Most of us read all day – texts, emails, menus, utility bills, social media captions and news stories. But fewer people are reading for fun.
According to a 2022 report from the National Endowment for the Arts, 48.5% of US adults said they had read at least one book that year, down from 52.7% five years earlier, and 54.6% 10 years earlier. In the UK, a 2024 report found that half of UK adults do not regularly read for pleasure.
