Mechanics’ Institute Top Lists of 2024
Mechanics’ members are enthusiastic readers across all genres and subject areas. Below are the most popular print checkouts in various categories for all of 2024.
Top 10 fiction
1. James: a novel by Percival Everett
2. Table for Two: fictions by Amor Towles
3. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
5. The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
6. Lessons in Chemistry: a novel by Bonnie Garmus
7. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: a novel by Toshikazu KawaguchiJ
9. Tom Lake: a novel by Ann Patchett
10. Erasure: a novel by Percival Everett
Top 10 non-fiction
1. New in chess yearbook = New in chess Jahrbuch. 2022 (794.1 N53y)
2. Logical chess : move by move / Chernev, Irving, 1900-1981. 1998 (794.123 C52)
3. Why we swim / Tsui, Bonnie, author. 2021 (797.2 T882)
4. Burn book : a tech love story / Swisher, Kara, author. 2024 (338.47 S979)
5. The Bible as it was / Kugel, James L., author. 1997 (222.1 K95)
6. The Apocryphal and legendary life of Christ : being the whole body of the Apocryphal gospels and other extra canonical literature.... / Donehoo, James DeQuincey. 1903 (232.9 D681)
7. Head first Python / Barry, Paul, 1966- author. 2023 (005.1 B279)
8. My 60 memorable games / Fischer, Bobby, 1943-2008, author. 2008 (794.15 F52)
9. Prepare with chess strategy / Root, Alexey W., author. 2016 (Child 794.1 R782)
10. 500 Capp Street : David Ireland's house / Lewallen, Constance, author. 2015 (709.2 I654L)
Top 5 DVDs
1. Last Days of Disco (2009)
2. Oppenheimer (2023)
3. The Borgias: the complete series (2017)
4. Foyle's War (2009)
5. Rumpole of the Bailey (2005)
Top 5 Print Magazines
1. Country Life
3. Monocle
