Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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)

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