The best book club books for men include Project Hail Mary, The Road, The Boys in the Boat, Shoe Dog, Killers of the Flower Moon and Lonesome Dove: gripping stories of survival, adventure and grit.

The best book club books for women over 50 include Lessons in Chemistry, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Tom Lake, Olive Kitteridge, The Women and A Man Called Ove: stories about reinvention, friendship and second acts.

The easiest ways to track your reading are an app like Goodreads or StoryGraph, a paper reading journal, or a simple spreadsheet. Here are 7 methods and what to track.

To annotate a book, choose a few tools, create a simple symbol or color key, mark key passages, write short notes in the margins and summarize each chapter. Here’s a step-by-step guide.

The average adult reads about 238 words per minute for nonfiction and 260 for fiction, and about 183 words per minute out loud. Here are reading speeds by age and grade, plus how to test yours.

A novella is a work of fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, usually about 17,500 to 40,000 words. Here’s the definition plus 10 great novellas to read.

An average adult novel has about 70,000 to 100,000 words, roughly 250 to 350 pages. Here are typical word counts by genre and for famous books.

To get out of a reading slump, switch to something short and fun, reread an old favorite, try a different format like audiobooks or graphic novels, and lower the pressure. Here are 12 tips that work.

For most stories and general nonfiction, listening to an audiobook leads to similar comprehension as reading. Print has an edge for complex material you need to study. Here’s what research says.