Women Read More Than Men

That should come as no surprise. What a recent NPR story delves into is why. Is it because of biological differences in the male and female brain? Is it the way boys and girls are introduced to reading when they're young?

Some statistics:
A typical woman reads nine books in a year. A man reads five.
Women read more than men in all categories except histories and biographies.
Women account for 80% of all fiction reading.

So men, pick up some fiction. There's plenty of manly authors out there. Cormac McCarthy's recent The Road is a tremendous achievement in fiction, in a manly way. And, men, if you don't read fiction, well, there's Jon Krakauer's riveting work and journalists Mark Bowden and Pete Dexter all have some stories that are laden with testosterone. And, men, if you don't read books, well there's always Maxim.