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 May.
| This Month |
Last Month |
Title | On List | |
| 1. | 1. |  |
Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever | 5 months |
| 2. | 2. |  |
Tenth of December | 5 months |
| 3. | 3. |  |
An Arrangement of Light | 6 months |
| 4. | 5. |  |
Stand on Zanzibar | 3 months |
| 5. | 4. |  |
The Middlesteins | 3 months |
| 6. | 6. |  |
Building Stories | 5 months |
| 7. | 7. |  |
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | 3 months |
| 8. | 10. |  |
Vampires in the Lemon Grove | 2 months |
| 9. | – |  |
The Orphan Master’s Son | 1 month |
| 10. | 8. |  |
Arcadia | 5 months |
May was quiet for our list, with the top three positions unchanged, including Millions ebook Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever at number one.
Our one debut, an number eight, is Adam Johnson’s much lauded The Orphan Master’s Son, recent recipient of both the Pulitzer and the Rooster.
Johnson’s book pushes the David Foster Wallace essay collection Both Flesh and Not off the list.
Other Near Misses: Fox 8, The Round House, All That Is, and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. See Also: Last month’s list.
