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BOOKS IN HAND • What Customers Are Buying in May 2023

June 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 May 2023!

FICTION

 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Icebreaker by Hannah Grace | Happy Place by Emily Henry | This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar | Twisted Games by Ana Huang

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley | Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang | Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica | Neon Gods by Katee Robert | Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune | It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover |

TEENS

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson | Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin | As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow | | Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman | Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson | The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han | Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin | One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus | Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman | Heartstopper Vol. 4 by Alice Oseman

KIDS

The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro | Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea by Dav Pilkey | The Stonekeeper (Amulet #1) by Kazu Kibuishi | Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey | Are We There Yet? by Dan Sanat

Gravity Falls: Journal 3 | The Mermaid Princesses by by Maya Cameron-Gordon | Corduroy by Don Freeman | Pokemon Pocket Comics: Sun & Moon | The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel) by Tui T. Sutherland

Where’s Spot? by Eric Hill | Gabby’s Dollhouse: Meet the Kittycorn \ The Wild Robot by Peter Brown | Katie the Catsitter: Secrets and Sidekicks by Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue | Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children’s Story by Norma Olizon-Chikiamco & Mark Ramsel N. Salvatus III

NONFICTION

 

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner | All About Love by bell hooks | The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin | Atomic Habits by James Clear | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki

 

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey | The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama | How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

 

The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson | The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann | There Are Moms Way Worse Than You by Glenn Boozan | The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

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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