First: I wanna clarify this. I know that loads of people read like 100 books a year, or read all the time. I know these people exist. I’m asking about people that are like… average. An average american who just… reads. Doesn’t track everything or sets goals of like 100, or never stops reading… Anyway, I’ve been searching this up, and i find answers like 15-50, even 100. I find this highly unlikely, especially for average US citizens. Half the people i know don’t even pick up 5 books a year, let alone 15! I just don’t believe these stats. I read somewhere that people read 8 a month on average? That can’t be right for an average person. That’s like 2 books a week… I know people do read this much, but still… For an average person? So be real… how many books do people actually read a year?
Seconded. In this calendar year’s bedtime reading to our 7-yr-old, I finished The Order of the Phoenix, and read in complete The Half-Blood Prince, The Deathly Hallows, and Tress & the Emerald Sea.
I wouldn’t really count those as “my” reading on a survey, though. Even including graduate school work, I don’t think I’ll hit 10 books start-to-finish this year, and maybe only 4 that count as “for pleasure”, depending on how December goes.