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. |  |
The Glass Hotel | 3 months |
| 2. | 3. |  |
The City We Became | 3 months |
| 3. | 5. |  |
Trick Mirror | 6 months |
| 4. | 4. |  |
Night Boat to Tangier |
5 months |
| 5. | 9. |  |
Interior Chinatown | 4 months |
| 6. | – |  |
Tell It Slant |
1 month |
| 7. | 6. |  |
The Resisters | 4 months |
| 8. | 7. |  |
The Mirror & the Light | 3 months |
| 9. | – |  |
All My Mother’s Lovers | 1 month |
| 10. | – |  |
The Moment of Tenderness | 1 month |
Rejoice, Millions faithful! Our own Adam O’Fallon Price has reached our site’s Hall of Fame thanks to six strong monthly showings for The Hotel Neversink. O’Fallon Price is now the fifth Millions staffer to reach the Hall—he joins site founder C. Max Magee (The Late American Novel), along with Mark O’Connell (Epic Fail), Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven), and Garth Risk Hallberg (City on Fire). It also looks like St. John Mandel may become the first Millions staffer to reach the Hall twice, as she notches yet another month atop our Top Ten with her latest novel, The Glass Hotel.
At the same time, Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous both dropped out of the running this month, continuing the on-again, off-again trend they’ve maintained for a couple months.
Combined, these departures made way for three arrivals.
Tell It Slant, a ubiquitous craft mainstay, which had most recently been referenced on our site in a 2018 piece by Vivian Wagner, burst up to the sixth position on our list after a month or two among our “near misses.” Likewise, The Moment of Tenderness moved from the same group into our 10th spot. Then, All My Mother’s Lovers, which was featured recently in a Tuesday New Release Day post, made it into the ninth position.
See y’all next month as Jia Tolentino jettisons into our Hall of Fame, and who knows what else happens.
This month’s near misses included: A Luminous Republic, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, and Sharks in the Time of Saviors. See Also: Last month’s list.
