How to Read a Book a Month: A Realistic System for Busy People | Chapterly Blog
How to Read a Book a Month: A Realistic System for Busy People Quick Answer: The average nonfiction book is 250 pages. Reading at a typical adult pace of 30 pages per hour, finishing one book a month requires about 8.3 hours of reading, or roughly 17 minutes per day. That is less time than the average American spends on social media before breakfast. The challenge is not finding the time. It is building the trigger-routine-reward loop that makes those 17 minutes happen consistently. Most reading advice on the internet targets ambitious readers. You will find guides on how to read 52 books a year or 100 books a year that assume you already have a reading habit and just need to accelerate it. But according to Gallup polling data, the average American reads about four books per year. For the majority of adults who want to read more, the right starting goal is not a book a week. It is a book a month. Twelve books a year will change your thinking more than you expect. That is twelve sets of ideas you did not have before, twelve authors whose perspective you have absorbed, twelve subjects you understand better...