May was once again dominated by a slew of low-priced Kindle books including University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting by Daniel Pecaut and Corey Wrenn and SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. In May we also took a look at some lessons learned from Sam Zell’s new memoir Am I Being Too Subtle?

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 May 2017:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting by Daniel Pecaut and Corey Wrenn
  2. Trend Following: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets by Michael Covel
  3. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  4. Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew Lo
  5. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  6. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
  7. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
  8. The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance Pseudo Science and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets by Paul Wilmott and David Orrell
  9. Cumulus (A Novel) by Eliot Peper
  10. How I Made $2,000,000 In the Stock Market by Nicholas Darvas

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. Trend Following: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets by Michael Covel
  2. Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew Lo
  3. University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting by Daniel Pecaut and Corey Wrenn
  4. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
  5. The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance Pseudo Science and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets by Paul Wilmott and David Orrell
  6. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  7. The End of Theory: Financial Crises the Failure of Economics and the Sweep of Human Interaction by Richard Bookstaber
  8. Am I Being Too Subtle? by Sam Zell
  9. Everybody Lies: Big Data New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  10. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth Innovation Sustainability and the Pace of Life in Organisms Cities Economies and Companies by Geoffrey West

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.