There have been nights in my life when, in an effort to fall asleep without turning the light back on to read, I have relied not on counting sheep but on reciting silently to myself the regular starting lineups of each team in the American League for the 1961 season. It always worked, and I would usually doze off around the time I made my way around the nifty Indians infield of Vic Power, Johnny Temple, Woody Held and Bubba Phillips. I’ve always been a baseball guy, and like a lot of other fans I found that my memory works best for the first season that I paid attention to baseball, and that was ’61, a pretty cool year to become a fan. 

But I’m also a book guy, and things like bestseller lists can be as compelling for book people as batting averages and other stats are for baseball fans. So, just for fun and in case you want to any backfilling of your reading or drill down on the bestseller lists from the first 30 months of the Kindle Revolution, here they are. Click on any of these links to see the 100 bestselling titles in the Kindle Store for that month. I’m pretty sure that the Kindle Store has not gone out of stock on any of these, although the prices for some may have changed and the prices shown on these lists are, of course, the current prices for each book:

• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for November 2007: Follett, Colbert, Patterson. Baldacci, and Steve Martin
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for December 2007: Follett, Grafton, Martin, Patterson, and Baldacci
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for January 2008: Windwalker, Follett, King, Hosseini, and Grafton
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for February 2008: Windwalker, Patterson, Tolle, Follett, and King
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for March 2008: Windwalker, Tolle, Patterson, Follett, and Picoult
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for April 2008: Windwalker, Pausch, Baldacci, Jellerman, and Coben
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for May 2008: Windwalker, Walters, Baldacci, Pausch, and Sanford
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for June 2008: Windwalker, Sedaris, McClellan, Patterson, and Child
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for July 2008: Brad Thor, Windwalker, William P. Young, Jane Green, and David Wroblewski
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for August 2008: Christopher Moore, Stephenie Meyer, Daniel Silva, Pausch, and Windwalker
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for September 2008: Gerritsen, Wroblewski, Friedman, Woodward, and Paolini
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for October 2008: M.J. Rose, Windwalker, Wroblewski, Michael Connelly, and Young
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for November 2008: Meyer, Wroblewski, Baldacci, Patterson, and Young
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for December 2008: Cornwell, Charlie Huston, Laurie Notaro, David Liss, and Meyer
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for January 2009: Huston, Cornwell, Emberson, Meyer, and Young
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for February 2009: King, Cook’s Illustrated, Patterson, Deanna Raybourn, and Crossway Bibles
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for March 2009: Robin Hobb, Naomi Novik, Kim Stanley Robinson, Crossway, T.A. Pratt
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for April 2009: Child, Cook’s, Hobb, Steinhardt, and Coben
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for May 2009: Lara Adrian, Jack Kilborn, Cook’s, D.J. MacHale, Baldacci
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for June 2009: Kilborn, Connelly, Sharon Cullen, Adrian, Jane Austen
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for July 2009: Joseph Finder, Chris Anderson, Karen Moning, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rachel Vincent
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for August 2009: Patterson, Finder, Greg Keyes, Pat Conroy, and Michael Walsh
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for September 2009: Dan Brown, Keri Arthur, China Mieville, Benjamin Franklin, and John Lutz
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for October 2009: Brown, Melody Carlson, Shannon Stacey, Steve Berry, Lauren Dane
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for November 2009: Randy Singer, Don Brown, Jennifer Valent, Stephen James, and Laurell Hamilton
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for December 2009: Noel Hynd, Tom Pawlik, Beth Hensperger, Doyle, and Deborah Smith
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for January 2010: Brandilyn Collins, Terri Blackstock, Smith, Steinhardt, and Doyle
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for February 2010: Julie Klassen, Lisa Wingate, Mary DeMuth, Laura Walker, and Nicholas Sparks
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for March 2010: Andrew Gross, Mark Nykanen, Deanne Gist, Kim Harrison, and Misty Evans
• Bestsellers in Kindle Books for April 2010: Gross, James L. Rubart, Kathryn Cushman, Allie Boniface, and Melissa Marr