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 selling books of November 2023!
| FICTION |
|---|
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros | Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros | Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcettt | The Body by Stephen King | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Babel by R.F. Kuang | Icebreaker by Hannah Grace | Twisted Love by Ana Huang | A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara | A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree | One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig | Bliss Montage by Ling Ma | All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang | Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig | Addicted to You by Krista & Becca Ritchie | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
| TEENS |
|---|
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | The Do-Over by Lynn Painter | Nightbane by Alex Aster
Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor | Eragon by Christopher Paolini | What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez | A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber | Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Caraval by Stephanie Garber | Murtagh by Christoper Paolini | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi | The Cruel Prince: Collector’s Edition by Holly Black | If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin
| KIDS |
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No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) by Jeff Kinney | Pete the Cat: Snow Daze by James Dean & Kimberly Dean | The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #6) by Rick Riordan | Where’s Spot by Eric Hill | The Bad Guys in Look Who’s Talking by Aaron Blabey
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh! by Mo Willems | Stacey’s Mistake (The Baby-Sitters Club) by Ellen T. Crenshaw & Ann M. Martin | Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang | Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andrae & Guy Parker-Rees | Hooky Vol. 1 by Miriam Bonastre Tur
Coraline by Neil Gaiman | The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket | The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill | Keeper of the Lost Cities: The Graphic Novel Part 1 by Shannon Messenger and Celina Frenn | The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
| NONFICTION |
|---|
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears |
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger | Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner | Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson | The Creative Act by Rick Rubin | My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel | All About Love by bell hooks | The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
NOTES:
- Every bookstore’s top-selling books will be different from each other. This list is just for my store.
- These books seem to be forever on the top-selling list: The Alchemist, anything Dog Man or Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, You Are A Badass, The Four Agreements, the 5 Love Languages, and Milk and Honey. (Don’t be surprise if you see these books here or in future “Books in Hand” posts. People love these books.)
- For the past year, we’ve been selling a lot of manga—so much that it exceeds the different subjects of books we sell. That will be in its own post.
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