65% of Americans have not read a book in the ​past year.
80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth-grade level.
44% of American adults do not read a book in a year.
42% of college graduates never read another book after college.
70% of Americans have not been in a bookstore in the past five years.
70% of people who visit a bookstore pick up a book but do not buy it.
6 out of 10 households do not buy a single book in a year.
Statistics courtesy of Above and Beyond Therapy
"The new data on book reading reinforce that the popularity of reading is waning, with Americans reading an average of three fewer books last year than they did five years ago and had typically read for the past three decades."
- Gallup, 2022
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