The Upper Middle “Summer Reading Survey” found that the rich are different than you and I (they read more), that high-earners look (desperately) for answers in non-fiction, and that books we recommend are more emotional than the books we seek out, suggesting a kindness at the heart of reading culture. The survey – skewed by who chose to participate, 31% of whom were in book clubs and 72% of whom were women – also found that we are nerds. We read 36.3 books a year on average.
Or we round up.
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Net worth was strongly correlated (4.2) with reading, but the relationship wasn’t linear. People with $1M–$2.5M in assets—mostly earning over $250K, and wrangling kids—read less than those with both less and more money. Lack of spare time and exhaustion explains the dip, as well as the spike in reading among those with $2.5M+ and, notably, a much higher appetite for fiction (chalk it up to ye olde hierarchy of needs).
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