Top 5 Bestsellers 2023

Tue 19 Dec 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , , , , | Posted by: Gavin

Top 5 shipped from distroHere are our top 5 bestsellers so far this year by numbers shipped from our distributor:

  1. Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places
  2. Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
  3. Kij Johnson, The Privilege of the Happy Ending
  4. Anya Johanna DeNiro, OKPsyche
  5. Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

In 2023 we published the Liminals series capper from Ayize Jama-Everett, Heroes from Another World. Ayize had an amazing year: he published 3 books (including a great Afrofuturistic graphic novel The Last Count of Monte Cristo) and put out a documentary, A Table of Our Own: “an extraordinary and thought-provoking documentary that delves into the rich tapestry of the African-American experience, exploring the intersection of psychedelic substance use, spirituality and the pursuit of social justice.”

We followed Ayize’s novel with Sarah Pinsker’s second collection which was included in Slate’s Best Books of the Year.

Then came Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche — I think the review I enjoyed most was Jake Casella Brookins in Locus which started off, “I was completely unprepared for how powerful Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche is” and leapt off into the kind of review that I alwayshope to read of a book I love.

Our final book of the year was Kij Johnson’s The Privilege of the Happy Ending. 10 years in the making, it’s a weird and wide-ranging collection and was recently reviewed in the Washington Post by Michael Dirda.

We’re shipping books & zines from our warehouse and Book Moon daily. Orders welcome!