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 March 2024!
| FICTION |
|---|
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride | A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Bride by Ali Hazelwood | The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu | A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas | Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert | Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros | Hooked by Emily McIntire | A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas | The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas | Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. | Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas | Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas | Twisted Love by Ana Huang | Twisted Games by Ana Huang
| TEENS |
|---|
If Only I Had Told Her by Laura Nowlin | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black | Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter | Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross | Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross | Caraval by Stephanie Garber | The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe | The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Lightlark by Alex Aster | Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh | If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie
| KIDS |
|---|
Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder by Dav Pilkey | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling | Hilo: Rise of the Cat by Judd Winick | Waverider (Amulet #9) by Kazu Kibuishi | Big Nate: This Means War! by Lincoln Peirce
Bluey: 5-Minute Stories | Choosing Sides (Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley Twins: The Graphic Novel) by Nicole Andelfinger and Claudia Aguirre | The Bad Seed by Jory John | Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams | The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney | The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4) by Rick Riordan | Evil Spy School: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs | Odder by Katherine Applegate | The Hidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire: The Graphic Novel #3) by Tui T. Sutherland
| NONFICTION |
|---|
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann | The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | Atomic Habits by James Clear | The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson | The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton | The Creative Act by Rick Rubin | Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson | How To Know A Person by David Brooks
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel | Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Let That Sh*t Go by Nina Purewal and Kate Petriw | Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich | Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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.
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