By looking at our Amazon stats, we can see what books Millions readers have been buying, and we use those numbers to find out what books have been most popular with our readers in original months. Once a book has been on the list for six months it graduates to our celebrated Hall of Fame. The books you see here are the all-time favorites of Millions readers (a very noted bunch).
July 2009
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by Roberto Bolaño (at The Millions)
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy (at The Millions)
August 2009
Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
by Kitty Burns Florey (at The Millions)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (at The Millions)
September 2009
The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
by Matthew Diffee (at The Millions)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (at The Millions)
Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson (at The Millions)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (at The Millions)
January 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson (at The Millions)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (at The Millions)
March 2010
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (at The Millions)
April 2010
Austerlitz by WG. Sebald (at The Millions)
May 2010
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (at The Millions)
June 2010
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy (at The Millions)
The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier (at The Millions)
Let the much World Spin by Colum McCann (at The Millions)
The Interrogative Mood? by Padgett Powell (at The Millions)
July 2010
Stoner
by John Williams (at The Millions)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (at The Millions)
August 2010
Reality Hunger by David Shields (at The Millions)
September 2010
The Big Short by Michael Lewis (at The Millions)
November 2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding (at The Millions)
December 2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell (at The Millions)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson (at The Millions)
January 2011
The Passage
by Justin Cronin (at The Millions)
Faithful Place by Tana French (at The Millions)
February 2011
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart (at The Millions)
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (at The Millions)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (at The Millions, more at The Millions)
March 2011
Room by Emma Donoghue (at The Millions)
June 2011
Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand (at The Millions)
Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky (at The Millions)
July 2011
The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman (at The Millions)
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (at The Millions)
August 2011
The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books edited by C. Max Magee and Jeff Martin (at The Millions)
September 2011
The Pale King
by David Foster Wallace (at The Millions)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (at The Millions)
October 2011
Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth (at The Millions)
October 2011
The Enemy
by Christopher Hitchens
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (at The Millions)
February 2012
The Bathtub Spy by Tom Rachman
March 2012
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life by Ann Patchett
April 2012
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
June 2012
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde
August 2012
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
October 2012
How to Sharpen Pencils
by David Rees
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
November 2012
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
December 2012
A Naked Singularity
by Sergio De La Pava
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
February 2013
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Every Love epic Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by DT. Max
March 2013
This is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
NW by Zadie Smith
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
April 2013
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
May 2013
An Arrangement of Light by Nicole Krauss
July 2013
Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever
by Mark O’Connell
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Building Stories by Chris Ware
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
September 2013
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
November 2013
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
December 2013
Taipei by Tao Lin
January 2014
The Pioneer Detectives
by Konstantin Kakaes
Fox 8 by George Saunders
March 2014
The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
April 2014
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Selected Stories by Alice Munro
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed by Paper Monument and n+1
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
May 2014
The Circle by Dave Eggers
June 2014
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
September 2014
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
November 2014
A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World
by Rachel Cantor
Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines by Samantha Hahn
January 2015
Reading Like a Writer
by Francine Prose
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
March 2015
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
April 2015
The Novel: A Biography
by Michael Schmidt
Station Eleven byEmily St. John Mandel
The Narrow Road to the Deep North byRichard Flanagan
May 2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
June 2015
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
July 2015
Loitering: New and Collected Essays
by Charles D’Ambrosio
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
September 2015
The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
October 2015
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
December 2015
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
January 2016
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A minute Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
February 2016
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
March 2016
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Middle Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
April 2016
Slade House
by David Mitchell
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
May 2016
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
June 2016
Fortune Smiles
by Adam Johnson
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
July 2016
What Belongs to You
by Garth Greenwell
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
August 2016
The Past by Tessa Hadley
September 2016
Girl Through Glass
by Sari Wilson
The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
October 2016
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
November 2016
Zero K by Don DeLillo
December 2016
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
January 2017
Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
February 2017
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
March 2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
April 2017
The Trespasser
by Tana French
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
May 2017
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
June 2017
Norwegian by Night
by Derek B. Miller
The North Water by Ian McGuire
July 2017
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
August 2017
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin
September 2017
Ill Will
by Dan Chaon
American War by Omar El Akkad
October 2017
Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami
December 2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
February 2018
The Seventh Function of Language
by Laurent Binet
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
April 2018
Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
May 2018
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
June 2018
5-Year Diary
by Tamara Shopsin
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
July 2018
Fire Sermon
by Jamie Quatro
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
August 2018
The Immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
September 2018
Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Ahmed Saadawi
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
November 2018
Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
Lost Empress by Sergio De La Pava
December 2018
The Overstory by Richard Powers
January 2019
There There
by Tommy Orange
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
February 2019
The Incendiaries by RO. Kwon
March 2019
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
April 2019
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
May 2019
Severance
by Ling Ma
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
June 2019
The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
The William H. Gass Reader by William H. Gass
July 2019
Milkman
by Anna Burns
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
August 2019
The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
edited by Kim Adrian
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
November 2019
The Practicing Stoic
by Ward Farnsworth
The New Me by Halle Butler
Normal People by Sally Rooney
January 2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
February 2020
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Inland by Téa Obreht
March 2020
Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert Lennon
April 2020
The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
May 2020
The Hotel Neversink by Adam O’Fallon Price
June 2020
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
July 2020
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
August 2020
The Resisters
by Gish Jen
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
September 2020
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
November 2020
Tell it Slant by Brenda Miller (ed.)
December 2020
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
by Kawai Strong Washburn
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
January 2021
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
February 2021
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
March 2021
What You Are Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
April 2021
The Silence by Don DeLillo
May 2021
White Ivy
by Susie Yang
Dune by Frank Herbert
Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty
June 2021
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by George Saunders
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
July 2021
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
September 2021
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
October 2021
Subdivision by J. Robert Lennon
December 2021
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
January 2022
The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O’Donnell
March 2022
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
April 2022
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
May 2022
These Precious Days: Essays
by Ann Patchett
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
June 2022
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård
July 2022
Ulysses: An Illustrated Edition
by James Joyce and Eduardo Arroyo (illustrator)
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
August 2022
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook by Ward Farnsworth
October 2022
How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell
November 2022
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
