While authors plant the seeds of stories, invested audiences can bring books to life. From sharing the travels and trials of literary characters to touching the page of a book, reading often transforms from a simple pastime into an immersive experience via descriptions of embodiment woven throughout the narrative that can complement and even enhance readers’ awareness of their own bodies. Prior publications that have focused on how literature activates audiences include Wolfgang Iser’s 1972 Der implizite Leser on reader response theory; Monika Fludernik’s 1996 Towards a “Natural” Narratology on immersive reading derived from experientiality and embodiment, which comprises all manner of human experiences; and Marco Caracciolo’s 2014 The Experientiality of Narrative on physiological actions in fiction and resulting bodily reactions.