積ん読

Japanese

Kanji in this term
積	読

Etymology

積む (tsumu, to pile up) + 読 (doku, to read), punning on “積んでおく” (tsundeoku, to leave piled up)

Noun

積ん読 (hiragana つんどく, romaji tsundoku)

1. (informal) the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with such other unread books