atlasobscura_1216Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton jumped to the top of our bestseller list this month as readers stocked up for the holidays. On the investment front Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today by Andrew Berkin and Larry Swedroe jumped onto the list and hockey fans came out to support 99: Stories of the Game by Wayne Gretzky.

For more book ideas you can check out our latest post compiling our many book links as well as last month’s best-selling list. We present sales two ways: the first is by unit sales and the second way is by revenue which can be notably different. Here are the books (combined print and Kindle* that Abnormal Returns readers purchased at Amazon during November 2016:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
  2. Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building a Momentum-Based Stock Selection System by Wes Gray and Jack Vogel
  3. Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today by Andrew Berkin and Larry Swedroe
  4. 99: Stories of the Game by Wayne Gretzky and Kirstie McLellan Day
  5. Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely
  6. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  7. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
  8. Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy by Bradley Birkenfeld
  9. How to Make Money with Global Macro by Javier Gonzalez
  10. Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal by Erik Vance

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
  2. Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building a Momentum-Based Stock Selection System by Wes Gray and Jack Vogel
  3. How to Make Money with Global Macro by Javier Gonzalez
  4. Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today by Andrew Berkin and Larry Swedroe
  5. 99: Stories of the Game by Wayne Gretzky and Kirstie McLellan Day
  6. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  7. Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely
  8. Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy by Bradley Birkenfeld
  9. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
  10. The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby

Thanks again to everyone who purchased a copy of my book or any other book (or item) during the month. Mid-month look for our monthly post summing up all of our book-related links as well.

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