And, it's a wrap for 2023. Fantasy and Romance genres were favorites last year. Realistic/Contemporary fiction ran a close second. Two Biographical Fiction titles placed high in the top 16 checkouts this year. Not too surprising as one of them won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Do you need a book for your Independent Reading assignment? This list has some great titles. Come browse or put one on hold. May you have happy reading adventures in 2024!
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Friday, January 12, 2024
Top 16 Fiction and Graphic Novel Checkouts of 2023
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Top 12 Fiction Borrowed in 2022
In 2022 speculative fiction (fantasy and science fiction) held the lead for the most checkouts from the Library's teen fiction collection. The favorites in the top 12 also tended to be fast paced and suspenseful. If there's something you'd like to read click the number to go to the record in our catalog and place a hold.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Top Checkouts in 2020
At the end of any year I can, mostly, name the books that went out at the highest rate. It is particularly true this year, as I re-shelved them when they came back. There were no Library Pages to help shelve (we miss them!) due to COVID. To get a true count of our top checkouts I ran a report, and Suzanne Collins' prequel to her science fiction series The Hunger Games, topped our 2020 teen fiction chart for most checkouts. This was not a surprise.
While all the books in the Hunger Games trilogy went out a lot this year due to the new prequel, other series also continued to be popular such as: Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series, the Maze Runner series by James Dashner, and Neal Shusterman's Arc of a Scythe series.
Dear Evan Hansen, 1984, Midnight Sun, The Hate U Give, The Ruins of Gorlan, One of Us is Lying, and Rebound were titles that were also very popular this year.
The top 3 nonfiction books in order of number of checkouts, were:
The top 10 graphic checkouts include two memoirs and one nonfiction title:
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Top Checkouts in 2019
Below are the top 12 fiction books checked out from our Young Adult collection during 2019. The Fantasy genre is in lead (4) followed by historical fiction (3), realistic fiction (2), and mystery (1). Click on the book jacket numbers to link to that title in our catalog.
And, if you are wondering, the top 12 titles checked out from our manga and graphic collections were: Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto, Sisters, Drama, and Smile (in that order) by Raina Telegemeier, Fullmetal Alchemist by Kiromu Arakawa, Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya, Bleach by Tite Kubo, Bone by Jeff Smith, Black Butler by Yana Toboso, and Samurai Deeper Kyo by Akimine Kamijo.
Top 12 Checkouts 2019 by kclaire
And, if you are wondering, the top 12 titles checked out from our manga and graphic collections were: Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto, Sisters, Drama, and Smile (in that order) by Raina Telegemeier, Fullmetal Alchemist by Kiromu Arakawa, Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya, Bleach by Tite Kubo, Bone by Jeff Smith, Black Butler by Yana Toboso, and Samurai Deeper Kyo by Akimine Kamijo.
Top 12 Checkouts 2019 by kclaire
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Book Floods
While December brings a flood of "best of" lists to my inbox, next month will see the start of the award announcement flood. (Although, the National Book Awards were announced last month: 1919 The Year That Changed America, by Martin W. Sandler, won in the Young People's Literature category.) I enjoy the end of year "best of" lists and love the winter holidays, but, I think I would trade all the winter holidays for Iceland's Jólabókaflóð (Yule Book Flood). If you don't know this fantastic celebration, here is NPR's report on it published in 2012: Literary Iceland Revels In It's Annual Christmas Book Flood. What could be more ideal than a holiday that brings a pile of new books (I think chocolate is also involved.) shared by and with friends and relatives, and the time to read them? Perfection! If only I could persuade everyone to adopt this book flood celebration...
Here are a few of the best of lists from my inbox:
And here are 5 of my favorite YA reads from 2019:
The Missing of Clairedelune, by Christelle Dabos, 2019. When her dangerous gift for reading the history of objects is revealed by her promotion to Vice-storyteller, Ophelia turns for support to her enigmatic fiance, Thorn, throughout a formidable investigation into the disappearances of several high-profile courtiers. (Book 2 in the Mirror Visitor Quartet.) Fantasy.
Sadie, by Courtney Summers, 2018. Told from the alternating perspectives of 19-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance. Murder Mystery, Suspense.
On the Come Up,
by Angie Thomas, 2019. Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great
rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons,
must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed
mother. Realistic fiction.
The Boneless Mercies, by April Tucholke, 2018. Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and
forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory
by going after a legendary monster in this re-imagining of Beowulf. Fantasy.
Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, by Ken
Ilgunas, 2013. The author describes his experiences working in Alaska to
pay off his college student loans and, how, inspired by the example of
Henry David Thoreau, he lived in spartan conditions in his van while
attending graduate school debt free. Nonfiction, Memoir.
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