Sublime

The books were not organized by author, their author’s nationality, or even consistently by genre, but rather by how successful they were online—that was the algorithm Amazon Books used for determining the quality and value of literature. Engagement reigned supreme once again. Signs

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“What our readers hunger for,” I was told by Clifton Fadiman, a pillar of the club’s board of judges from 1944 until his death in 1999, “is books that explain. William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich explained a whole age to us.” A majority of the club’s biggest sellers, Fadiman pointed out, have been books that readers found helpf

raconteur?

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