Hall of Fame
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 recent months. Once a book has been on the list for six months it graduates to our illustrious Hall of Fame. The books you see here are the all-time favorites of Millions readers (a very distinguished bunch).
July 2009
2666 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 W.G. 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 Great 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 Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. 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
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