bibliophagist

noun

bib·​li·​oph·​a·​gist ¦bi-blē-¦ä-fə-jist 

plural bibliophagists

: an avid or voracious reader

Like many bibliophagists, Dirda sometimes has an excessively romantic view of the power of the page.

—Kirkus Reviews, 1 Mar. 2006

Once you had got through Pooh and Dr. Dolittle, Alice and the Water Babies, you were a bibliophagist on the loose.

—Nadine Gordimer, Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008, 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined above

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