Best Seller: A Century of America's Favorite Books

Contents:
Reaching the top of the shelf: discovering a century of bestsellers
Birth of the bestseller: The 1890s to the 1930s
The 1940s: All the books fit to sell
The 1950s: Cold War anxiety: from Holden Caulfield to James Bond
The 1960s: New frontiers: from Harper Lee to Kurt Vonnegut
The 1970s: The age of narcissism
The 1980s: The rise of the superstar author
The 1990s: Means of ascent: publisher consolidation, superstores, and the Internet
The 2000s: E-books and the new millennium
The 2010s: James Patterson Inc. and the soul of America