quantmomentum_1116October was a tight race. However Wes Gray and Jack Vogel’s Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building a Momentum-Based Stock Selection System bested Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini. In addition our Q&A with Tim Harford generated robust interest in Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives.

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 October 2016:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building a Momentum-Based Stock Selection System by Wes Gray and Jack Vogel
  2. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  3. Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford
  4. Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
  5. How to Make Money with Global Macro by Javier Gonzalez
  6. How to Think About Money by Jonathan Clements
  7. So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators by Ted Seides
  8. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  9. The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to be Smart About Money by Carl Richards
  10. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building a Momentum-Based Stock Selection System by Wes Gray and Jack Vogel
  2. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  3. Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford
  4. Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
  5. So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators by Ted Seides
  6. How to Make Money with Global Macro by Javier Gonzalez
  7. All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going To Die So I’ll Never Go There: Buffett & Munger – A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon Common Sense by Peter Bevelin
  8. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  9. How to Think About Money by Jonathan Clements
  10. The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to be Smart About Money by Carl Richards

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.