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BOOKS IN HAND • What Customers Are Buying in July 2023

August 4, 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 July 2023!

FICTION

Twisted Love by Ana Huang | Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood | A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas |  Icebreaker by Hannah Grace | No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean | Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica | This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

 The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo | The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood | King of Wrath by Ana Huang | It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Twisted Games by Ana Huang | Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa | Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree | The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

TEENS

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han | If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter | The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide | Nimona by ND Stevenson | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi | It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han | We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber | Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | Caraval by Stephanie Garber | The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

KIDS

Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang | Karen’s Haircut (Baby-Sitters Little Sister) by Katy Farina | Hooky Vol. 1 by Miriam Bonastre Tur | The Bad Guys in Let the Games Begin! by Aaron Blabey

Smile by Raina Telgemeier | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling | The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate | Hooky Volume 2 by Miriam Bonastre Tur | Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids by Rob Elliott

Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends by Nicole Andelfinger & Claudia Aguirre | Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega & Rose Bousamra | Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter | Linked by Gordon Korman | The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book by Jeff Kinney

NONFICTION

Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by BTS | All About Love by bell hooks | The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Atomic Habits by James Clear | The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel | How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson | The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida | Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins | Shoe Dog by Phil Knight | Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

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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