On the day that Quick Reads 2013 launches, new research shows that a quarter of UK adults (over 12 million people) have only picked up a book to read for pleasure once or less in the past six months.

Bus passengers in Southend, students at Highlands College in Jersey and cleaners and teaching staff at De Montfort University are just some of the people being recruited for this year's Six Book Challenge.

Dawn Williams is a cleaner at Alpha Hospital, Bury where she took part in the 2012 Six Book Challenge. She says The Six Book Challenge has widened her horizons.

The Six Book Challenge is being used in a special project in ten young offender institutions (YOIs) thanks to Booker-winner Julian Barnes choosing The Reading Agency for the Clarissa Luard Award when he won the David Cohen Prize last year.

"The thing that meant the most to me about the Six Book Challenge was actually enjoying the content of the books that I read. I found the Challenge focussed and informative and I would recommend anyone to do it."

Simon Wallace, Community & Diversity Manager at Southend Libraries, inspires us with news of what Southend Libraries have done to promote the Quick Reads initiative.

The Quick Reads 2014 titles have been announced.

We're very pleased to announce that in 2013, less confident readers in Wales can choose whether to take part in Welsh or English or a mixture of both. Thanks to support from the Welsh Government and Welsh Books Council, we're delighted to offer bilingual materials for the Six Book Challenge in Wales for the first time.

Jillian Leader, 49, left school aged 16 with almost no qualifications, she tells us how taking part in the Six Book Challenge has helped to turn her life around

Find out more about running Reading Ahead (the new name for the Six Book Challenge) at your organisation.

With almost 100 prisons taking part in the 2012 Six Book Challenge it's great that people are always finding new ways to use the scheme.

Reading Groups for Everyone celebrates all the good things that happen when people come together to talk about reading and books.

Familes are doing the Summer Reading Challenge and Six Book Challenge together.

Now that we've got news of early completers for this year's Six Book Challenge it's time to remind you about the prizes on offer.