The percentage of respondents who said they had not read at all in the past year has stayed steady at 17%, which is about the same as it’s been since 2002, so the decline was caused by a drop in the amount of people who read more than 10 books: only 27% read more than 10, which is the lowest it’s been recorded. While all categories showed a decline in average numbers of books read, the biggest difference was in college grads, who went from 21.1 books read per year on average 2002-2016 to 14.6 in 2021. Only 6% of respondents read 51 books or more in 2021. Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.
