BOOKS IN HAND • What Customers Bought in July 2018

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 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 May. Let’s take a look.

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton & James Patterson | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan | 1984 by George Orwell

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan | The Outsider by Stephen King | All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | There There by Tommy Orange | Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Spymaster (Scot Harvath #17) by Brad Thor | Less by Andrew Sean Greer | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Brief Cases (Dresden Files series) by Jim Butcher | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson | PopularMMOs Presents A Hole New World by PopularMMOs | Positively Izzy  by Terri Libenson | Dog Man and Cat Kid by Dav Pilkey

The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book by Jeff Kinney | One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus | The Lost Continent (Wings of Fire #11) by Tui T. Sutherland | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli | Sisters by Raina Telgemeir

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling | Llama Llama Loves To Read by Anna Dewdney | Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Subtle Art of Not Give A F*ck by Mark Manson | Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in LA by Luis J. Rodriguez | You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero | Made Whole by Cristina Curp | 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz | Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Calypso by David Sedaris | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari | The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry | Shoe Dog: A Memoir of the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight

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.

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