100 Years of 100 Things: Best Sellers

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 21, 2025

As our centennial series continues, Tina Jordan, deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review, and a co-editor of The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History (Clarkson Potter, 2021), looks at the history of best-selling books and what that says out the past century of American culture.

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