Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - The Rapid City Public Library’s Winter Reading Challenge is now underway. Readers of all ages can ...

Adults can sign up now to participate in the Syracuse Public Library’s adult winter reading challenge, which runs from Sunday ...

-- Half (49 percent) read between 6--15 books per year, and Fable readers finished an average of 20. -- 55 percent increase year-over-year (YOY) in users who have already met their 2025 reading goal ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...

A beloved PBS kids' classic will make a comeback this fall after nearly 20 years, as "Reading Rainbow" returns to your screens with a new host. The popular children's series, once PBS's most-watched ...

"Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville, John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll may not seem to have much in common, but they can all be found on the reading ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — It’s a bookworm’s idea of heaven: 18 days of non-stop reading. In a restaurant in Nigeria’s Lagos, three men and two women have been reading books for over 431 hours in an ...

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...