I read in a different sub that 2,000 people would be a representative sample size for the U.S. population (and YouTube’d the methodology). I bet if you could select 2,000 random adult American Citizens, from 18-80 (~natural lifespan), across socioeconomic and demographic groups, the mean “n books read for pleasure, start to finish in a rolling 12-month period” would round down to zero (so, 0.4444 or something similar). That would still imply ~889 books read in totality across that population.

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.

Great, great comment.

You need to clarify what “read” means, specifically if it necessitates “start-to-finish”.

I feel like Children of Time has a chance to fulfill this criteria.