Best Sellers: Books Most Borrowed, February 2016

Rogue Lawyers is at the top, while Evanovich turns 22; Kondo tidies up with two titles
Library Journal’s Best Sellers is compiled from data on books borrowed and requested (placed on hold) at public libraries throughout the United States. It includes statistics from urban, suburban, and rural libraries. We thank the many contributing libraries as well as The Library Corporation (TLC), Polaris Library Systems, and SirsiDynix. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.

FICTION

RANK LAST RANKING / TIMES ON LIST
1 Rogue Lawyer. John Grisham. Doubleday. 
ISBN 9780385539432. $28.95. 1 / 3
2 The Guilty. David Baldacci. Grand Central. 
ISBN 9781455586424. $28. 8 / 2
3 The Crossing. Michael Connelly. Little, Brown. 
ISBN 9780316225885. $28. 2 / 2
4 Cross Justice. James Patterson. Little, Brown. 
ISBN 9780316407045. $29. – / 1
5 Tricky Twenty-Two. Janet Evanovich. Bantam. 
ISBN 9780345542960. $28. 10 / 2
6 Fates and Furies. Lauren Groff. Riverhead. 
ISBN 9781594634475. $27.95. 13 / 2
7 The Girl on the Train. Paula Hawkins. Riverhead. 
ISBN 9781594633669. $26.95. 6 / 11
8 The Nightingale. Kristin Hannah. St. Martin’s. 
ISBN 9780312577223. $27.99. 15 / 10
9 All the Light We Cannot See. Anthony Doerr. Scribner. 
ISBN 9781476746586. $27. 7 / 15
10 The Promise. Robert Crais. Putnam. 
ISBN 9780399161490. $27.95. – / 1
11 The Girl in the Spider’s Web. David Lagercrantz. Knopf. 
ISBN 9780385354288. $27.95. 4 / 4
12 Make Me. Lee Child. Delacorte. ISBN 9780804178778. $28.99. 5 / 5
13 The Murder House. James Patterson & David Ellis. 
Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316410984. $28. 3 / 3
14 See Me. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central. 
ISBN 9781455520619. $27. 12 / 2
15 Go Set a Watchman. Harper Lee. Harper. 
ISBN 9780062409850. $27.99. 14 / 7
 

NONFICTION

RANK LAST RANKING / TIMES ON LIST
1 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. Marie Kondo. Ten Speed. ISBN 9781607747307. $16.99. 1 / 11
2 Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates. 
Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 9780812993547. $24. 2 / 5
3 Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling. Crown Archetype. 
ISBN 9780804138147. $26. 3 / 4
4 Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up. Marie Kondo. Ten Speed. 
ISBN 9781607749721. $18.99. – / 1
5 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. Elizabeth Gilbert. Riverhead. ISBN 9781594634710. $24.95. 6 / 4
6 Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. 
Leah Remini. Ballantine. ISBN 9781101886960. $27. 4 / 2
7 Modern Romance. Aziz Ansari. Penguin Pr. 
ISBN 9781594206276. $28.95. 7 / 6
8 Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed 
a Presidency. Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. Holt. 
ISBN 9781627792417. $30. 5 / 3
9 My Life on the Road. Gloria Steinem. Random. 
ISBN 9780679456209. $28. 12 / 2
10 The Witches: Salem, 1692. Stacy Schiff. Little, Brown. 
ISBN 9780316200608. $32. 9 / 2
11 Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things. 
Jenny Lawson. Flatiron. ISBN 9781250077004. $26.99. 8 / 3
12 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. 
Michael Lewis. Norton. ISBN 978-0393072235. $27.95; pap. ISBN 9780393338829. $15.95 – / 8
13 Year of Yes: How To Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun 
and Be Your Own Person. Shonda Rhimes. S. & S. 
ISBN 9781476777092. $24.99. 15 / 2
14 Boys in the Trees: A Memoir. Carly Simon. Flatiron: Macmillan. ISBN 9781250095893. $28.99. – / 1
15 H Is for Hawk. Helen Macdonald. Grove. 
ISBN 9780802123411. $26. – / 3
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