During a survey held in early 2019, ** percent of respondents with an annual household income of more than * U.S. dollars a year stated they had read at least one book in the previous 12 months. Whilst this figure remains unchanged from 2018, there remains a clear correlation between book readership and income. For individuals with annuals household earnings of less than ** thousand U.S. dollars, the share of adults who had read a book in any format in the last year was ** percent lower than for those earning *** or more.
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Pew Research Center. (September 25, 2019). Share of adults who have read a book in any format in the last 12 months in the United States in 2019, by household income [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 31, 2026, from /statistics/249795/book-reading-population-in-the-us-by-household-income/
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