http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20381678...oks-last-year/
2007, 25% of Americans had not read a book
http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html
In 2002, half of American adults in the study read literature. The report does not define what literary reading is but I am guessing it is not romance, mysteries, and action adventure books.