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 April.
| This Month | Last Month | Title | On List | |
| 1. | 1. |  |
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style |
4 months |
| 2. | 2. |  |
The Friend | 5 months |
| 3. | 4. |  |
The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms | 3 months |
| 4. | 3. |  |
Severance |
6 months |
| 5. | 7 |  |
Milkman | 4 months |
| 6. | 5. |  |
The William H. Gass Reader |
5 months |
| 7. | 6. |  |
Educated: A Memoir | 3 months |
| 8. | 8. |  |
My Year of Rest and Relaxation | 6 months |
| 9. | – |  |
Becoming | 1 month |
| 10. | 10. |  |
Transcription | 6 months |
What pairs better than Haruki Murakami and our site’s Hall of Fame? Running and The Beatles? Spaghetti and cats? This month, Murakami sent his fourth book, Killing Commendatore, to our hallowed Hall, equalling our site’s all-time record for works from a single author. (If someone ever asks you what the author has in common with David Mitchell, you’ll know what to say.)
For the most part, our list held steady from last month, with the exception of one high-profile newcomer. After spending four months in our “near misses” section, Michelle Obama’s Becoming finally cracked our April lineup. Surely Millions readers need no introduction to Obama, and don’t need to be handsold such a blockbuster memoir, but in case someone needs a nudge out there, it’s worth noting that Marta Bausells dug the audiobook in our most recent Year in Reading series. “[It] did GOOD things to me and I recommend,” Bausells wrote.
Next month a minimum of three slots should open on our list, so we should get some excitement. Stay tuned!
This month’s near misses included: The New Me, The Golden State, Circe, The Practicing Stoic: A Philosopher’s User Manual and The Great Believers. See Also: Last month’s list.
