Flashback: Awesome Bestsellers and Fan Favorites
Dover Bestselling Books of 2021
The Man in the Brown Suit found Bodies in a Bookshop and hid in the forest with The Box-Car Children who were learning The Art of Stone Painting and coloring Creative Haven® A Year in Flowers. Crafty needleworkers created “purrfect” projects with A Cat in My Pocket Embroidery, while kids wailed My Butt Is SO NOISY and then ran Around the World searching for words! Whew, 2021, what a year of awesome books! Check out our customer’s favorite books revealed through a year of bestsellers, including the aforementioned titles.
Relax and revive, color and learn! Coloring helped many of our customers escape into calm and relaxing states of fulfillment. How to Color Like an Artist was the perfect guide for those without formal training to enhance their coloring skills and techniques. Creative Haven® Country Gardens Color Book offered lush and scenic landscapes to adult colorists looking for a meditative experience, and The Life of Jesus Stained Glass Coloring Book inspired expressions of faith with a glow of heavenly cathedral effects. Parents kept little hands busy coloring and learning about the USA with State Birds and Flowers Coloring Book and The United States Coloring Book.
Jane Austen for the win! The novels of Jane Austen continue to enchant modern readers, and Pride and Prejudice from Dover’s Thrift Editions took the lead as bestselling literature title. The extraordinary storytelling of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass landed in the top ten, as well as the most popular of all of Shakespeare’s comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Designed to be read slowly, savored, and treasured, collectors and bibliophiles connected with printer and designer William Morris (1834–1896) through Calla Editions™ The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer With Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones.
The butt rules! Kids love reading those cheeky butt tales. Laugh-out-loud, hootin’, tootin’ humor kept preschoolers and kids — and grown-ups, too — giggling from the first page to the last in the third book of the bestselling series about the boy with the troublesome backside. My Butt is SO NOISY!, by the dynamic children’s book duo of author Dawn McMillan and illustrator Ross Kinnaird, offered humorous stress relief in delightful rhyming stories.
Exercise your brain! Puzzles are an excellent way to clear brain fog and a fun way to learn, and evidently, our customers thought so too! Popular puzzles included word search bestsellers Bible Word Search Puzzles, MORE Remarkable Women Word Search Puzzles, and USA Facts & Fun Word Search Puzzles, along with clever memory activities in The Saturday Evening Post Spot the Differences Picture Puzzles.
Lots of cooks were in the kitchen in 2021. Folks were learning How to Bake, experimenting with different recipes from The Bread Book, and discovering new frozen treat flavors from The Ice Cream Book: Over 400 Recipes.
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