The Atlantic: Nearly a quarter of American adults have not read a single book in the past year.
The Atlantic: Nearly a quarter of American adults have not read a single book in the past year.
Without question, the American bookworm is a rarer species than two or three decades ago, when we didn’t enjoy today’s abundance of highly distracting gadgets. In 1978, Gallup found that 42 percent of adults had read 11 books or more in the past year (13 percent said they’d read more than 50!). Today, Pew finds that just 28 percent hit the 11 mark.
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