 During its two-decade run, the catalog was published up to 17 times each year and listed hundreds of titles in each issue, each with its own write-up.A Common Reader circulated to hundreds of thousands of readers and at its peak sold over 300,000 books a year.Its in-house imprint, Akadine Press, republished over 60 out-of-print books by such authors as Lillian Beckwith, Alice Thomas Ellis, Barbara Holland, Reynolds Price, and John Ciardi.