Good lord. This is an announcement of a series of in-depth posts by a literary and historical periodical, not a listicle. There will be ten more posts where thi

Good lord. This is an announcement of a series of in-depth posts by a literary and historical periodical, not a listicle. There will be ten more posts where this came from: https://annotated.laphamsquarterly.org/page/forgotten-best-sellers https://annotated.laphamsquarterly.org/page/forgotten-best-s... Many works by people of color and women have been suppressed or deliberately 'forgotten' by racist and sexist publishers and critics, far more than the white men whose demographic dwarfs the contributions of others regardless of quality. This makes those books worthy of special attention by historians even if they had not, as the post clearly states, already shown their merit by being best sellers on (as you request) their own merits.