The Best Selling Books of All Time

There are four on the list that I haven’t read, The Dream of the Red Chamber, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 50 Shades, and The Revolt of Mamie Stover. I put  Mamie Stover and the Red Chamber on my Amazon list, but I have so little time to read fiction that I can’t see reading 50 Shades. I tend to lean more to the historical than the modern and to the epic than the sordid and I’d generally rather read a new version of the Iliad since I know I’m going to love that.

I just finished The Witches by Stacey Schiff and it was excellent, everything you ever wanted to know about 17th Century trial law, Puritans, Massachusetts Bay Colony Charters and the New Englander’s idea of witchcraft. It’s long, 512 pages, meticulously researched, and got me thoroughly outraged, pissed off, depressed, anxious, you know, all the feels. It is a scholarly work, not fiction so the references are there if you want to do more research on any particulars. I recommend it.

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