Only new books get on that list. Otherwise #1 would be the Bible every time.
IIRC "Hillbilly Elegy" got rave reviews from NPR when it came out.
Only lately have Democrats determined it was weird.
When Donald Trump was a TV celebrity and a commercial real-estate developer, he could hang out with Schumers and Clintons and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and the democRATs loved him. He “knew his place” and “stayed in his lane”.
Then he ran for President.
And that was not “his place”, nor was it “his lane”.
And Donald Trump suddenly became “LITERALY HITLER”, the most hated man by the left.
The same ‘rats are doing the same thing with Sen. Vance.