The Page
Pounders

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Aggressively Literate

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Who We Are

The Page Pounders are a group of guys in their 30s who figured out the only reliable way to actually finish a book is to let your friends guilt you into it. We meet monthly to vote on our next read (fantasy epics, sci-fi doorstoppers, and the occasional piece of fiction that makes you question your grip on reality), then show up a few weeks later with cold drinks and very strong opinions. The whole point is to read books you'd never pick yourself and force your friends to read the ones you would.

Our Tastes
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Weird & Literary Fiction
Long-Running Series
Crunchy World-Building
Epic Fantasy
Hard Sci-Fi
Speculative Fiction
Book of the Year
The Shelf
By The Numbers
6,405
Kindle Pages Read
across all 12 books
The complete Frank Herbert Dune saga spans six books and roughly 5,100 pages. We cleared the whole thing and still had 1,300 pages left in the year.
255hrs
Hours Listened
total Audible runtime
Enough to drive coast to coast from New York to LA and back, three times over.
2.1M
Words Devoured
combined word count
The average person speaks 16,000 words a day. Our entire year of reading is what 131 people say in a single day.
From The Stacks