Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- What is everyday reading? -- Why use an ethnographic method? -- Ethnography and reading in cultural studies: from Fiction and the Reading Public (1932) to Book Clubs (2003) -- Everyday readers: readers and methods -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Introduction -- Disorderly reading? -- The spatio-temporal economy of everyday reading -- Spaces of reading: the bedroom -- Spaces of reading: public transport -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Introduction -- From the solitary to the social reader -- All in the family: growing-up reading -- Friendship and modernity -- Proto-communities -- Books and friendship networks -- Talking books -- Whose values? -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 4 -- Introduction -- Remember the text? -- Expectations -- Five ways of reading: making a novel mean -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Coda -- List of References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index.