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 July.
| This Month | Last Month | Title | On List | |
| 1. | 1. |  |
The Glass Hotel | 5 months |
| 2. | 2. |  |
The City We Became | 5 months |
| 3. | 6. |  |
Tell It Slant | 3 months |
| 4. | 4. |  |
Interior Chinatown |
6 months |
| 5. | 9. |  |
Death in Her Hands | 2 months |
| 6. | 10. |  |
Sharks in the Time of Saviors |
2 months |
| 7. | 5. |  |
The Resisters | 6 months |
| 8. | – |  |
Utopia Avenue | 1 month |
| 9. | 7. |  |
All My Mother’s Lovers | 3 months |
| 10. | – |  |
How to Be an Antiracist | 1 month |
Well, well, well. If it isn’t Millions readers taking my advice. Last month, I ended the write-up by highlighting Kawai Strong Washburn’s novel about a Hawaiian family (and so much more), and this month the book shoots up four spots in our list. For those of you still on the fence, here’s another Sharks in the Time of Saviors teaser: its opening chapter—part sex scene, part ghost processional—is still the strongest opener I’ve read in 2020.
The other news this month is that Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier capped off six consecutive months on our list by setting off for the site’s Hall of Fame. In an interview last summer, our own Bill Morris asked Barry about his creative inspirations, and also why he describe a barkeep as “stoned-looking as a fucking koala” in an earlier book. Anyway, the paperback edition of Night Boat released a couple weeks ago.
Night Boat’s move to the Hall of Fame freed up one spot on the list, while Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light dropped out of the running this month, so there were two new spots to fill. Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist took one of them, after spending some time in the “near misses” section of these posts.
Meanwhile, the eighth spot on the list belongs to David Mitchell, whose new novel, Utopia Avenue, came out last month. Mitchell has long been a Millions audience favorite, having made the Hall of Fame four times since 2010—so if past is prologue we’ll be seeing his name in these posts for five months to come.
This month’s near misses included: A Luminous Republic, Fleishman Is in Trouble, Disappearing Earth, and The Lost Book of Adana Moreau. See Also: Last month’s list.
