Top Titles at Public Libraries - July 2021

Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in July 2021.

This month sees both continuing summer favorites and some new releases. July saw The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave in first place in libraries for the third straight month. New in July are The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, and The Paper Palace, a debut novel by Miranda Cowley Heller. The Personal Librarian is a historical novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene. The Paper Palace takes place on Cape Cod on a single day in July. Other beach- and summer-themed popular this month include Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand and People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry.

1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
2. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
6. Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
7. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
8. The Cellist by Daniel Silva
9. Falling by T. J. Newman
10. The President’s Daughter: A Thriller by Bill Clinton
11. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
12. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
13. It’s Better This Way by Debbie Macomber
14. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
15. Sooley by John Grisham
16. Survive the Night by Riley Sager
17. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
18. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
19. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
20. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

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