“Something north of a hundred and fifty thousand books were published in 2009. That number daunted me, so I got to thinking of a year, three centuries ago, when, in all of the British mainland colonies, only thirty-one books were printed (if you discount a handful of broadsheets, proclamations, and volumes of laws). The pickings are slim—and grim—but here are my Top Ten Books of 1709:”
Harvard historian Jill Lepore has the list.
And number one, “The American Almanack.” See, see, almanacks are cool.
I’m just dying to know which made the Top Ten but I’m having problems accessing the link.
My apologies. The link has been corrected.
Thanks. I also had trouble with the link earlier. Even now I had to refresh this page to get it to work.