The New York Public Library will be sharing monthly lists of the books most checked out at its 91 locations, beginning with the top adult fiction and non-fiction books in July, August, and September 2013. The lists show which books were most popular amongst users of NYPL branches in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island. The check-outs include both paper books and e-books.
September 2013
Top Adult Fiction
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
- First Sight by Danielle Steel
- W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
- Never Go Back by Lee Child
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Top Adult Nonfiction
- Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
- My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
- VB6: Eat Vegan before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore your Health… for Good : the Flexible Diet You Can Really Stick To, with More than 60 Easy, Delicious Recipes by Mark Bittman
- The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
- Cracking the GED by Geoff Martz
- Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
- The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
August 2013
Top Adult Fiction
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
- Mistress by James Patterson
- The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
- First Sight by Danielle Steel
- The Beast by Faye Kellerman
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Top Adult Non-Fiction
- Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
- My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
- Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
- VB6: Eat Vegan before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore your Health… for Good : the Flexible Diet You Can Really Stick To, with More than 60 Easy, Delicious Recipes by Mark Bittman
- The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson
- The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess by Turney Duff
- The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
- Cracking the GED by Geoff Martz
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
July 2013
Top Adult Fiction
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- Second Honeymoon by James Patterson
- The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
- The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
- The Heist by Janet Evanovich
Top Adult Non-Fiction
- Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
- My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
- Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
- Cracking the GED by Geoff Martz
- Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
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