The biggest reading came from the spout.
White Teeth has been a reading group staple - and also, according to a Bookseller survey, the biggest reading group disappointment.
"This is the biggest reading of War and Peace in the world – a four-day marathon, uniting the whole country and people all over the world.
In additional experiments, the Stanford researchers found clues about what's different about the brains of dyslexic children who show the biggest reading improvements.
For one thing, I've had to remind people that the biggest reading tool they have is right in the palm of their hand -- their smartphones.
All are part of the Big Read, a National Endowment for the Arts literacy program now in its second year.
Here are the books being read in some cities and towns across the region as part of the Big Read, a program financed by the National Endowment for the Arts to promote literature.
Mr. Landesman has put his stamp on the budget, cutting a program known as American Masterpieces (though sparing one of its most popular components, the Big Read) and devoting $5 million to a pilot program, Our Town, that will support the creation of local arts districts.
Instead he attributed the increase in literary reading to community-based programs like the "Big Read," Oprah Winfrey's book club, the huge popularity of book series like "Harry Potter" and Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight," as well as the individual efforts of teachers, librarians, parents and civic leaders to create "a buzz around literature that's getting people to read more in whatever medium".
Under Mr. Gioia's leadership the endowment spearheaded "The Big Read," a program in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest to encourage communities to champion the reading of particular books, like "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston.
While midwifing the nonpartisan NEA's one-city-one-book program, The Big Read, I visited more than 100 public libraries in 40-some states, with a fat deck of library cards in my desk now to prove it.
