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Goodreads Wrapped: A Year in Reading, Reimagined

A shareable “year in reading” built from your Goodreads data.

2026-01-17 · Annie Chen
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Goodreads Wrapped: A Year in Reading, Reimagined

I stumbled on a striking statistic while reading The Atlantic the other day. In 2023, fourteen percent of students reported reading for fun almost every day. This percentage was 3 percentage points lower than 2020, and 13 percentage points lower than 2012. - The Nation’s Report Card The editor Adam Kirsch suggests that campaigns that frame reading as democratic duty are ill-fated to reverse the decline. Instead, if reading is to survive, it must be reintroduced as something pleasurable, perhaps even a bit transgressive. ...

2026-01-17 · Annie Chen