Monday, February 3, 2014

Top circulating books of 2013

Curious as to what everyone seems to be reading these days?  So were we!  Here were the top ten circulating fiction books* in our collection in 2013:

  1. Girl Gone by Gillian Flynn
  2. The Racketeer by John Grisham
  3. The Husband List by Janet Evanovich
  4. Private Berlin by James Patterson
  5. Six Years by Harlan Coben
  6. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
  7. The Hit by David Baldacci
  8. The Forgotten by David Baldacci
  9. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
  10. A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
And these were our top ten circulating non-fiction books*:

  1. Killing Kennedy: the End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly
  2. Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis
  3. Killing Lincoln: the Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
  4. Proof of Heaven: a Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander
  5. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  6. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
  7. Barron's ACT
  8. Outliers: the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  9. Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  10. Heaven is for Real: a Little Boy's Astounding Story of his Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo

*Note: These numbers do not include any items from our children's or young adult collections, only our regular fiction collection.

Want to see how we compare to the New York Public Library?  Check out their list.