BOOKS IN HAND • What Customers Bought in February

You ever want to know what people are buying in bookstores? Well, it so happens that I work at one!

During the last week of February, 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 bestsellers—in the past seven days or the past four weeks. And that’s what this post is—seeing the top ten selling books of February.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho |
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones | Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer | Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn | Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman | All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | 1984 by George Orwell | Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle | Dog Man and Cat Kid by Dav Pilkey | Every Day by David Levithan | Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison | Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12) by Jeff Kinney

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli |
Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey | One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus |
Dawn and the Impossible Three (The Baby-Sitter’s Club #5) by Gale Galligan

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff | The Subtle Art of Not Give A F*ck by Mark Manson | You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero | 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson | The Seasoned Life by Ayesha Curry

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish | The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz | The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman | Crushing It! by Gary Vaynerchuk | We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur | Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur |
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell | 2Fish by Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt | The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater | When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele | The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan | Game by Walter Dean Myers

Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement | Buck: A Memoir by M.K. Asante | Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera | Lumberjanes • Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Sharon Watters, & Brooke Allen | Black Panther: World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay and Ta-Nehisi Coates

NOTES:

• Every bookstore’s top-selling books will be different from each other. This list is just for my store.
• It comes to no surprise that some of the top selling books are ones that have been adapted into a movie: Ready Player One, Annihilation, Call Me By Your Name, A Wrinkle in Time, Every Day, The Hate U Give, Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, and Black Panther: World of Wakanda. 
• These books seem to be forever on the top-selling list: The Alchemist, 1984, 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 in March. People love these books.)
• The bulk orders list are books I assume were order for class or book club or work.

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