Top Syndetics Unbound Titles of 2022

Syndetics Unbound’s year-end “Top Titles” list for all of 2022!

We’ve compiled the most popular books in public libraries around the world, drawing on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound to add covers, recommendations, summaries, series information and other enhancements to their library catalogs.

This post covers the United States. Tomorrow we’ll be releasing the data for Australia, Canada and the UK.

First, here’s a “bar chart race” showing the top books changing over the year. You can also see and share the visualization over on Flourish.

Here are the top titles for the whole year:

And here is a complete list of the top 100 books in US public libraries in 2022.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
Sparring Partners: Novellas by John Grisham
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
Dream Town by David Baldacci
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
November 9 by Colleen Hoover
22 Seconds by James Patterson
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Nightwork by Nora Roberts
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
The Match by Harlan Coben
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Shadows Reel by C. J. Box
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner
The Investigator by John Sandford
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Judge’s List by John Grisham
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Long Shadows by David Baldacci
Desert Star by Michael Connelly
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
French Braid by Anne Tyler
No Plan B by Lee Child
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine by Janet Evanovich
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Body Keeps The Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
Heartstopper: Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
Righteous Prey by John Sandford
The Horsewoman by James Patterson
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Layla by Colleen Hoover
Meant to Be by Emily Giffin
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Escape by James Patterson
The Love of My Life by Lucy Robinson
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Finally, while our top 20 titles included only fiction, non-fiction are still significant. Here are the top non-fiction titles from 2022.

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
The Body Keeps The Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman*
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman*
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman