Best Sellers: Books Most Borrowed, October 2016

by LJ Reviews
Oct 19, 2016 | Filed in Reviews+
Whitehead's Railroad steams onto the list; Schumer's Tattoo takes over the No. 1 spot
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 The Black Widow. Daniel Silva. Harper. 
ISBN 9780062320223. $27.99. 1 / 2
2 Bullseye. James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. 
Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316407083. $28. 8 / 2
3 Truly Madly Guilty. Liane Moriarty. Flatiron: Macmillan. 
ISBN 978-1250069795. $26.99. 4 / 2
4 The Underground Railroad. Colson Whitehead. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385542364. $26.95. – / 1
5 The Girl on the Train. Paula Hawkins. Riverhead. 
ISBN 9781594633669. $26.95. 7 / 18
6 The Girls. Emma Cline. Random. ISBN 9780812998603. $27. 2 / 3
7 The Woman in Cabin 10. Ruth Ware. Scout: Gallery. 
ISBN 9781501132933. $26. – / 1
8 The Games. James Patterson & Mark Sullivan. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316407113. $28. 3 / 2
9 Magic. Danielle Steel. Delacorte. ISBN 9780345531100. $28.95. 10 / 2
10 Before the Fall. Noah Hawley. Grand Central. 
ISBN 9781455561780. $26. 5 / 3
11 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Pts. 1 & 2: Special Rehearsal Edition Script. Jack Thorne. Arthur A. Levine. ISBN 9781338099133. $29.99. 12 / 2
12 Sting. Sandra Brown. Grand Central. 
ISBN 9781455581207. $26. – / 1
13 A Man Called Ove. Fredrik Backman. Washington Square: Atria. ISBN 9781476738024. $16. 13 / 2
14 The Nest. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. Ecco: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062414212. $26.99. 6 / 5
15 The Last Mile. David Baldacci. Grand Central. 
ISBN 9781455586455. $29. 9 / 6

NONFICTION

RANK LAST RANKING / TIMES ON LIST
1 The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. Amy Schumer. Gallery: S. & S. ISBN 9781501139888. $28. 11 / 2
2 When Breath Becomes Air. Paul Kalanithi. Random. 
ISBN 9780812988406. $25. 1 / 7
3 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. J.D. Vance. Harper. ISBN 9780062300546. $27.99. 5 / 2
4 Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates. 
Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 9780812993547. $24. 2 / 12
5 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. Marie Kondo. Ten Speed. ISBN 9781607747307. $16.99. 6 / 18
6 Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate. Gary J. Byrne. Center Street: Hachette. ISBN 9781455568871. $27. 7 / 2
7 American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst. Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385536714. $28.95. – / 1
8 Alexander Hamilton. Ron Chernow. Penguin Pr. 
ISBN 9781594200090.$35; pap. Penguin. 
ISBN 9780143034759. $20. 4 / 4
9 Love Warrior. Glennon Doyle Melton. Flatiron: Macmillan. ISBN 9781250128546. $25.99. – / 1
10 The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss. Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt. Harper. ISBN 9780062454942. $27.99. 3 / 5
11 White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class 
in America. Nancy Isenberg. Viking. ISBN 9780670785971. $28. 13 / 2
12 You’ll Grow Out of It. Jessi Klein. Grand Central. 
ISBN 9781455531189. $26. 10 / 2
13 Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. 
Angela Duckworth. Scribner. ISBN 9781501111105. $28. 9 / 3
14 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age 
of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander. New Pr. 
ISBN 9781595581037. $27.95; pap. 
ISBN 9781595586438. $19.95. – / 1
15 Lab Girl. Hope Jahren. Knopf. ISBN 9781101874936. $26.95. 12 / 2
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