Recreational books: consumer expenditure in the U.S. 1999-2022
Consumer expenditure on recreational books in the United States amounted to 25.92 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, up from just under 24 billion a year earlier. Americans tend to spend between 18 and 20 billion U.S. dollars on recreational books each year, but the years 2021 and 2022 saw the figure reach levels last seen in the early 2000s.