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

January 3, 2023 Leave a Comment

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

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

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

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

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