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BOOKS IN HAND • What Books Customers Are Buying in May 2022

June 3, 2022 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 May 2022!

FICTION

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | Book Lovers by Emily Henry | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas | By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

Circe by Madeline Miller | A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover | Verity by Colleen Hoover | No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong | The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

KIDS + TEENS

Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman | Heartstopper Vol. 2 by Alice Oseman | All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue | Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose (Cat Kid Comic Club #3) by Dav Pilkey | The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Hooky by Miriam Bonastre Tur | Family of Liars by E. Lockhart | The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen | The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag | The Bad Guys Book 1 by Aaron Blabey

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | The Cruel Prince by Holly Black | The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim | Bloom by Kevin Panetta & Savanna Ganucheau | Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

NONFICTION

Finding Me by Viola Davis | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | All About Love by bell hooks | Atomic Habits by James Clear | To Selena, With Love by Chris Perez

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine | Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose by Sonya Curry | Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong | Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones | The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs | The New 14-Day New Keto Cleanse by JJ Smith | The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason | Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

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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