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Read Your Color

Discover Your Reading Type and Build a Life-Changing Love of Books

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Read Your Color

By: Steven J. Reese
Narrated by: Steven J. Reese
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Summary
Get more out of reading with this radical guide to shelf-improvement, which reveals your core preferences and helps you choose books based on why you read, not what you’ve read before. Includes the viral Read Your Color quiz taken by more than two million people!

“A fun and insightful approach to cultivating both a habit of reading and a love of reading.”—Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well


Read Your Color introduces a six-type system that identifies the essential desires you have as a reader and builds a personalized plan from there. Are you a Red reader who craves intensity and stakes? A Blue reader seeking emotional resonance and truth? A Green reader looking for clarity and real-world application? Whoever you are, this framework gives you a vocabulary for your reading impulses and a map for reading well.

The book isn’t just a diagnostic manual; it’s a step-by-step guide to transformation designed to help you fall (or fall back) in love with books. Think of it as a personal trainer for your reading life. In Read Your Color, you'll

  • learn how to break free from algorithmic and genre-based reading habits
  • expand your literary range without losing your core preferences
  • build a sustainable rhythm that makes reading feel less like a chore and more like a reward

With honest cultural observations, tested psychological insights, and a practical 120-day plan, Read Your Color meets you where you are—scrolling, burned out, distracted—and shows you what’s possible on the other side of a truly meaningful reading life. Read Your Color doesn't ask you to try harder. It gives you the tools to fall in love with reading, and with who you become when you read the right way.


* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of key exercises and information from the book to help you find your reading type.
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“Most people don’t need more discipline to become readers. They need to discover the right books that will turn them into lifelong readers. In Read Your Color, Steven Reese offers a smart, practical system for doing exactly that. This book may be the reason you fall in love with reading again.”—Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and Building a StoryBrand

“If you want to read more but don’t know where or how to start, this is the book for you. Read Your Color develops a fun and insightful approach to cultivating both a habit and a love of reading. But this is also a book for those who are seasoned book lovers, presenting solid research, spirited encouragement, and bright affirmation of all the joys of reading. This is a book for every bookshelf.”—Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
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