10 Must-Read Books to Add to Your Reading List This Year

For years, reading culture online seemed increasingly focused on numbers. Readers posted annual totals. Apps counted completed titles. Social media challenges encouraged people to finish dozens, sometimes hundreds, of books each year. Short books became attractive partly because they helped readers move quickly toward another completed title. Now another philosophy is gaining attention. Slow reading encourages people to stop treating books like items on a productivity checklist. Instead of asking how many books they can finish, readers focus on how

Reading an e-book once meant doing essentially the same thing people had done with printed books for centuries. You opened the book, moved from one page to another, placed a bookmark, and perhaps highlighted a passage. The screen changed the delivery method, but the relationship between reader and book remained largely unchanged. Artificial intelligence is beginning to challenge that model. New reading tools can answer questions about characters, explain difficult passages, summarize what a reader has already finished, provide contextual