It's the Brian Lairn Show here on WNYC.

I'm Tiffany Hansen in for Brian.

And now we are going to talk about book clubs.

Listeners, are you in a book club?

What are you reading right now? We'd love to hear it. 212-433-9-6-92-212-4-33, W-NYC. Call us with what your

book club is reading. Text us at that number as well. 212-433-9692. Why are we asking this question? Well, first of all, because Jordan Lough

is sitting in the studio with me here. Jordan is a producer for WNYC's All of It and the All-O-O-O-O-M-E

book club, get lit. Jordan, we're asking this question as well because of an article in the Atlantic and another in the New York

Times that have lamented that college students and to a certain extent younger people in general

are having a hard time reading an entire book. There's Jordan's comment on that. In addition to into that, a fact may be that many Americans in general are actually reading very little right now.

Q Jordan sighing again.

U-Gov poll last year found that just 54% of Americans read at least one, read at least one book in

2023.

Wow.

Wait, let me say that again.

54% of Americans, so over half, read at least one book.

Okay, so they read at least one book.

At least one.

So we're going to put a positive

spin there. 82% of Americans read 10 or fewer books. Well, still, that's like a book a month.

That's still reading. That's not bad. All right. Book clubs do seem to be growing in popularity.

Book event listings grew 24% last year. If you listen to WNYC, you do know that all of it has its own book club called Get Lit, as I mentioned. Now first, Jordan, there is a Get Lit event tonight. So let's start there. And then we'll, you know, spool out into other book clubs. Yes. So yes, if you are looking for book club to join, look no further,

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