Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures, Plates and Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 British Commonplace Readers, 1706-1879 -- Chapter 2 Reading in God's Treasure-House: The Societies for Purchasing Books in Leadhills and Wanlockhead, 1741-1820 -- Chapter 3 The School Library and Childhood Reading in Lowland Scotland, 1750-1850 -- Chapter 4 'Although ambitious we did not aspire to such dizzy heights': Manuscript Magazines and Communal Reading Practices of London Literary Societies in the Long Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5 Space and Place in Nineteenth-Century Images of Women Readers -- Chapter 6 Asian Classic Literature and the English General Reader, 1845-1915 -- Chapter 7 Readers and Reading During Russia's Literacy Transition, 1850-1950: How Readers Shaped a Great Literature -- Chapter 8 F. F. Pavlenkov's Literacy Project: Popular Serials and Reading Rooms for the Russian Masses -- Chapter 9 Formal and Informal Networks of Book Provision for Rural Children in Australia and New Zealand, 1900-60 -- Chapter 10 Putting Your Best Books Forward: A Historical and Psychological Look at the Presentation of Book Collections -- Chapter 11 In Search of the Chinese Common Reader: Vernacular Knowledge in an Age of New Media -- Chapter 12 From 'Bookworms' to 'Scholar-Farmers': Tao Xingzhi and Changing Understandings of Literacy in the Chinese Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1923-34 -- Chapter 13 The Voice of the Reader: The Landscape of Online Book Discussion in the Netherlands, 1997-2016 -- Chapter 14 Novel Ideas: The Promotion of North American Book Club Books and the Creation of Their Readers -- Chapter 15 Making the Story Real: Readers, Fans and the Novels of John Green -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Methods and Sources -- General Index