A bookworm or bibliophile is an avid reader and lover of books. Bookworm may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Bookworm (comics), a comic strip in the Whoopee! and Whizzer and Chips comic books The Bookworm (painting), a 1850 painting by German painter Carl Spitzweg "The Bookworm" (short story), a short story by Pu Songling Bookworm (Tiny Toon Adventures), a character on the cartoon Tiny Toon Adventures Bookworm (video game), a 2003 word-forming puzzle video game by PopCap Games Bookworm Adventures, a 2006 follow-up game Bookworm, an American radio show on literature hosted by Michael Silverblatt The Bookworm (1994–2000), a BBC television programme on literature hosted by Griff Rhys Jones The Bookworm, a villain in the 1960s Batman TV show The Bookworm, a 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short Bookworm, a screenplay by David Mamet that became the 1997 movie The Edge "Bookworm, Run!", a 1996 science fiction short story by Vernor Vinge Other uses Bookworm (insect), a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books The Bookworm (bookstore), an independent bookstore in Beijing, China Bookworm, the codename of version 12 of the Debian Linux operating system