for I no longer look like a preteen androgynous child :’)
I don’t help matters along by mentioning the boyfriend every other post or so, as well.
Perhaps I should consider adding a photo or so. Something very manly 😛
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wow Joey! awesome! 🙂
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Now you can venture to find someone among these dudes who’s a harsher critic than yours truly (or not).
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I already followed most of them, without even knowing they were dudes… but I don’t think any of them is a harsher critic 😛
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You’re so correct– it’s so hard to find male book bloggers. I realized this a few months back when I was looking for new blogs to follow. Thanks for the list! I have one addition: Naz –> http://readdiversebooks.com. He’s relatively new, but really great.
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Oh I think I’ve come across Naz’s blog before! I just haven’t interacted with him much so it definitely slipped my mind but thank you, now I just need to add him to the list.
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Omg, Whitney! I just found this post. Thank you for supporting and noticing me :’)
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Of course!
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Woohoo, there’s some more males out there! 🙂
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:D!
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This list is fantastic and while it took a hell of a long time to make I am so grateful. It’s always nice to hear things from a different perspective. Even more, I have a few male students who are working on a blogging project for English and said they felt weird because boys to blog about books. Now I can show them this. Thank you so much!
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That’s awesome that you’re integrating blogging with your class! I must forewarn you that there’s a lot of crude language here that might not be enjoyed by most eyes haha.
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I’m impressed with how many different ways people can use ‘book’ in a title. 🙂 My TTT
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They’re all secretly part of a cult…
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Damn. I guess you’ve solved the big mystery and hunted down the male bloggers for us. Thank you for your services haha. 😛
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Now I just need to forward them your post to remind them that Kell’s coat is mine and all is good (and none shall be murdered). What?
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Well done, Joey.
I thought you were the only one. I’m happy to be wrong.
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My journey isn’t over until I’ve discovered everrryyyyoneeeee.
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Great list – can’t wait to check out a few of these guys!
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Go forth and enjoy all the voices!
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This is really awesome! Totally looking into the Rhys guy because ADSOM. This was a great idea!
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Oh my goodness, that must be why I thought he was immediately so cool.
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This is so cool!
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Maybe you can find your blogger version of Garrett among those listed–HUH!?
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LOL. I don’t think my husband would appreciate that!
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Whooo go Joey! This is an amazing masterpost-ish reference! Glad to see this and this is just ♡ I’ll blog hop soon enough. These guys sound awesome! (Even though I already know a few welp) Amazing post you got here!
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It’s actually really good that you know some of them! It means you’re connected with the community too because it took me from when I started blogging until now to even find ~40-50 male blogging voices.
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Yoo Joey, big thank you for the shout out. I honestly didn’t expect this many fellow male bloggers. Thought they were all hidden on Goodreads (good thing you didn’t start that list; doubt it would have an end).
Keep on vomiting bruh. Always a pleasure to read your reviews.
– Lashaan
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You’ll always get special privilege, Lashaan, cause our blood is bound by gravy and cheese curds. #TeamCanada
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Yay for male bloggers! This is awesome, thanks for sharing Joey. 😜
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It makes me sad that I know more from Oz than in my own country. WHAT IS LIFE?
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This was your perfect chance to link your “male bloggers” WP list and you didn’t?? But awesome post anyway, Joey! LOL. Adding the male Goodreads users would take forever. Plus, I don’t know how you would include an image of them… Their profile pictures? Now that would be sort of awkward, haha. Glad you stopped yourself. XD
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I had it in initially but then thought people wouldn’t read the entirety if they could just go to the list. Plus, it doesn’t really “list” them out as opposed to just throwing up a feed I think (at least for WP readers specifically). I HAVE REASONS FOR WHAT I DO–JUST NOT THAT ONE TIME FOR NOT TAGGING YOU DESPITE TAGGING YOU. SHEEESSSSH.
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Lol. Oh, Joey. I guess it makes sense I mean after all that work with screenshoting all the banners and uploading them to your media, etc. XD (That’s why I totally decided not to do that and made mine text heavy instead-even though I know no one will read any of them unless it’s theirs. Oh well. 😅)
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YOU’RE A WIZARD–HOW DID YOU KNOW I ONLY READ YOUR INTRO BLURB AND THEN MINE?!
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Shrugs. 💁🏻
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What male book bloggers actually exist? I’m kidding, of course. 12% is actually a lot more than I would have thought. I haven’t heard of most of these bloggers, so I will have to check them out (no, not like that).
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It could be more/less than 12% — that’s just the result that was given on a 2015 book blogger poll (so the sample size could be really small too which may positively skew the value). Glad to hear I could steer you toward some other testosterone-y voices from the community!
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You da best, Joey. So honoured to be included and be among such stars! Thank you for thinking of me 😉
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Felt the need to say HI to a fellow Malaysian blogger 😁 I’ve actually not met many (none in fact), granted I had just started book blogging quite recently (perhaps not that recently). Still this is pretty amazing to me 😀
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Hello and welcome! How are you finding book blogging?
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The use of my regional tagging (re Malaysia) is a success — you two have now found each other and I am stoked to see where this blogging friendship will gooooooo.
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Thanks a lot Joey 👍 the regional tagging did help! It’s always nice to see our own country being represented 😉 esp when I feel it’s sorta a minority in book blogging… (perhaps I’ve just not met enough malaysian book bloggers…there might be tons of them out there) thanks for the effort!
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Pretty sure you’re one the biggest and brightest stars on the list, Kev…
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Trying very hard to stifle a smug grin.
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Thanks for including me, Joey! I’m disappointed that there is only one Bookstagram here, haha just kidding. What’s your Instagram? I should follow you.
Awesome post, by the way. You never disappoint (except for the Bookstagram part, I should see you taking Bookstagram seriously)
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It’s mainly cause I don’t actually use bookstagram (yet?) so the only person I knew to include was someone I know of in real life haha.
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Yeah, Danny’s amazing. I would actually want to see you use Bookstagram. I command you to do it! Lol
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Lol. Love that you put this together, Joey! Proves that as female dominated (YA) book blogging is, more than a handful of guys do blog about books too.
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Still a terrible minority, but you know, baby steps.
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Amazing list – and quite a long one too, I can only imagine just how difficult it was to curate! I (surprisingly) already follow some of these people but will be on the lookout for others I haven’t. Thanks for making it easy for us to find male bloggers! 🙂
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I think it’s a good thing I was able to highlight voices you already follow as, to me, it means they’re verifiable and have a legitimate stake as a voice in the community (re considering many of these bloggers are quite new too ~1 year)!
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I rarely see male book bloggers, so this is gold! Thanks for the effort (and stalking :p).
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Follow away!
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I was literally wondering this the other day when I realised that most of the blogsI follow are run by females!! So thank you for this insight! 😀
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I hope you find some awesome new voices to follow and enjoy then!
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You’re right, male book bloggers are rare. Booktube isn’t that much better too, I had to dig my brain to find some to include in my TTT list. Gonna check some of these out when I get the chance.
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I feel like there’s a much greater presence of male booktubers than male book bloggers but maybe my perception is heavily influenced by visibility of YT versus blogs.
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You’re right. Booktube does have a higher ratio of male booktubers, but I still think the number of female booktubers dwarf male booktubers. Then again, it might just be the channels I’ve come in contact with. I don’t think we’ll know for sure unless YouTube releases some official numbers.
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Wow. This is such a great list, and I’m sure you took SO long to do this, ahah. I need to check out all of those bloggers asap, I feel like I only talk to girls on here, haha! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
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I always feel like with this [female dominated] community, if I post something “guy centric” (e.g. this post featuring males), I’ll get scolded or something because it omits the inclusion of females — so I’m glad no one who read this thought this way (but then again I have the most pessimistic thoughts LOL).
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Ahah, oh no reason to be pessimistic about this, you always manage to make great posts, and this one doesn’t fail. The community is indeed very female dominated, and it makes me happy to see there are lots of guys out there doing this as well, it’s kind of refreshing, actually, ahah 🙂
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Why don’t I know any male book bloggers?! Honestly I expected the male percentage to be less than 12%. But the amount of people I need to get following here is ridiculous. Thanks for sharing this list, the effort is appreciated!
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I KNOW MORE BLOGGER DUDES IN OZ THAN I KNOW IN MY OWN MOTHERLAND. Liam, how? HOW?!
It’s cause you’re on fire so much–CAN’T SEE PAST THE SMOKE SCREEEEEEN.
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Wow. We’re obviously a reading bunch. I feel like all the male bloggers I know come from the Philippines or around that area. I need to look harder…
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Wooooaaaah. Thank you for including me in this list bro. Thank you for sharing the list too. The “following” frenzy starts now. 🙂
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I had to do a double take on your blog because I thought you were someone else from the same general area (re I thought you basically combusted and vanished from the book blogging community) — so I’m glad you’re alive!
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I am alive! Hahah. Trying my best to post regularly. Twice or thrice a week is my goal. 🙂
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Woah, what a great list, looks like I’ve got a lot of following to do! Thanks so much for including me on it! 🙂
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Don’t thank me, thank yourself for being part of the community!
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Only slightly creepy? 😉 But great list of male book bloggers.
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Admitting full on creepy would probably have my blog flagged or something, so, yes, definitely slightly.
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Thanks for the recommendations! I need to follow more male bloggers!
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Have fun discovering new voices!
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Wonder if I might’ve made a mistake putting my blog on Blogger instead of WordPress…seems like that’s a community where it’s easier to make friends. 🙂
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Couldn’t tell you. WP might be easier to connect to but I do feel like there’s more creative freedom on Blogger. Plus, in-house connections (via WPs RSS-like feed isn’t really necessary if you can garner a wide enough audience elsewhere e.g. Twitter). But hey if you ever decide to switch over, let me know!
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Woah, I had no idea there were that many male bloggers! I’m so glad that you listed quite a few, because I’ve only heard of a handful of them. Thanks for the awesome list Joey!
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At least you know Brett in person! Those friendship feels are real (and cute).
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Omg so many! I have to be honest and say I only knew you and Bookevin off this list but now I really really must go through and check out these blogs!
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Maybe I’m having a memory lapse but I feel like I’ve seen you comment on other blogs excluding Kevin and mine. Odd.
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I looked back through the list after making this comment and was like oh yeah, how’d I forget him and him and him ect hahaha! So yeah, you’re totally right!
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Nice list! I never really see any male book bloggers, at least not a lot of them, so this list is really useful!
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I totally missed this Top Ten Tuesday!
I have been looking high and low, far and wide for other male book bloggers, but have found so very few. ahaha.
Thanks for this list, man!
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Can you add me on this list?! Holy Fudge. I am one of those male bloggers!
theroyalpolarbearreads.wordpress.com
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