The best books to read when you feel lost include Man’s Search for Meaning, The Midnight Library, The Alchemist, Designing Your Life, The Defining Decade and Four Thousand Weeks: books that bring perspective, comfort and direction.
The best book club books for teens include The Hate U Give, The Hunger Games, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Long Way Down, The Outsiders and Six of Crows: gripping reads with big questions to discuss.
The best book club books for seniors include A Gentleman in Moscow, A Man Called Ove, The Thursday Murder Club, The Boys in the Boat, 84 Charing Cross Road and Being Mortal: warm, thoughtful reads with large-print editions.
The best book club books for couples include Project Hail Mary, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gone Girl, The Rosie Project and An American Marriage: books both partners enjoy and love to debate.
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.
A Kindle is better for convenience, travel, adjustable text and cheaper ebooks, while paperbacks are better for focus, memory of plot details, annotation and screen-free reading. Here’s a full comparison.
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.