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 February.
| This Month | Last Month | Title | On List | |
| 1. | 1. |  |
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain | 2 months |
| 2. | 2. |  |
White Ivy | 4 months |
| 3. | – |  |
Fake Accounts | 1 month |
| 4. | 5. |  |
The Silence | 5 months |
| 5. | 3. |  |
Dune: Book 1 | 4 months |
| 6. | 8. |  |
Detransition, Baby |
2 months |
| 7. | 6. |  |
What Are You Going Through | 5 months |
| 8. | 9. |  |
The Copenhagen Trilogy | 2 months |
| 9. | – |  |
No One Is Talking About This | 1 month |
| 10. | 7. |  |
Cuyahoga | 5 months |
“We suddenly have two novels, released within a week of each other, that brazenly, with swagger and open ambition, take on the voice of the bird app [Twitter], and thus of our scrambled times,” wrote Michael Lindgren in his piece last week on new novels from Patricia Lockwood and Lauren Oyler. “Due to the caprices of the publishing schedule, [both are now] permanently frozen in a lit-world pas de deux for all eternity.”
Both are now members of our Top Ten as well.
The third spot on this month’s list belongs to Oyler’s Fake Accounts, while Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This holds ninth position. (In Lindgren’s review, he’d have swapped the order.)
Their entrée onto our list was made possible by the ascension of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half to our site’s Hall of Fame, as well as another book dropping out from last month’s list. Meanwhile, the eight other books from January’s rankings alternated position, but mostly remained where they were. (Dune dropped a few slots, perhaps because at 704 pages, it simply weighs too much.)
Looking ahead, we expect significant changes to our list in May and June, as fully half of the books listed this month have been listed for four or five months apiece. That means five spots are on track to open up right as we enter what could be the most anticipated summer in North American history. You might think a populace emerging from a year of plague-based precautions would favor friskier activities than reading—but then again a generational cicada swarm may make the outdoors less appealing. In that case we’ll all be indoors again—reading, reading, reading, vaccinated and free.
This month’s near misses included: Outlawed, Vesper Flights, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and Life Among the Terranauts. See Also: Last month’s list.
