Half the year has gone by, and fuck, man.
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 June 2021!
| FICTION |
|---|
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller | Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston | Circe by Madeline Miller | One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry | A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon | The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris | Vicious by V.E. Schwab | Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid | The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
| KIDS + TEENS |
|---|
They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera | Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo | We Were Liars by E. Lockhart | Six of Crows by Leigh Bardguo | Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo | Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Dog Man: Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey | Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo | We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
Truly Tyler by Terri Libenson | Karen’s Worst Day (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels #3) by Katy Farina & Ann M. Martin | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi | Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin | All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
| NONFICTION |
|---|
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman | Steve Kerr: A Life by Scott Howard-Cooper | The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner | A Promised Land by Barack Obama | Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans | Sacred Woman by Queen Afua | The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain | The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | Live Free by DeVon Franklin | The Bomber Mafia: : A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell | 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.)
- For the past nine months, 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.
