How to Read 100 Books a Year: A Practical System | Chapterly Blog
How to Read 100 Books a Year: A Practical System One hundred books a year. That is roughly two books per week, every week, for an entire year. It sounds like an absurd challenge reserved for professional book reviewers and retirees with no other hobbies. But thousands of ordinary people with full-time jobs and busy lives do it every year. The secret is not speed reading. It is not superhuman willpower. It is math, strategy, and a few systems that dramatically increase your reading throughput without requiring you to quit your job. The Math: It Is More Achievable Than You Think Let us break down what reading 100 books actually requires. The average nonfiction book is roughly 60,000 to 80,000 words. The average adult reads at approximately 250 words per minute. At 250 words per minute, a 70,000-word book takes about 280 minutes to read, or roughly 4.5 hours. One hundred books at 4.5 hours each equals 450 hours of reading per year. Divided by 365 days, that is about 74 minutes of reading per day. An hour and 14 minutes. That is less time than the average American spends on social media daily. And that calculation assumes every book...