Ironic Book Pictures

By Paul London · Last updated June 2026

Ah, books. Without them we'd have nothing for righteous loonpots to find inciteful enough to burn and ban. But enough of that, here are some lovely ironic pictures of book related shenanigans. For more literary irony examples in text form, we have a whole category of those too.

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A man reading a book in an empty meeting room, ironically titled about improving social skills — Small text you can't see above the book title: "A Venereal Tone is a good anagram of..."

A person on a train reading a book about overcoming fear of public transport — Advert brought to you by the author

A person reading a self-help book about focus while driving a car on the motorway — "How to devolve and have the FOCUS of a small mammal"

Two chocolate Labrador dogs sitting next to a shredded copy of Dog Training for Dummies — *"The book told me to do it"*. Dog training for dummies is surely for the owner, so there's no dog shaming here.

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