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 July 2019.
| FICTION |
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | There There by Tommy Orange | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead | 1984 by George Orwell
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert | Dune by Frank Herbert | Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman | The Adventure Zone: Murder on Rockport Limited by The McElroys
The New Girl by Daniel Silva | Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng | The Reckoning by John Grisham | Ghosted by Rosie Walsh | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
| KIDS/TEENS |
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Dear Martin by Nic Stone | Camp by Kayla Miller | Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowly Jefferson’s Journal by Jeff Kinney | The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! by Mo Willems | Just Jaime by Terri Libenson
Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson | Dog Man and Cat Kid by Dav Pilkey | PopularMMOs Presents Enter the Mine | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling | Click by Kayla Miller
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Gravity Falls: Journal 3 | I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez | The Story of Rap | Smile by Raina Telgemeier
| NONFICTION |
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The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala | Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez | The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson | The Odd 1s Out by James Rallison | Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Mueller Report | Born A Crime by Trevor Noah | Educated by Tara Westover | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari | Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth | Three Women by Lisa Taddeo | Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
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.
Such a cool post!! I love that 1984 is still selling a lot of copies nowadays–I think it’s really telling of people’s fears and outlooks on our society today.