Our Top Sellers of 2019: Local Heroes
/One of the most fun things we’ve done since opening Skylark has been learning our customers’ tastes and interests, and catering to them. When we meet with sales reps from the major publishing companies, we usually know right away whether a particular title will work in the shop - because we know our customers so well. It’s a frequent refrain in this industry that every bookstore is unique, and it’s true.
We present, as evidence, our list of our bestselling titles for 2019. We’re willing to bet that no other list from any other bookshop in the country looks anything like this. Three of the titles are by Jill Orr, Laura McHugh, and Deborah Zemke, beloved local authors who launched their latest novels at Skylark, and three are by speakers at last year’s Unbound Book Festival - George Saunders, Jacqueline Woodson, and Garrard Conley. Three more - Wright Thompson, Emily Wilson, and (in absentia) Jeff Kinney - did events at the shop during the year. The other titles are there because we loved them so much and couldn’t stop talking about them. Which, you know, is kind of the point. We’re proud of this quirky, idiosyncratic list of fabulous books!
The Ugly Truth by Jill Orr
The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Field Guide to Dumb Birds by Matt Kracht
The Cost of these Dreams by Wright Thompson
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Homer’s Odyssey by Emily Wilson
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Bea Garcia - The Tree and Me by Deborah Zemke
Boy Erased by Garrard Conley
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
