April was once again dominated by a slew of low-priced Kindle books including Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David.

In April we also conducted two Q&As with authors including one with Michael Covel about the newly revised and expanded version of Trend Following: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets and another with Michael Deyoe author of Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend.

For more book ideas you can check out our latest post compiling our many book links as well as last month’s best-sellers list. We present sales two ways: the first is by unit sales and the second is by revenue which can be notably different. Here are the books (combined print, Kindle* and Audible.com) that Abnormal Returns readers purchased at Amazon during April 2017:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  2. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
  3. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
  4. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burroughs and John Helyar
  5. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
  6. The Battle for Investment Survival by Gerald Loeb
  7. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan
  8. How I Made $2,000,000 In the Stock Market by Nicholas Darvas
  9. The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
  10. Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. Trend Following: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets by Michael Covel
  2. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  3. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
  4. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and David Evans
  5. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burroughs and John Helyar
  6. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
  7. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan
  8. Startup: A Novel by Doree Shafir
  9. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Ed Thorp
  10. The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States by Benjamin C. Waterhouse

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.