5 Fascinating Stats About Modern Reading Habits, with Laura McGrath

Book Riot - The Podcast

03/26/25

•

68m

About

Comments

Featured In

Author, literary historian, and data scientist Laura McGrath joins Jeff and Rebecca to share some of the most interesting, surprising, and curious stats about modern reading habits.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter.

Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations, who have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Discussed in this Episode:

Laura's Substack textCrunch

Philippa Chong, Inside the Critics Circle

Christine Larson, Love in the Time of Self-Publishing

Janice Radway, A Feeling for Books

Janice Radway, Reading the Romance

Chong and Kim, "Writing By Women or For Women? Either Way, You're Less Likely to be Reviewed."

Inman Berens and Noorda, Immersive Media 2020

Inman Berens and Noorda, "Gen Z and Millennials: How they Use Public Libraries and Identify through Media Use."

Porter, Eimannsberger, English, et. al. "Genre Juggernaut: Measuring 'Romance'"

Lucy, Li, et al. "Racial and Ethnic Representation in Literature Taught in US High Schools"

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Previous Episode

Which Classics Should You Read to Be "Well-Read"? [Teaser]

March 25, 2025

•

In this bonus preview of the most recent Patreon-only episode of The Book Riot Podcast, Jeff and Rebecca tackle an impossible question.

To listen to the full episode and get access to all previous Patreon-only episodes, consider joining The Book Riot Podcast Patreon.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Next Episode

The Reading Life of Stephen Graham Jones

March 31, 2025

•

54m

Jeff is out this week reading on a beach, so we are sharing this rerun from the First Edition podcast in which Jeff talks to Stephen Graham Jones about his reading life. Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of thirty-five or so novels and collections, and there are some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are Earthdivers and I Was a Teenage Slasher.

His new book, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, is out now.

Subscribe to First Edition via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.

For episode extras, subscribe to the First Edition Substack.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices