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 May 2022!
| FICTION |
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It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | Book Lovers by Emily Henry | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas | By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Circe by Madeline Miller | A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover | Verity by Colleen Hoover | No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong | The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
| KIDS + TEENS |
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Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman | Heartstopper Vol. 2 by Alice Oseman | All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue | Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose (Cat Kid Comic Club #3) by Dav Pilkey | The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Hooky by Miriam Bonastre Tur | Family of Liars by E. Lockhart | The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen | The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag | The Bad Guys Book 1 by Aaron Blabey
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | The Cruel Prince by Holly Black | The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim | Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau | Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
| NONFICTION |
|---|
Finding Me by Viola Davis | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | All About Love by bell hooks | Atomic Habits by James Clear | To Selena, With Love by Chris Perez
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine | Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose by Sonya Curry | Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong | Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones | The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs | The New 14-Day New Keto Cleanse by JJ Smith | The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason | Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
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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