Book lovers, we will not leave you hanging now or ever. Beef up your reading list if you haven’t done so already with this list of 5 bestselling books on Amazon in 2019 so far.
Check out the list below:
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1. Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen
Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2018 novel by Delia Owen’s. It has topped the The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2019 for 20 non-consecutive weeks. The story follows two timelines, slowly intertwining: the first describes the life and adventures of a young girl named Kya as she grows up isolated in the marsh of North Carolina through 1952–1969, and a murder investigation of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional coastal town of North Carolina. The book was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club in September 2018 and for Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2018. By March 2019, the book reached 1.5 million copies sold.
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2. Becoming by Michelle Obama
Becoming is the memoir of former United States first lady Michelle Obama published in 2018. Described by the author as a deeply personal experience, the book talks about her roots and how she found her voice, as well as her time in the White House, her public health campaign, and her role as a mother. The book is published by Crown and will be released in 24 languages. One million copies will be donated to First Book, an American nonprofit organization which provides books to children. It sold more copies than any other book published in the United States in 2018, breaking the record in just 15 days. By March 2019, Becoming had sold 10 million copies.
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3. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Tara Westover is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. Her memoir Educated debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America’s Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, and in a piece written by Bill Gates, Westover was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019. An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
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4. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Girl, Wash Your Face is described by The Washington Post as mixing “memoir, motivational tips, Bible quotations and common-sense girl talk. The prevailing message of her tome is one largely of female self-reliance, best summed up by Hollis in the book as “You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for how happy you are. The book has been wildly successful, described as a “publishing phenomenon and was the second-most popular book of 2018 on Amazon.com. Girl, Wash Your Face is listed as a New York Times best-seller under the Advice, How-To, & Miscellaneous category. The book is composed of 20 chapters centered on 20 lies Hollis said she formerly told herself —e.g. “I’ll start tomorrow” and “I am defined by my weight”— and she goes on to explain how she successfully tackled each obstacle.
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5. Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals is a Self-help book by Rachel Hollis. It follows her 2018 best-seller Girl, Wash Your Face. It was both a Publishers Weekly and The New York Times best-seller.
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