{"id":4098,"date":"2021-03-31T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:11:30","slug":"what-we-all-have-been-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/what-we-all-have-been-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What We (All) Have Been Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/03\/NyusziRead.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4158\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/03\/NyusziRead-300x300.png\" alt=\"Reading rabbit\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/03\/NyusziRead-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/03\/NyusziRead-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/03\/NyusziRead-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/03\/NyusziRead-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/03\/NyusziRead.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As a project and as a blog, we here at Books We Read have been very interested in what\u2013\u2013and how\u2013\u2013people are reading during the pandemic. Are people taking the time indoors to tackle classics that they&#8217;d always wanted to read, or falling back on the authors or genres (or even the same novels) that have offered comfort in the past? Speaking for myself, I&#8217;ve done some of both, as have many of us on the project.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why some recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/03\/12\/books\/reading-trends.html?action=click&amp;module=At%20Home&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">findings<\/a> published in the <em>New York Times<\/em> grabbed our attention. Follow the link for the full writeup, but here are some interesting highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Physical books have seen their best sales in more than a decade\u2013\u2013print&#8217;s not (yet) dead!<\/li>\n<li>Audiobook and ebook sales were up as well; check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/summer-time-for-audiobooks\/\">posts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/resources\/audiobooks-for-quarantine\/\">pages<\/a> for more on both formats and how to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/resources\/how-to-find-ebooks-at-rutgers-and-beyond\/\">find<\/a> them at Rutgers.<\/li>\n<li>Befitting a presidential election year, 2020&#8217;s bestsellers were notably political: part 1 of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s autobiography <em>A Promised Land<\/em> was the most-sold print book of the year (matching his wife Michelle&#8217;s <em>Becoming<\/em>), while books about former President Donald Trump and his administration rode the bestseller list most of the year (but faded after he lost in November).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep reading, everyone! And speaking of the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> (which we&#8217;ve linked to often), I&#8217;ve found that good writing about books stimulates my mind about what I&#8217;ve been reading and whets my appetite for more. If you&#8217;re looking for good writing about books, then in addition to the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> you should check out outlets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/\"><em>Public Books<\/em><\/a> (no subscription required!), the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/\"><em>New York Review of Books<\/em><\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/\"><em>LA Review of Books<\/em><\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/\"><em>London Review of Books<\/em><\/a>&#8230; you get the idea.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>See more on <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/newspapers-at-rutgers\/\">how to access the New York Times and other newspapers<\/a> from Rutgers Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a project and as a blog, we here at Books We Read have been very interested in what\u2013\u2013and how\u2013\u2013people are reading during the pandemic. 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