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IMHO, you have to use the bestseller lists intelligently. Blindly reading (no pun intended) everything that happens to show up there would be a huge waste of time. I have little appetite for political memoir--would you like some spin with your ghostwritten spin?--but am happy to read properly researched history. Similarly, I'll skip the latest factory fiction that sells well at Costco and debuts at #1, but if something shows up on the list that I read a good review of somewhere else, and it doesn't sound completely dreadful, I might try it.
But you'd go broke buying everything you want to read. When I read the NYT Review of Books and see something I think worth a shot, I put it on hold at my local library. Do I care that there's a 1-3 month wait? Nope...I'm in the middle of reading something I put on hold three months ago that just came in.
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