Bestsellers
Wikipedia has a list of the bestselling books according to the New York Times, broken down by year, reaching back to 1931. This means you can look up the bestselling book from your birth week.
Mine was Watership Down by Richard Adams, and… I haven’t read it. I cringe because it seems like the sort of thing I should have read by this point (isn’t it often assigned at school?). I also haven’t read the books from Josh or the twins’ birthdays. Or my parents’ birthdays. Or my sister’s or brother’s birthdays.
Have you read the book that was the number one bestseller from your birthday?
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Your link leads to 2024; I think this is the link you’re looking for:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_The_New_York_Times_number-one_books
I’m not sure I’ve even hear of the book of my bday week!
OMG, you haven’t read Watership Down? With your love of furry little critters?
Nope, I had not even heard of the book that was #1 for almost 6 months! I’ve found it at the library, put it on hold, but wondering if I will feel like reading it this year, pre-US-election, given that it is an allegory about the rise of Nazism. Ugh.
Mine was The Love Machine, which I have not read. But I’m glad I wasn’t born earlier, or it would have been Portnoy’s Complaint…which I started but gave up on.👀