By locating Virginia Woolf`s "How One Should Read a Book," which can be called `the common reader`s manifesto of reading,` in the context of her other works such as "Happiness" and A Room of One`s Own, this paper aims to examine how the notions of `the reading method as gift` and `the happiness of singularity` are formulated and presented in the essay. Woolf`s reading method, based on her profound ethical and ontological understanding of the relationship between the author and the reader, is structured as the relation of the gift. Woolf suggests becoming-author as the key element in her reading method of gift. Becoming-author, as the reader`s proper response to the gift given by the author, is comprised of two stages; the first one is to allow ourself to be open to properly receive the gift from the author by eliminating the closed ego. Based on this reception, the readers should furthermore transform the gift into the source of his or her own creativity through the diverse experimentations of the author`s language. Such a form of creativity serves as a substantial foundation for the joyful reading occurring in Woolf`s reading as gift. Of interest here is that the joy of reading can be extended to the principle of `happiness of singularity.` By singularity, I mean the mode of individual existence in which one`s potentiality and creativity can be powerfully intensified and actualized by one`s encounter with the Other (or multiplicities). This mode of singularity gives the joy of freedom by liberating us from the shackles of pre-established ideas, social prejudices and ideologies. In the matrix of Woolf`s way of reading, the author and the readers met as the mode of singularity, and they weave their encounter into a higher stage of happiness by sharing their joy with other new readers. Borrowing from Spinozian dictum, we could conclude that their happiness is not the reward of the reading but the joyful reading itself.