PSA: 57 percent of book club picks get abandoned before the meeting, according to a survey I saw at my library in Boise

David Rivera · 2026-09-28T15:45:04.784156+00:00

I was killing time at the Boise library last month and picked up a flyer about a reading habits survey from a group at Boise State. It said 57 percent of people quit the chosen book before the discussion and just show up anyway, which explains a lot about my own club. Does your group pick shorter books on purpose, or do you just let people fake it?

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