Dateline: 2004-07-08. Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey
The survey asked more than 17,000 adults if - during the previous 12 months - they had read any novels, short stories, poetry or plays in their leisure time, that were not required for work or school.

Here's my list. Not all are "literary"; that is, some are non-fiction. How would you have answered?

• 2004-01-02. Girl With A Pearl Earring.
• 2004-01-06. The Commodore.
• 2004-01-09. The Yellow Admiral.
• 2004-01-18. The Hundred Days.
• 2004-01-23. Blue at the Mizzen.
• 2004-01-26. Master and Commander.
• 2004-01-30. Reverse of the Medal.
• 2004-02-09. The Hand Sculpted House.
• 2004-02-18. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. (again)
• 2004-02-26. The Surgeon's Mate.
• 2004-03-04. The Ionian Mission.
• 2004-03-08. The Well of Lost Plots.
• 2004-03-26. Horatio Hornblower and the Hotspur.
• 2004-03-28. Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles.
• 2004-04-01. A Conspiracy of Paper.
• 2004-04-05. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood.
• 2004-04-15. Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions from a Master Craftsman.
• 2004-04-26. Treason's Harbor.
• 2004-04-28. Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home.
• 2004-05-03. Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon
• 2004-05-14. Canyon: The Ultimate Book on Whitewater Rafting in the Grand Canyon. Michael P. Ghiglieri.
• 2004-05-19. HMS Surprise.
• 2004-05-26. The Letter of Marque.
• 2004-06-06. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea.
• 2004-06-10. The Good Citizen's Handbook: A Guide to Proper Behavior.
• 2004-06-12. Remembering the Kanji I.
• 2004-06-13. Kanji ABC.
• 2004-06-14. Great Northern.
• 2004-06-24. Dune. (again)
• 2004-06-29. Post Captain.
• 2004-07-04. The Far Side of the World.
• 2004-07-28. Holes.
• 2004-08-02. The Truelove.
• 2004-08-05. Desolation Island.
• 2004-08-07. The Golden Compass.
• 2004-08-08. The Subtle Knife.
• 2004-08-12. The Amber Spyglass.
• 2004-09-18. Anne of Green Gables. (again)
• 2004-09-20. Anne's House of Dreams
• 2004-10-12. Identity.
• 2004-10-17. The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing.
• 2004-10-26. Something Rotten.
• 2004-11-18. Master and Commander. (again)
• 2004-12-05. How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel.
• 2004-12-09. The Long Winter. (again) Little Town on the Prairie. (again)
• 2004-12-10. These Happy Golden Years. (again)
• 2004-12-11. In His Arms.

Now that I've finished my writing project, I'm reading and reading.