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 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 ten selling books of February 2019.
| FICTION |
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James | China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan | The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris | Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
There There by Tommy Orange | Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | Pachinko by Min Jin Lee | My Hero Academia Vol. 17 | The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness | An American Marriage by Tayari Jones | 1984 by George Orwell | After by Anna Todd | The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
| KIDS + TEENS |
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Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey | On the Come Up by Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Drama by Raina Telgemeier | Dog Man and Cat Kid by Dav Pilkey
The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #13) by Jeff Kinney | Hilo: Book 5: Then Everything Went Wrong by Judd Winick | Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman by Dav Pilkey | Kristy’s Big Day (The Babysitter’s Club Graphic Novels #6) by Ann M. Martin and Gale Galligan | Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas by Dav Pilkey
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo | Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers | Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties by Dav Pilkey | Gravity Falls: Journal 3 | The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
| NONFICTION |
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Becoming by Michelle Obama | The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson | Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez | Born A Crime by Trevor Noah | You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero | The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Educated by Tara Westover | 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman | Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Truth About Men by DeVon Franklin | Calm the F*ck Down by Sarah Knight | The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris | 31-Day Food Revolution by Ocean Robbins | Zen As F*ck by Alyssa Nichols
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.)
- I omitted the poetry list because it didn’t change from February, so it was The Sun and Her Flowers, Pillow Thoughts, Milk and Honey, and 2Fish.
My library has been scanning a ton of copies of and places holds for Where the Crawdads Sing the past few weeks. I’m not surprised about Marie Kondo’s book being there with the show being out, we’ve had a lot of traffic for that one too.
I’m super excited to get to Black Leopard, Red Wolf at some point. I’ve heard some mixed things about it, so I’m curious to see where I’ll fall on that spectrum.