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The Library's Most Popular Items of 2015

While many media sites are posting "best of 2015" lists, we want to share which Library items circulated the most last year. You won't find many surprises on this list; there are a lot of bestsellers here.

FICTION BOOKS

  1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  2. The Children Act: A Novel by Ian McEwan
  3. The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir
  4. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
  5. Euphoria: A Novel by Lily King

NONFICTION BOOKS

  1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
  2. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In the End by Atul Gawande
  3. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
  4. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
  5. H Is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald

DVDs

  1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  2. Birdman: Or, the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
  3. Downton Abbey (Season 5)
  4. Finding Vivian Maier
  5. Interstellar

AUDIOBOOKS

  1. The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
  2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
  3. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
  4. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
  5. The Art of the English Murder by Lucy Worsley

E-AUDIOBOOKS

  1. The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
  2. Lancaster and York: The War of the Roses by Alison Weir
  3. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
  4. The Labyrinth of Osiris by Paul Sussman
  5. Palindrome by Stuart Woods

E-BOOKS

  1. Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
  2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  3. Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Daniel Jones
  4. My Brilliant Friend by Ferrante, Elena by Ann Goldstein,
  5. Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Daniel Jones

E-MAGAZINES

  1. The Economist
  2. Dwell
  3. Bloomberg Businessweek
  4. Macworld
  5. PC Magazine

MUSIC CDs

  1. West Side Story, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
  2. Bob Dylan: The Original Mono Recordings by Bob Dylan
  3. Guitar Music from Brazil by Graham Anthony Devine
  4. Bossa Nova Brasil by Various Artists
  5. Cello Concerto No. 1 (C-Major), Cello Concerto No. 2 (D Major), Franz Joseph Haydn, performed by Yo-Yo Ma

OTHER

  • Latitude D630 laptop computer
  • Portable compact disc player*

* The vast majority of checkouts of this item were for the headphones to be used to listen to audio on the public computers.

Posted on Jan. 20, 2016 by Erik Sandall