Reading Is Becoming Rare. If You Read More Than Two Books Last Year, You’re Already Ahead

Essence Magazine:

By Andrea Bossi ·Updated January 6, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

If any reading goals are at the top of your New Year’s resolutions list, chances are you’re already steps ahead of most folks. 

Americans aren’t reading much these days, and that’s relatively unchanged from recent years past, in which a small segment of the population is doing most of the reading. 

In 2025, 40 percent of U.S. adults didn’t read

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