Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in April 2024. The Women by Kristin Hannah A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci Funny Story by Emily Henry The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston The Truth about the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline James by Percival Everett Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Toxic Prey by John Sandford A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J.
Last week we posted the 2023 Top Titles for US Public libraries, based on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound to add covers, summaries, recommendations and more. We’ve also posted the 2023 Top Titles for Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. When Genres are Tricky Genres are tricky! First, nobody agrees on them! One patron’s science fiction is another patron’s romance that only incidentally happens in space! There is no best answer, so we chose to make our lists highly inclusive.
Last week we posted the 2023 Top Titles for US Public libraries, based on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound to add covers, summaries, recommendations and more. Here are the top titles for Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom! Australia Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear Homecoming by Kate Morton Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Yellowface by R.
Syndetics Unbound’s year-end “Top Titles” list for all of 2023! 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. Soon 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.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in November 2023. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros The Exchange: After The Firm by John Grisham Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly The Secret by Lee Child The Woman In Me by Britney Spears The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Tom Lake by Ann Patchett All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell The Edge by David Baldacci My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in October 2023. The Exchange: After The Firm by John Grisham Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann The Woman In Me by Britney Spears Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Judgment Prey by John Sandford The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell The Armor of Light by Ken Follett The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Holly by Stephen King The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season by Alan Ball 12 Months to Live by James Patterson The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith Starling House by Alix E.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in September 2023. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Holly by Stephen King Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner Payback in Death by J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in August 2023. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Happy Place by Emily Henry Out of Nowhere by Sandra Brown Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapeña The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand The Collector by Daniel Silva Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Lion & Lamb by James Patterson Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in July 2023. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Happy Place by Emily Henry The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese The Only One Left by Riley Sager Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Zero Days by Ruth Ware Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Obsessed by James Patterson It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in June 2023. Happy Place: A Novel by Emily Henry Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Identity by Nora Roberts Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Cross Down by James Patterson It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Simply Lies by David Baldacci Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Zero Days by Ruth Ware The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in May 2023. Happy Place by Emily Henry Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Simply Lies by David Baldacci The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel by Patti Callahan Henry It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel by Tom Hanks The Wedding Planner by Danielle Steel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in April 2023. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Simply Lies by David Baldacci Dark Angel by John Sandford I Will Find You by Harlan Coben Homecoming by Kate Morton Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Countdown by James Patterson It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline Happy Place by Emily Henry Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in March 2023. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Storm Watch by C. J. Box I Will Find You by Harlan Coben Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Spare by Prince Harry Pineapple Street: A Novel by Jenny Jackson Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Verity by Colleen Hoover The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes Worthy Opponents by Danielle Steel The London Séance Society: A Novel by Sarah Penner How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in February 2023. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Spare by Prince Harry The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Encore in Death by J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in January 2023. Spare by Prince Harry Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult The House of Wolves by James Patterson The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller by John Grisham A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo Without a Trace by Danielle Steel Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear How Do We Know?
Yesterday we posted the top titles of 2022 in US Public libraries. Here are the top titles for Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom! Australia It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Verity by Colleen Hoover The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.
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.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in December 2022. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham Desert Star by Michael Connelly Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Choice by Nora Roberts Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine by Janet Evanovich Fairy Tale by Stephen King No Plan B by Lee Child The Whittiers by Danielle Steel The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Triple Cross by James Patterson How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in November 2022. The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham Desert Star by Michael Connelly Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine by Janet Evanovich No Plan B by Lee Child It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Verity by Colleen Hoover It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Long Shadows by David Baldacci The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Triple Cross by James Patterson Fairy Tale by Stephen King I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in October 2022. Verity by Colleen Hoover The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Long Shadows by David Baldacci Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks Fairy Tale by Stephen King It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Our Missing Hearts: A Novel by Celeste Ng It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Righteous Prey by John Sandford I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy The Winners by Fredrik Backman Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Treasure State by C.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in September 2022. Fairy Tale by Stephen King I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Verity by Colleen Hoover It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens All Good People Here: A Novel by Ashley Flowers Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith Blowback by James Patterson Dreamland: A Novel by Nicholas Sparks The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Desperation in Death by J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in August 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci The It Girl by Ruth Ware I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus All Good People Here: A Novel by Ashley Flowers Shattered (Michael Bennett Book 14) by James Patterson The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover Sparring Partners by John Grisham Overkill by Sandra Brown Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Midnight Library by Matt Haig How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in July 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager Verity by Colleen Hoover The It Girl by Ruth Ware The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Sparring Partners by John Grisham The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Escape by James Patterson Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Book Lovers by Emily Henry The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Horse by Geraldine Brooks Portrait of an Unknown Woman: A Novel by Daniel Silva Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in June 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. Sparring Partners by John Grisham Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand Nightwork: A Novel by Nora Roberts It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Meant to Be: A Novel by Emily Giffin Verity by Colleen Hoover The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Book Lovers by Emily Henry The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 22 Seconds by James Patterson Dream Town by David Baldacci The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in May 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. 22 Seconds by James Patterson* Dream Town by David Baldacci Book Lovers by Emily Henry* Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner* The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews* The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Book of Night by Holly Black Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson The Investigator by John Sandford The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in April 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. This month saw eight such titles—the most in quite a while! What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline* Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson* The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn* The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley The Investigator by John Sandford* Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in March 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. This month saw eight such titles—the most in quite a while! Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson* The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley Shadows Reel by C. J. Box* The Match by Harlan Coben* The Maid by Nita Prose One Italian Summer: A Novel by Rebecca Serle* The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The Love of My Life by Lucy Robinson Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks* It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The Club by Ellery Lloyd* The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Verity by Colleen Hoover The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich* The Lightning Rod by Brad Meltzer* House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in February 2022. The Maid by Nita Prose The Midnight Library by Matt Haig One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The Horsewoman by James Patterson The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Verity by Colleen Hoover Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston The Judge’s List by John Grisham Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in January 2022. The Maid by Nita Prose Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Judge’s List by John Grisham It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Something to Hide by Elizabeth George The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Invisible: A Novel by Danielle Steel One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner The Horsewoman by James Patterson The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom Verity by Colleen Hoover A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah The Wish by Nicholas Sparks How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in December 2021 The big new in Decemeber are two books released in the last week of November: Jodi Picoult’s Wish You Were Here and Diana Gabaldon’s Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Wish You Were Here is the first bestselling “COVID novel.” The plot involves a young professional stranded in the Galápagos, her soon-to-be-fiancé left behind to fight the virus as a doctor in New York.
Syndetics Unbound’s year-end “Top Titles” list for all of 2021! We’ve compiled the most searched-for and looked-at books in public and academic libraries around the world, drawing on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound. Check out this “bar chart race” of the top searched-for books in US public libraries! I hope you find it as mesmerizing as we do. View this visualisation on Flourish. United States Public Libraries Here are the top 50 books in US public libraries across all of 2021.
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in November 2021 Only a few of the November Top Titles are new to the list. Among the stand-alone titles was Never, a political thriller by Ken Follett. Weighing in at 800 pages, Never is an “action-packed, globe-spanning drama.” A number of series also received new sequels: Diana Gabaldon released the eighth “Outlander” book, Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone; Janet Evanovich released the 28th “Stephanie Plum” book, Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight; David Baldacci released a fouth “Atlee Pine” book Mercy; and Michael Connelly released the fourth “Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel,” The Dark Hours.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in October 2021. Fall has seen a number of big releases in literary fiction. Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway took first place in October, with glowing reviews from the New York Times and NPR. Patrons were also eager to read Anthony Doerr’s newly-released Cloud Cuckoo Land, which ranges from the 15c siege of Constantinople, to modern-day Idaho and future interstellar space.
It was a season of hot, fun, sometimes escapist reads. Summer isn’t officially over until September 22, but with most children back in school or about to go back, it feels over already. Did you get any beach reading done? (We did, and it felt great.) The 50 Most Popular Here are the fifty most popular books in US public libraries from June 1 to August 31, according to Syndetics Unbound.
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.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in June 2021. Summer is here! The author of this newsletter believes a “beach read” is whatever you read on the beach, but publishers time certain releases for the summer. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid heads the June arrivals. Following a family of adult children on a literal beach in Malibu, Ophrah Weekly wrote “If summer could somehow fit into a book, then you’d find it in Malibu Rising.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in May 2021. Summer is coming, and so are the books of summer! May saw popular new books from Laura Dave, Andy Weir, James Patterson, Jennifer Weiner and Maggie Shipstead. Georgia politician and voting-rights advocate Stacey Abrams, who had previously written under the pen name Selena Montgomery, released the legal thriller While Justice Sleeps. And Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball and The Big Short, released the only non-fiction book on top-20: The Premonition, a narrative a “nonfiction thriller” on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in April 2021. This month saw much interest in the newly-published The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman. Subtitled “An Inaugural Poem for the Country,” this was the poem Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration. Other notable new books include James Patterson’s The Red Book, Martha Hall Kelly’s Sunflower Sisters and Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig remain at the top of the list.
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in March 2021. New this month include Life After Death: A Novel by Sister Souljah, the sequel to her 1999 bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian science fiction novel Klara and the Sun. We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker was not released until the beginning of April, but interest was high in March. A quick check of some participating libraries finds a lot of holds!
Here are the top fifteen titles public-library patrons looked for in February 2021. New on the list this month is Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, no doubt because of the Netflix Series, which came out February 3. Hannah’s The Four Winds heads the list this month too. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles The Russian by James Patterson Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.
Here are the top fifteen titles public-library patrons looked for in January 2021. They include some titles from our Top-in-2020 list, but some are quite new. Number four, The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah wasn’t officially released until February 2, so its number one position was purely anticipatory. In other words, a LOT of holds! The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Duke and I by Julia Quinn The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.
We recently did a blog post on the Top Syndetics Unbound Titles of 2020, covering what public-library patrons were searching for and finding in 2020. But what about academic libraries? This data was aggregated across libraries using Syndetics Unbound worldwide. The picture is more complicated in academic libraries than public libraries. First, academic libraries differ from each other more than public ones do. Titles that head the list month after month at technical colleges may not even appear at a law or divinity library.
Ever wonder what patrons are searching for in library catalogs? We have the answers for 2020, aggregated from all the public libraries that use Syndetics Unbound. United States Top Fifteen These were the top fifteen most searched-for books of 2020 in US public libraries. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Camino Winds by John Grisham The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides The Guest List: A Novel by Lucy Foley The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes Walk the Wire by David Baldacci Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover Fair Warning by Michael Connelly The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben Month by Month The top books above are mostly popular books that stayed popular for much of the year.
