Reading a Century's Bestsellers

Matt Kahn has launched 100 Years, 94 Books, the ambitious project of reading and reviewing thePublishers Weekly‘s #1 bestselling books for each of the last 100 years, which, with some books hitting #1 more than once, totals 94 books. Kahn, a creative writing student at California State University, Northridge, began last week with 1913′s #1 book, The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill, and at the rate of one review a week, will finish (about two years from now) with 2013′s bestselling book, still to be decided by sales. Along with the review, Kahn will provide on his blog historical context “in an attempt to figure out just what made these particular books popular at that particular time.”