The Millions Top Ten: November 2013

December 1, 2013 | 15 books mentioned 17

We spend plenty of time here on The Millions telling all of you what we’ve been reading, but we are also quite interested in hearing about what you’ve been reading. By looking at our Amazon stats, we can see what books Millions readers have been buying, and we decided it would be fun to use those stats to find out what books have been most popular with our readers in recent months. Below you’ll find our Millions Top Ten list for November.

This
Month
Last
Month
Title On List
1. 1. cover Selected Stories 2 months
2. 2. cover The Flamethrowers 2 months
3. 3. cover The Pioneer Detectives 5 months
4. 4. cover Taipei 6 months
5. 5. cover The Luminaries 2 months
6. 8. cover The Goldfinch 2 months
7. 6. cover The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose 2 months
8. 7. cover Fox 8 5 months
9. 9. cover Bleeding Edge 3 months
10. cover The Lowland 2 months

 

There wasn’t much action on our list November as the top 5 stayed unchanged. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch was the big mover, jumping from the eighth spot to the sixth.

The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson graduates to our illustrious Hall of Fame after a six-month run on the list that was initially spurred by the book’s Pulitzer win earlier this year. That departure makes room for the return of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

Near Misses: Night Film, Visitation Street, The Interestings, MaddAddam and Dear Life. See Also: Last month’s list.

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