Overview
- INEGI’s 2024 reading module reports that the share of people who say they read books fell from 50.2% in 2015 to 41.8% in 2024.
- Adults read an average of 3.2 books in the past year, while 69.3% of the population self-identifies as readers of some written material and 30.4% does not.
- Entertainment is the leading stated motive for reading at 41.2%, followed by work or study at 23.4%, culture at 23.2%, and religion at 10.6%.
- UABC editor Laura Figueroa Lizárraga calls books essential for social improvement and cites rising youth attendance at the university’s book fair, highlighting the role of university presses.
- Media roundups highlight confirmed 2026 screen adaptations that could spur interest in source texts, including Project Hail Mary, Wuthering Heights, The Odyssey, Verity, and a new Hunger Games film.