What are you reading?

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

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…