BOOKS IN HAND • What Books Customers Are Buying in November 2022

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 2022!

It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Verity by Colleen Hoover | Babel by R.F. Kuang

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers | Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi | Twisted Love by Ana Huang

1984 by George Orwell | House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas | Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren | Addicted to You by Krista & Becca Ritchie

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica | The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang | The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera | If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera | The Way I Used To Be by Amber Smith

Heartstopper Vol. 3 by Alice Oseman | The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson | Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow | Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber | Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson | Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau | The Wicked King by Holly Black | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

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 | Corduroy by Don Freeman | Enemies by Svetlana Chmakova

Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Long and Max Long | Knight Owl by Christopher Denise | Hooky Volume 1 by Miriam Bonastre Tur | Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd | The Bad Guys in the Others?! by Aaron Blabey

Into the Wild (Warriors #1) by Erin Hunter | Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand | Pokemon: Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook | Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss | Bluey Hooray It’s Christmas!: A Sticker Activity Book

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama | I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk | Go-to Dinners:A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

All About Love by bell hooks | Atomic Habits by James Clear | The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | 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

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey | It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn | How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill | Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

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?