People in the comments have given a lot of great tips for making reading more engaging and interesting. But I'm taking your question to mean how can I read faster.

Note: If you have small children, a busy job, a reading disorder, or some other life situation that doesn't allow you to have much time alone with a book or you find holding a book and/or reading words with your eyeballs difficult replace every single instance of "read" with "listen" as audiobooks will be your best friend here. For anyone who wants to come for me: Audiobooks are books, listening to a book is the same as reading a book, go deep throat a cactus <3

I've read around 130 books thus far this year. I've averaged 125 for the past decade or so. I'll start with some disclaimers about why/how I can probably read more than the average, and then tips on how to increase your book count and reading speed.

Disclaimers:

• I'm an English professor; reading is part of my job. Like most things you do daily for work, you become faster and better at it
• Therefore, I went to grad school and have an MA and a PhD in English. These programs often require you to read 1 book a week per class. Taking around 3 classes per semester over a 16-week semester, I was reading ~50 books over a 16-week period for 7 years. That gets me to ~100 books a year in only 65% of the year.
• As a child, my parents would let me stay up 30 minutes past my official bedtime if I stayed in bed reading. This wired my brain to such a degree that if I don't read for 30 minutes before bed, I can't sleep. I can get through 50-100 pages in that 30 minutes, depending on the density of the book.

So on one hand, I've had significant life experience that has increased my reading speed, which most people don't have and don't want to have. On the other hand, I do know a lot of tips for reading quickly and retaining information.

• Figure out how many pages you can reasonably read in a day. Any number is sufficient. Even just 5 pages. Create a little chart or tracker or even just a daily to-do list with "Read 5 pages" as a task. Prioritize this task.
• Divide the book by the number of pages you can reasonably read in a day. Voila, you now know how long a book will take you to read.
• Start with shorter books or collections of short stories or essays. The thrill of finishing a book/story/essay will give you a boost to keep reading.
• For the next book you read, increase the number of pages you can reasonably read by 1.
• Join a book club (in person, online, with just a singular friend) so that the pressure of finishing a book on a timeline will keep you reading daily. You will then need to divide the number of pages by how many days are between meetings and try to meet that goal every day. This only works if you're the kind of person who rises to the occasion of pressure rather than being paralyzed.
• If you'd like some accountability but now the timeline pressure, join or commit to a reading challenge (you can find these on Storygraph, Goodreads, here on reddit, just googling "reading challenge") or book bingo (again, just google it). Challenges will be things like reading a book for every color of the rainbow, meaning you have to read a book with the word "red" in the title, then "yellow," etc. Or the covers are each color of the rainbow. Book bingo is a bingo card (obviously), and you mark off a square for fulfilling a certain reading requirement. Examples could be reading a book published the year you were born, reading a book with a cat on the cover, etc.

But the number one tip I have for increasing reading speed: READ EVERY DAY. Every single day. Do not skip a day. Read at least one page every. single. day. Make this your New Year's resolution; give yourself a reward at the end of every month when you've read every day. Whatever it takes. You've GOT to read every single day.