That sounds like almost any high school student if you ask me. Your self-education should always be a top priority along with your health, so learn to map out your days around these focal points.Īnother favorite excuse used is that you don’t enjoy reading that you find it boring. The key is to schedule your day in a manner that best serves you. If you have time for Netflix, you have time to read. We all make time for the things we like and care about, no matter what. But what you are saying is that reading is not a priority. The most popular excuse I’ve heard would have to be that you are too busy to read, that there aren’t enough hours in the day to get around to it. So how do we make ourselves take 15-30 minutes out of our day to pick up a book in our modern world filled with constant distractions? Let’s first take a look at the most common excuses and see how we can overcome them. I bet you spend at least an hour or two doing that every single day ( admittedly, I am just as guilty as you are oftentimes). Think about how much time you spend on Facebook or Instagram in a given day, mindlessly scrolling through your feed. Anybody and I do mean anybody, no matter how busy they are, can find at least 15-30 minutes a day to invest in themselves by choosing to read. It may seem hard to believe, but all you need is 15 minutes a day to invest in yourself to accomplish reading ten books a year. With the average reading speed ranging between 200 and 250 words-per-minute and the average page having roughly 400 words on it, it would take the reader anywhere from 13 to 16 minutes to reach their daily quota of eight pages.

If we were to take the average book-length to be 300 pages, that would mean that the average reader is reading just shy of ten pages a day.

Even if we assume the average American reader finishes ten books a year, it is still less than one book a month. This data does include adults that opted out of reading entirely, so I would imagine that the average is a bit higher for those who do read. But for the average American, 30 books in a year may seem like a difficult milestone to reach.Īccording to the Pew Research Center, in 2013, the average American read a total of five books. To a select few, 30 books may not seem like much or may even be their mid-year goal as they seek to hit 75 or even 100 books in a given year. It was quite an accomplishment for me since just three years earlier I read a meager nine books. According to my Goodreads account, in 2017, I read a total of 30 books.

Best reads 2017 under 250 pages