This thesis investigates young people's (16-21) preferences in reading through a surveyincluding interviews and questionnaires. The groups attitudes towards reading and libraries,their reading and library habits, and to what extent eight libraries had bought the preferredliterature were also examined.Some reports from the 80's were used to find the changes. The result shows that youngstersread and visit libraries somewhat more frequently. Trivial literature is not as dominant, moreteenage-books were read. Popular themes are love, history, reality, fantasy/sf, and detectivestories. The books should be exciting or emotional. The way they were told was important -something earlier studies did not show.Reading was mainly connected with relaxation and the content was essential. The librarieswere important intermediaries and the majority was happy with the collection. 21% of themost popular titles were missing, and only an average of 1,5-5 books were available of mosttitles.

This thesis investigates young people´s (16-21) preferences in reading through a survey including interviews and questionnaires. The groups attitudes towards reading and libraries, their reading and library habits, and to what extent eight libraries had bought the preferred literature were also examined. Some reports from the 80´s were used to find the changes. The result shows that youngsters read and visit libraries somewhat more frequently. Trivial literature is not as dominant, more teenage-books were read. Popular thems are love, history, reality, fantasy/sf, and detective stories. The books should be exciting or emotional. The way they were told was important - something earlier studies did not show. Reading was mainly connected with relaxation and the content was essential. The libraries were important intermediaries and the majority was happy with the collection. 21% of the most popular titles were missing, and only an average of 1,5-5 books were available of most titles.

Vår undersökning handlar om vad och i vilka sammanhang flickor respektive pojkar läser i skolår 3 på X-skolan. Den handlar även om hur lärarna i skolår 3 på X-skolan arbetar för att främja elevernas läsintressen. För att undersöka detta har vi genomfört en enkätundersökning, elevintervjuer, lärarintervjuer samt klassrumsobservationer. I vår undersökning kommer vi fram till att mysterieböcker och relationsböcker är de mest populära böckerna bland både flickor och pojkar i skolan. Flickorna läser dessa böcker även på fritiden vilket pojkarna inte gör. På fritiden väljer pojkarna i första hand att inte läsa någonting eller att läsa serietidningar. Vi kommer även fram till att flickorna och pojkarna läser lika mycket i skolan. På fritiden däremot läser flickorna mer än vad pojkarna gör. Vår slutsats är att pojkarnas knappa läsning på fritiden möjligtvis kan bero på att deras föräldrar inte läser högt för dem. En annan bidragande faktor kan vara att läsningen i skolan stämmer överens med vad flickorna väljer att läsa på fritiden medan pojkarnas läsning på fritiden inte får något erkännande av lärarna i samma utsträckning. Detta innebär att lärarna stimulerar flickornas läsintressen mer än pojkarnas. Vi kommer även fram till att lärarnas läsfrämjande arbete fokuserar på läsning som färdighetsträning.