You ever want to know what people are buying in bookstores? Well, it so happens that I work at one!

During the last week of February 2018, I pondered about what type of post to make for “Books in Hand.” At first, I planned to discuss all the books customers came in asking for or buying, but that’s a bit too much because everybody came in asking for different books, and I didn’t remember all of them. My boss showed me a way to check our store’s best selling books, and I found out what we sold a lot of!

And that’s what this post is—seeing the top ten selling books of January 2019. It’s a brand new year. Are there any brand new books on this list?

There There by Tommy Orange | The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris | Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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