It's tempting to compare yourself to others when pursuing a reading goal. According to the Pew Research Center, the average person in the U.S. reads most 12 books per year—but that number won't assist you if yous read at a different stride than the average American. To figure out how many books you could read in a twelvemonth, Lenstore has come up upwardly with a exam that measures your individual reading skills.

To kickoff, click on the examination beneath and read the passages that pop up at your natural reading speed. Once you've finished, you'll be asked a few questions about the reading to prove yous understood information technology.

Lenstore gave the test to 1600 people and institute that the average participant took 101 seconds to consummate the passage. If a person reads for xxx minutes a day at that speed, they can get through 33 books a year (assuming book lengths average out to 90,000 words). Speedy readers who blast through the passage in 60 seconds can read 55 books in a year with 30 minutes of daily reading time—which comes out to but over one volume a week.

If one-half an hour of reading a solar day sounds overly optimistic, yous can see how your book goal would alter based on your reading schedule. Lenstore likewise shows yous how long it would have to read specific books based on your reading speed. They give examples of long reads that require many hours of commitment, like War and Peace, every bit well as quick books similar The Color Purple.

Subsequently taking the test, check out Barack Obama'south listing of the all-time books of 2022 for some suggestions of what to read adjacent.

A version of this story ran in 2018; it has been updated for 2021.