When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Jenna Bush Hager is an avid bookworm, and founded her beloved book club, Read with Jenna, in 2019. See all of the 'Today with Jenna and Sheinelle' show co-host's 2026 selections here.

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 ...

E-books fit best for me when I read on commutes or trips, when I need adjustable fonts, or when I know I’ll want to search ...

A few weeks ago, we asked NPR staffers to share their all-time favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction — as long as it was great to read by a pool or on a plane, it was fair game. Scroll ...

Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge to see how many books you can read in a year. Just don’t talk to us the last two weeks of December – some of ...

ThriftBooks is launching its 500 Billion Page Challenge to help America fall back in love with reading ...

After a multiyear reading slump, I ended 2025 having read 63 books, the highest number I’ve read in recent years.

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.