Yesterday we passed the 1/2 million mark for books read at Tar Heel Reader. These books have been read in 109 countries. I’m excited and pleased to be part of such a successful project.

We are approaching 5000 books on the site (4937 as I write this). Thank you to all the authors who have contributed your work.

The top ten countries in number of books read are:

1. USA
2. Canada
3. Australia
4. Germany
5. Great Britain
6. New Zealand
7. Korea
8. Spain
9. Italy
10. Japan

You can learn more about where our readers are and see them on a world map here.