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 July 2023!
| FICTION |
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Twisted Love by Ana Huang | Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood | A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Icebreaker by Hannah Grace | No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean | Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica | This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo | The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood | King of Wrath by Ana Huang | It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Twisted Games by Ana Huang | Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa | Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree | The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
| TEENS |
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han | If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter | The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide | Nimona by ND Stevenson | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi | It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han | We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber | Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | Caraval by Stephanie Garber | The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
| KIDS |
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Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang | Karen’s Haircut (Baby-Sitters Little Sister) by Katy Farina | Hooky Vol. 1 by Miriam Bonastre Tur | The Bad Guys in Let the Games Begin! by Aaron Blabey
Smile by Raina Telgemeier | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling | The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate | Hooky Volume 2 by Miriam Bonastre Tur | Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids by Rob Elliott
Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends by Nicole Andelfinger & Claudia Aguirre | Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega & Rose Bousamra | Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter | Linked by Gordon Korman | The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book by Jeff Kinney
| NONFICTION |
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Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by BTS | All About Love by bell hooks | The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Atomic Habits by James Clear | The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel | How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson | The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida | Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins | Shoe Dog by Phil Knight | Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
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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