Six readers · Six hungers
What kind of reader are you?
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Wings
Roots
Heart
Head
How it works

Genre, tropes, and bestseller lists are failing you. Try a better way.

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Take the assessment

Rate a stack of book blurbs and a handful of quick statements. About five minutes — no sign-up, no email wall.

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Find your color

You land on one of six reading colors, with a subtype that names the hunger underneath the books you reach for.

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Build a Reading Habit

Start reading books you love and grow a love for reading that will fuel a lifetime, life-changing habit.

The reading compass

Find your spot on the compass.

  • Heart ↔ Head — do you read to feel, or to think?
  • Roots ↔ Wings — the straightforward and real, or the imagined and experimental?

Two axes place every reader on the compass. Six colors. Each one splits into two subtypes — twelve in all.

Find your color The full map — and how to read your way around it — lives in the book.
Wings
Roots
Heart
Head
OrangeWonder
PurpleSurprise
RedIntensity
BlueMeaning
YellowConnection
GreenClarity
Twelve subtypes

Which one is you?

Meet all twelve in the book — diagnose your color and learn the whole system.

Read Your Color by Steven J. Reese
The book · out November 3, 2026

The whole system, start to finish.

The assessment names your color. The book is everything after — a guided, color-by-color path from the books you love to the ones that once defeated you.

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    Three books a month, chosen for your color.

    Every month we send you three secondhand books — hand-picked for your reading color, and rescued from the landfill by an independent, ethically-run bookshop we love. A beautiful way to build a library you'll actually read.

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