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What are you reading?

Friday comment thread, and I know you'll have an answer. Also, 7 other things worth knowing today.

Bill Murphy Jr.
Mar 4, 2022
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Just over 90 years ago, on October 12, 1931, the New York Times ran its first bestseller list. Top of the charts that day in fiction:

  • The Ten Commandments, by Warwick Deeping

  • Finch’s Fortune, by Mazo de la Roche

  • The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

  • Shadows on the Rock, by Willa Cather

  • Scaramouche the King Maker, by Rafael Sabatini

As for nonfiction:

  • Ellen Terry a…

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