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What were they reading?: Bestsellers from 1930-2000

Here's a sampling of No. 1 bestsellers from the past eight decades – all worthy additions to this summer's reading list.

5. From 1970: “Love Story” by Erich Segal

‘What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.”

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