Billionaires swear by books—but two in five Americans didn’t read a single one last year. Experts warn its decline among ...

As our communities wrestle with loneliness, pleasure reading and the libraries that sustain it offers an affordable path to improve lives.

New year, new literary adventures. Authors Isaac Fitzgerald and Adriana Trigiani stopped by TODAY on the last day of 2025 to ...

Children and an adult read books at the Altadena Main Library in Altadena, Calif., in March 2025. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images After decades of stagnating ...

Levels of stress, depression, and anxiety are especially high in today’s hectic world. It can be hard to find time for self-care and especially hard to find time for leisure activities like reading.

Love to curl up on the couch with a good book? You aren’t alone. According to a Gallup poll published in 2022, in 2021 Americans read roughly 12 books a year, amounting to around one a month. That ...

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 ...

Know your attention span. How many minutes can you read before your mind wanders? The average is 20-30 minutes. Know how many pages you can read in an attention span. For instance, 10 pages in a ...

J.K. Rowling's bestselling "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is one of the best books for teens. This list of teen book rankings is based on honors the books have received, reader ratings on ...

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...