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BOOKS IN HAND • What Customers Are Buying in April 2023

May 5, 2023 Leave a Comment

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 April 2023!

FICTION

 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | Twisted Games by Ana Huang | Icebreaker by Hannah Grace | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires) by Lauren Asher | A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers | Happy Place by Emily Henry | It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover | The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid | A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas | Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas | Bunny by Mona Awad | No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong | Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin | The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

TEENS

If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | Spellbound by F.T. Lukens

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo | Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber | Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi | Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter

 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black | The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus | Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman

KIDS

Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea by Dav Pilkey | Hooky by Miriam Bonastre Tur | Pokemon: Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook | The Mermaid Princesses by by Maya Cameron-Gordon | Hooky Vol. 2 by Miriam Bonastre Tur

Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathman | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling | Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joose | Diper Overlode (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #17) by Jeff Kinney | Knight Owl by Christopher Denise

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems | Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones | Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns by Duncan Tonatiuh | Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss | We Are Love by Patricia Hegarty

NONFICTION

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | Atomic Habits by James Clear | All About Love by bell hooks

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel | How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin | The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk | The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine | You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero | Born A Crime by Trevor Noah | The Power of Now of Eckhart Tolle | Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

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.
Were there any surprises? What did you think would be a top-selling book? What books from this list have you read? 

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