Matt Hall’s Odds On: The Making of an Evidence-Based Investor continued to lead the pack in May as book buyers loaded up on books ahead of the Memorial Day holiday. Many of you are also interested in starting your own hedge fund as Ted Seides‘ So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators stayed near the top of the list. Interest in If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan surged well.

For more book ideas you can check out our 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 May 2016:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

1. Odds On: The Making of an Evidence-Based Investor by Matt Hall
2. If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
3. So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators by Ted Seides
4. Cumulus: A Novel by Eliot Peper
5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
6. The Continental Affair: The Rise and Fall of the Continental Illinois Bank by James P McCollom
7. The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King
8. Stopping the Noise in Your Head by Reid Wilson
9. The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling by Adam Kucharski
10. What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

1. So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators by Ted Seides
2. If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
3. Odds On: The Making of an Evidence-Based Investor by Matt Hall
4. The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King
5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
6. Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors by Allen Benello, Michael Van Diema and Tobias Carlisle
7. The Continental Affair: The Rise and Fall of the Continental Illinois Bank by James P McCollom
8. Trading on Sentiment: The Power of Minds Over Markets by Richard Peterson
9. The Options Edge: An Intuitive Approach to Generating Consistent Profits for the Novice to the Experienced Practitioner by Michael Kouw
10. Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World’s Greatest Investor by Jeremy Miller

Thanks again to everyone who purchased a copy of my book or any other book (or item) during the month. Keep an eye on this space for more book news.