Raven Book Store Bestsellers

“The Raven was recently awarded Publishers Weekly’s Bookstore of the Year award, a huge honor that we’re very proud of. Believe it or not, however, this was not the first national championship to come to Lawrence this year.”

“Would you look at that: We have an 80% local bestseller list this week! If there’s one thing Raven customers truly love, it’s books either about Kansas or by Kansas authors (or both at the same time!).”

“The Raven has always had a big mystery section, since day one. … In the past year or so, the amazing booksellers of the Raven have worked to highlight a broader range of genre fiction as well.”

“I love the diversity on this week’s bestseller list. … Truly, you wouldn’t be able to replicate this bestseller list at any other bookstore.”

“The last few weeks have marked a return to live in-person events for the Raven, and the bestsellers list certainly shows it.”

“Not only is Sarah Smarsh’s wonderful book about Dolly Parton on the list, but so is Dolly Parton’s first novel.”

“The most tried-and-true way to end up on our list is to be a fantastic book with a local connection.”

Jennifer Raff, associate professor of anthropology at KU, rockets to No. 1 for the debut week of her new book, “Origin.”

“This bestseller list is almost completely unique to Lawrence, Kansas. I think that’s pretty cool.”

“For the first time since we began tracking bestsellers, four of the top 10 are current staff picks,” the Raven Book Store writes.

“Even with all this fall’s big hits, big new releases and even a few new classics, nobody had the numbers to unseat the mighty ‘Ladybird, Collected.’ That’s just fine with us,” the Raven Book Store writes of this week’s bestsellers.

“This one was no contest — Nikole Hannah-Jones’ monumental ‘The 1619 Project’ sold twice as many books as any other on the list.”

“We’ve never seen anything quite like how many people want to read ‘Dune’ right now.”

Nearly everything on this week’s bestseller list is Kansas-related!