Hey 2021, let me go back to 2020 to talk about the books my bookstore sold a lot of in December. K, thanks! 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 December 2020!
| FICTION |
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Home Body by Rupi Kaur | Dune by Frank Herbert | The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline | Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Circe by Madeline Miller | Deadly Cross by James Patterson | There There by Tommy Orange | The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin | Death Note: Black Edition Vol. 1
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell | The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller | A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
Deacon King Kong by James McBride | Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | The Guest List by Lucy Foley | The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison | A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
| KIDS + TEENS |
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The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #15) by Jeff Kinney | Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey | We Were Liars by E. Lockhart | Logan Likes Mary Anne! (The Baby-Sitters Club) by Gale Galligan | I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
Dog Man: Grime and Punishment by Dav Pilkey | Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier | Pete the Cat: Snow Daze by James Dean | The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling | Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
The Dark Secret (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #4) by Tui T. Sutherland | Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds | I Am Enough by Grace Byers | Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry | I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont
The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road by Max Braillier | The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo #5) by Rick Riordan | Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards | Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall | Class Act by Jerry Craft
| NONFICTION |
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A Promised Land by Barack Obama | World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson | The Full Plate by Ayesha Curry | Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz | Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | Untamed by Glennon Doyle | The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Macksey | Bag Man by Rachel Maddow
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld | Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey | The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris | Sapiens: A Graphic History Volume 1 by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, & Daniel Casanave
The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars | Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten | Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari | The Best of Me by David Sedaris | The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
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.)
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