3 out of 5 never read a book after high school

I originally heard this on the radio (don’t remember the source), but I found the same data quoted by Para Publishing, who is quoting Jerrold Jenkins:

• 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.
• 42% of college graduates never read another book.
• 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57% of new books are not read to completion.

http://www.parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm

This statistic makes me blush.  I believe another stat from that source was that the average page where people stop reading a book is page 18.

Reading teaches, challenges, and helps one think more critically - three things that most of us can use.  Try to read a book by the end of the summer.  Here are a few of my favorites:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

And the one I’m reading right now:

• Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark

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