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 December 2022!
| FICTION |
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Babel by R.F. Kuang | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi | It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
The Appeal by Janice Hallett | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver | The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | Babel by R.F. Kuang
Twisted Love by Ana Huang | The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | The Stranger by Albert Camus | A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | The Fine Print by Lauren Asher
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang | Kindred by Octavia Butler | Verity by Colleen Hoover | Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr | Twisted Games by Ana Huang
The Fall of Numenor by J.R.R. Tolkien | We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson | The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham | Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley | Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
| TEENS + KIDS |
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Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera | The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera | Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter | If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak | The Way I Used To Be by Amber Smith
Heartstopper Vol. 3 by Alice Oseman | Heartstopper Vol. 2 by Alice Oseman | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi | Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow | Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations by Dav Pilkey | Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman | Moon Rising (Wings of Fire: The Graphic Novel) by Tui T. Sutherland | Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Long and Max Long | Pokemon: Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook
Diper Overlode (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #17) by Jeff Kinney | Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities #9) by Shannon Messenger | The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1) by Rick Riordan | Where’s Spot? by Eric Hill | Hooky Volume 1 by Miriam Bonastre Tur
Mary Anne’s Bad Luck Mystery (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel) by Ann M. Martin & Cynthia Yuan Cheng | Amari and the Great Game by B.B. Alston | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss | Bluey Hooray It’s Christmas!: A Sticker Activity Book | The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
| NONFICTION |
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The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy | All About Love by bell hooks | Atomic Habits by James Clear
From Crook to Cook by Snoop Dogg | An Immense World by Ed Yong | Surrender: 40 Songs, Our Story by Bono | Go-to Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten | The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
One Piece: Pirate Recipes | Half Baked Harvest Super Simple by Tieghan Gerard | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari | And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham | You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg | Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen by Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, Lester Walker | Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz
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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