5 Ways Reading Novels Every Day Makes You Happier and Healthier

Fiction offers surprising benefits to your physical and mental well-being

Corrie Alexander
In Fitness And In Health
4 min readDec 16, 2022

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Woman reading a book while lying by a window
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As a kid and young adult, I read a lot of fiction. My idea of a Saturday afternoon well spent was wandering through the bookstore’s aisles to carefully pick out my next read.

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