Discover your reading type. Build a life-changing love of books.
Get more out of reading with this radical guide to shelf-improvement, which reveals your core preferences and helps you choose books based on why you read, not what you’ve read before.
A fun and insightful approach to cultivating both a habit of reading and a love of reading.
A vocabulary for your reading impulses — and a map for reading well.
Read Your Color introduces a six-type system that identifies the essential desires you have as a reader and builds a personalized plan from there. It includes the viral Read Your Color quiz — taken by more than two million people.
Are you a Red reader who craves intensity and stakes? A Blue reader seeking emotional resonance and truth? A Green reader looking for clarity and real-world application? Whoever you are, this framework gives you a vocabulary for your reading impulses and a map for reading well.
The book isn’t just a diagnostic manual; it’s a step-by-step guide to transformation designed to help you fall — or fall back — in love with books.
Red
Craves intensity, stakes, and stories that grip from the first page.
Blue
Seeks emotional resonance, meaning, and truth.
Green
Looks for clarity and real-world application.
Yellow
Reads for connection — people, places, and belonging.
Orange
Chases wonder — the strange, the new, the imaginative.
Purple
Hunts surprise — ideas and structures that rewire the mind.
Not a must-read list. A system that fits you.
- 01A 120-day reading plan for your color — guided start to finish.
- 02How your reading type builds a habit that finally lasts — no guilt, no grind.
- 03How to walk into any bookstore and pick the books that are right for you.
- 04The full framework behind the viral quiz — all six colors and twelve reader types, explained.
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Steven J. Reese
Steven J. Reese is a reader, creator, and former book-hater turned reading evangelist. After years of feeling bored or burned out by reading, a few well-timed book recommendations changed everything.
He created the viral Read Your Color quiz and framework — taken by over two million readers — to help others fall in love with books the same way he did: not through guilt or grind, but by understanding themselves.
Steven lives in Colorado with his wife and two kids, and when he’s not reading, he’s designing, writing, and building things that make people think.
Become someone who reads.
Pre-order Read Your Color today — and start reading like yourself.