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* Criminy from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' is a good male example, from inside his fort of books. His large eyes, intellect, and a sweet demeanour are what [[HornyDevil Fuchsia]] falls in love with.

* Laurie Strode in ''Film/Halloween1978''. She lacks the glasses, but is otherwise presented as a very bookish, studious, modestly-dressed teenage girl and a contrast to her more free-spirited best friends Lynda and Annie, one who's still a virgin not out of moral purity but because her intelligence scares boys away. It's largely toned down in the sequels, though.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow spends much of her time in the library with Giles or on a computer. When Willow first appears, Cordelia mocks her clothes, joking about having seen the softer side of Sears. She tends to start saying something, then trails off as she realizes thinks that whatever she is saying is weird.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'': Whyatt/Super Why. He is the leader of the Super Readers and the smartest out of them. He is a young boy who loves books so much and he is just so cute! Although he's not really that socially awkward or vulnerable, he is incredibly endearing and sweet. He is also quite an introvert, though somewhat subtly. Not helping the fact that his InnocentBlueEyes make him even cuter.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'': Whyatt/Super Why. He is the leader of the Super Readers and the smartest out of them. He is a young boy who loves books so much and he is just so cute! Although he's not really that socially awkward or vulnerable, he is incredibly endearing and sweet. Not helping the fact that his InnocentBlueEyes make him even cuter.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'': Whyatt/Super Why. He is the leader of the Super Readers and he is the smartest out of them. He loves books so much and he is just so cute! Not helping the fact that his InnocentBlueEyes make him even cuter.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': Phoebe Heyerdahl represents many stereotypical "smart girl" tropes (AsianAndNerdy, diminutive size, soft-spoken and [[ShrinkingViolet painfully shy]] with [[{{Meganekko}} oval eyeglasses]]) and is almost always found reading in the library. Arguably the most intelligent character on the show and was once offered the chance to skip two grade levels. (She gave it a try, but turned it down because she had trouble making new friends.)

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'': Whyatt/Super Why. He is the leader of the Super Readers and he is also the smartest out of them. He loves books so much and he is just so cute! Not helping the fact that his InnocentBlueEyes make him even cuter.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'': Whyatt/Super Why. He is the leader of the Super Readers and he is also the smartest out of them. He loves books and reading so much and he is just so cute! Not helping the fact that his InnocentBlueEyes make him even cuter.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'': Whyatt/Super Why. He is the smartest out of the Super Readers. He loves books so much and he is just so cute! Not helping the fact that his InnocentBlueEyes make him even cuter.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'': Whyatt. He is the smartest out of the Super Readers. He loves books so much and he is just so cute. Not helping the fact that his InnocentBlueEyes make him even cuter.

** Sophia is a big fan of romance novels ([[EncyclopaedicKnowledge among others]]), and bonds with Catarina over their shared interest in them. It's probably a carryover from her past life as the {{otome game}}r Atsuko, although in-universe it is explained by the fact that she has been a {{hikkikomori}} and spent a lot of time reading romance literature for {{escapism}}.
** In Sophia's previous life as Atsuko, she was also initially like this: shy, [[NoSocialSkills socially awkward]], and treats reading as the only thing she enjoyed.

A cute and brainy bibliophile, this trope embodies the [[{{Moe}} cute, shy, and vulnerable]] archetype as applied to a nerdy girl. She wanders around with her head in a book and is ready to spout out facts at the drop of a hat. There's a tendency for her to be [[ShrinkingViolet shy, young, quiet, and socially awkward]]. Occasionally this is highlighted by having her [[{{Meganekko}} wear glasses]], or [[PeekABangs have her bangs in her face to hide her eyes]]. She'll almost always be more conservatively dressed than most of the cast.

May overlap with BadassBookworm, LovableNerd, IntelligenceEqualsIsolation, and EndearinglyDorky. Contrast HotLibrarian for an older, more authoritative version. Subtrope of {{Bookworm}}.

* ''Manga/SensualPhrase'': Aine Yukimura is a sweet-faced high school senior with a really cute smile. She's also a talented songwriter and works as such for her BastardBoyfriend's band Aucifer.

* iino from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is never actually shown with a book (since her obsession with the rules means that she'd never have something that could distract her while performing her student council or public moral committee duties), but the fact that her bedroom is nothing but full bookshelves, a table, and [[AnOddPlaceToSleep a giant teddy bear]] implies that she spends a lot of her free time reading. Later chapters also establish that she's a fan of things like ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', self-insert web novels, and poetry, the last of which being how she eventually forms a SempaiKohai relationship with Shirogane.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': Phoebe Heyerdahl represents many stereotypical "smart girl" tropes (AsianAndNerdy, diminutive size, soft-spoken and [[ShrinkingViolet painfully shy]] with [[{{Meganekko}} oval eyeglasses]] and is almost always found reading in the library. Arguably the most intelligent character on the show and was once offered the chance to skip two grade levels. (She gave it a try, but turned it down because she had trouble making new friends.)

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Nodoka Miyazaki is extremely bookish, [[PeekABangs wears her hair over her face]] and works at the school Library of Babel. ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' is in her top 10 books to have if she is ever stranded on a DesertedIsland.

A cute and brainy bibliophile, this trope embodies the [[{{Moe}} cute, shy, and vulnerable]] archetype as applied to a nerdy girl. She wanders around with her head in a book, and is ready to spout out facts at the drop of a hat. There's a tendency for her to be [[ShrinkingViolet shy, young, quiet and socially awkward]]. Occasionally this is highlighted by having her [[{{Meganekko}} wear glasses]], or [[PeekABangs have her bangs in her face to hide her eyes]]. She'll almost always be more conservatively dressed than most of the cast.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Eighth squad lieutenant Nanao Ise wears glasses in her sleep, carries a book everywhere, scolds her BrilliantButLazy captain for slacking off and in return, receives some "[[ChivalrousPervert compliments]]" from him. [[spoiler:Her ex-liutenant and now member of the Visored, Risa Yadomaru, was a HotLibrarian when in their squad and used to read to young Nanao regularly. She's still a {{Meganekko}}, but is more often seen reading porn... er, {{josei}} manga now.]]

* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'': Sheska/Sciezka. Memorized the whole library, wears glasses and cute as a button.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Yuki Nagato seems built to be a perfect example of this as the only member of the now defunct [[ClubStub Literature Club]] and her head constantly in a book. Key words being "seems built" as [[EmotionlessGirl her personality doesn't match]] her appearance and behavior. [[spoiler:Except in ''Disappearance'']]. Glasses appear optional.

* ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'': The library worker, Akane. Fits the trope in normal form, loses the glasses and lets down her hair in alternate form (also goes a little gun crazy).
* ''Manga/KokoroLibrary'': Iina, Aruto and Kokoro: Why be satisfied with one librarian? These sisters make this trope triple. Just too bad that there usually goes days between the customers of the titular library...

* ''Manga/SensualPhrase'': Aine Yukimura is a sweet-faced highschool senior with a really cute smile. She's also a talented songwriter and works as such for her BastardBoyfriend's band Aucifer.

* Enriqueta, from the Argentine comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Macanudo}}'', is a young girl (around 6 or 7-years old) who loves reading. When she's with a book, nothing can drive her focus off the pages. Her pet cat Fellini always try to interrupt her to playing with him .

* Chloe Cerise in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' spends a week and a half in the Library of Flying Book Cars, and reads different types of books and even writes her (macabre) stories. All while being a sweet ten-year-old girl who loves and invokes ''Alice in Wonderland''.

* ''Literature/AirAwakens'': Vhalla, at least at the beginning. Shy, innocent, basically brought up in a library (as a librarian's apprentice) and very well-read (if she slacks on her duties, it's only to hide in a corner and read).

* Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'': Matilda is a quiet, polite litte girl who loves books more than anything else, much to the horror of her horrible parents. To the extent that [[ChildProdigy she taught herself to read in toddlerhood and made significant progress in the Western Canon by age five or six.]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow spends much of her time in the library with Giles or on a computer. When Willow first appears, Cordelia mocks her clothes, joking about having seen the softer side of Sears. She tends to start saying something, then trail off as she realizes thinks that whatever she is saying is weird.
* Annie Edison on ''Series/{{Community}}'', especially in the first season. She's a very pretty girl obsessed with school and doing well. She's overachieving, but she's very cute with all her books, copybooks and notes. Over time her character becomes less focused on school and doing well, but still remains extremely cute.

** April Nardini, who appears in later seasons as Luke's teenage daughter. She is a science-oriented geek who loves books, reading and school.
* Amelia from ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime''. She proudly says that she learned from books everything she knows, which includes her vast knowledge of History and Literature up to her origin year of 1880. On an episode, Pacino tells her that she's "like the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_universal_ilustrada_europeo-americana Enciclopedia Espasa]]'', but in pretty."

* ''VideoGame/LovePlus'': Played with Rinko Kobayakawa, one of the three possible LoveInterests for the protagonist. She is considered cute, likes reading books and is part of the school's library comiteé, but is more voluntarily reclusive than actually shy. [[DefrostingIceQueen She does open up later on, though]].

** Penny is a shy red-headed girl who can be found reading alone in the town's library, when she's not out teaching the town's two children. Her room in her mother's trailer is littered with half-read books.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'': Kotomi Ichinose is very socially awkward, shy and ridiculously intelligent.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has a ton of books scattered around his giant house, and is considered in-universe and out a PrettyBoy.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': Phoebe Heyerdahl represents many stereotypical "smart girl" tropes (AsianAndNerdy, diminutive size, soft spoken and [[ShrinkingViolet painfully shy]] with [[{{Meganekko}} oval eyeglasses]] and is almost always found reading in the library. Arguably the most intelligent character on the show and was once offered the chance to skip two grade levels. (She gave it a try, but turned it down because she had trouble making new friends.)

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Velma, most notably on ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo''. As a teen she's classified as "{{Hollywood Homely}}" (she's not gorgeous but she's not ugly, either) and quite studious. In ''Pup'', Velma is sweet and quiet-spoken as well as smart. This is lampshaded in a flashback scene of a ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' episode where a birthday clown destroys her prized gift of encyclopedias and she runs off crying.

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* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Yuki Nagato seems built to be a perfect example of this as the only member of the now defunct [[ClubStub Literature Club]] and her head constantly in a book. Key words being 'seems built' as [[EmotionlessGirl her personality doesn't match]] her appearance and behavior. [[spoiler:Except in ''Disappearance'']]. Glasses appear optional.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Nodoka Miyazaki is extremely bookish, [[PeekABangs wears her hair over her face]] and works at the school Library Of Babel. ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' is in her top 10 books to have if she is ever stranded on a DesertedIsland.

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* Enriqueta, from the Argentine comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Macanudo}}'', is a young girl (around 6 or 7-years old) who loves reading. When she's with a book, nothing can drive her focus off the pages. Her pet cat Fellini always try to interrupt her to playing with him .

* Arcanus from the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Whispers}}'': Cute in the eyes of his (female) peers and bookworm by virtue of it being ''his special talent''.
* [[ShrinkingViolet Vale Whitaker]], the heroine of the ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]]'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', not only loves books (and can be quite dorkily cute), but she even wants to [[MostWritersAreWriters write stories of her own]] someday.
* Sofia of ''[[Fanfic/TheSurprisingAdventuresOfAGlaceonInUnova The Glaceon and the Shadow]]'' is very fond of science and loves to show off her knowledge, yet is somewhat shy and awkward about it, and tends to suddenly interrupt herself and worry the person she's talking to is bored by her.

* Ellie in ''Film/TheHalfOfIt'' certainly qualifies. She's tiny, introverted, and wears huge glasses. But given that she runs a profitable cheating scheme in which she writes essays for her classmates, she's more savvy than she looks.

*** Sora is a darker example, her shyness being crippling [[spoiler:and partially caused by [=PTSD=] from the war]]. It's only in hindsight that the protagonist realizes the scroll Sora was always reading was about [[spoiler:deadly plants]].

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* Lu Xiao from ''Manhua/InfinityGame'', who is the library assistant and has apparently read every book in the library.
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* Sumia from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is a very cute and dorky Pegasus Knight who loves to read novels. Somewhat subverted in that her reading is seen as [[{{Escapism}} her way to escape from both the harsh reality around her and her friends]] ''and'' [[HeroicSelfDeprecation her SERIOUS self-esteem problems]], and both of the Avatars will be worried for her sake.
** If you customize your Avatar of either gender to look really cute, they will count as well ''and'' double as BadassBookworm.
* Both Ophelia and Midori from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. Ophelia is a MsFanservice whose personal skill grants her a slight critical hit boost when she's carrying three or more tomes (it's even ''called'' "Bibliophile"), and she's introduced looking through a trading town for rare tomes. Meanwhile, Midori is a very adorable child who's described as being a model student.
* Maria/Mary in various ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' games is a cute, shy, {{Meganekko}}, but still she is a librarian.

* Penny of ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' is a shy red-headed girl who can be found reading alone in the town's library, when she's not out teaching the town's two children. Her room in her mother's trailer is littered with half-read books.

* ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial 1'': Mio Kisaragi, a cute and [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] {{Meganekko}} who ''loves'' reading books (to the point of reading four of them per day), thus she spends a lot of her time at libraries, and she often helps at Kirameki High's one. It's also her who finds the Soccer Manual that'll help the protagonist improve his striker skills, during the storyline of the side game ''Nijiiro no Seishun''.

* Dizzy from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' loves to learn and there is a ton of official artwork of her reading or in a library. Makes sense given that [[spoiler:her biological parents were both scientists.]]
* ''VideoGame/LovePlus'': Played with Rinko Kobayakawa, one of the three possible LoveInterests for the protagonist. She is considered cute, likes reading books and is part of the school's library comiteé, but is more voluntarily reclusive than actually shy. [[DefrostingIceQueen She does open up later on, though]].

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* Criminy from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' is a good male example, from inside his fort of books. His large eyes, intellect, and a sweet demeanour are what [[HornyDevil Fuchsia]] falls in love with.
* Suko, the demonic princess from ''Webcomic/HeartCore'', has a very obvious fixation for reading to the point where it has become an obsession. Some of her powers are even based around books!

-->'''Liz''': Just ''stay away'' from the book store.\\
'''Ashley''': Why would I need to stay away from the book store books are great they're full of paper and have words in them. (''Liz gives her a silent DeathGlare. Over the phone.'') Okay yes'm I'll avoid the book store.

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* Spencer Jacobs in ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil'', the Keeper of Jedi Lore, yet ''sooo'' cute.

* ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': Jeanette.
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': Honker Muddlefoot.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Jinora, one of Aang's three grandchildren, combines this with LittleMissSnarker. She makes reference to reading about her Gran-Gran's [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender adventures]], and reads at the dinner table.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Twilight Sparkle - she even lives in a library. Not so much shy as she is insecure about how much more powerful she is than everyone else. Her knowledge of facts even made her the default character to provide exposition as needed. And when she [[spoiler:became a princess]], her first reaction was to ask Princess Celestia if there was a book about it.
** Her old schoolmate Moondancer might be even more so. Starlight Glimmer's friend Sunburst provides a RareMaleExample.

-->'''Gallus:''' Two whole weeks without classes, how will Ocellus survive?

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Library Kid subverts this. She appears to be cute and shy, and is always in the library... but when outside, she's an insane GenkiGirl.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Velma, most notably on ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo.'' As a teen she's classified as "{{Hollywood Homely}}" (she's not gorgeous but she's not ugly, either) and quite studious. In ''Pup,'' Velma is sweet and quiet-spoken as well as smart. This is lampshaded in a flashback scene of a ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' episode where a birthday clown destroys her prized gift of encyclopedias and she runs off crying.

* In ''Literature/WingsOfFire'', Moonwatcher is the dragon equivalent of this trope. In volume 10, Qibli finds her in the library [[spoiler:of the Lost City of Night]] and just stays there gazing at her for a while, because she's so cute and he's so relieved she's okay.
** Sora is a darker example, her shyness being crippling [[spoiler:and partially caused by [=PTSD=] from the war]]. It's only in hindsight that the protagonist realizes the scroll Sora was always reading was about [[spoiler:deadly plants]].