“Tuesday evening, after work, in an English pub near my work, six of us meet to drink beers around a fish and chips. But there is no question of watching the Champions League or even attending the quiz evening. We will discuss the book Save [inédit en français]by Tim Chawaga, a science fiction detective novel set in a dystopian Miami.†This is how the specialized site Literary Hub begins his dive into the still unknown world of men’s book clubs.
Because, in the collective imagination, these readers’ meetings have long had the image of readers’ meetings. “It’s not easy to find guys who like to read… recognizes, for Literary Hub, the author Kristopher Jansma. And all the studies show it: men read less and less, and fiction is particularly neglected. According to a study by the American federal agency National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in 2025, only 27.7% of the men questioned had read a work of fiction over the past year, a drop of 7 points compared to 2015. A significantly lower than that of the female readership, which, again according to the NEA, reached 46.9%.
The decline in reading among men has many causes: vamp social networks
