2018 Bestsellers!

Yeah this is late! Whatever! Here are our bestselling books in 2018. (Note #7 is our very own bookseller Mark DeCarteret! Go Mark!)

Top 10

Locked In: The Will to Survive and the Resolve to Live by Victoria Arlen

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien

The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals by Aaron Mahnke

Origin by Dan Brown 

For Lack of a Calling: Poems by Mark DeCarteret

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

The World of Lore: Dreadful Places by Aaron Mahnke

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

Children’s/YA

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Olympians: Hermes: Tales of the Trickster by George O'Connor

The Last Gargoyle by Paul Durham

The Splintered Light by Ginger Johnson

Dog Man #5: Lord of the Fleas by Dav Pilkey

The Principal Strikes Back (Jedi Academy) by Jarrett Krosozcka

The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) by Jeff Kinney

The Snowy Nap by Jan Brett

Too Much! Not Enough! by Gina Perry

Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker

Nonfiction

Locked In: The Will to Survive and the Resolve to Live by Victoria Arlen

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien

The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals by Aaron Mahnke

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

The World of Lore: Dreadful Places by Aaron Mahnke
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Ciao Italia: My Lifelong Food Adventures in Italy by Mary Ann Esposito

Small Town, Big Oil: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World--And Won by David Moore

Fiction

Origin by Dan Brown

For Lack of a Calling: Poems by Mark DeCarteret

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Top 10 “Backlist” Staff Picks 

Books published before 2018 that are staff picks at Water Street..though many also happen to be national/regional bestsellers. The bookseller(s) who recommend(s) it is in parentheses after the title.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Alice and Stef)

Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Stef and Dan)

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Jill)

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Alice and Stef)

News of the World by Paulette Jiles (Stef)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Stef and Alice)

Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (Cynthia)

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (Mark and Stef)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Stef)

Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Alice)