2018 School Spending Survey Report
Best Sellers: Books Most Borrowed, October 2018
The President Is Missing is not missing from the No. 1 spot; Woodward invokes Fear in nonfiction
FICTION
LAST RANKING / TIMES ON LIST
| 1 | The President Is Missing. Bill Clinton & James Patterson. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316412698. $30. | 1 / 3 |
| 2 | The Other Woman. Daniel Silva. Harper. ISBN 9780062834829. $28.99. | 6 / 2 |
| 3 | The 17th Suspect. James Patterson & Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316274043. $29. | 2 / 3 |
| 4 | The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah. St. Martin’s. ISBN 9780312577230. $28.99. | 4 / 6 |
| 5 | Shelter in Place. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s. ISBN 9781250161598. $27.99. | 9 / 2 |
| 6 | Crazy Rich Asians. Kevin Kwan. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385536974. $25.95; pap. Anchor. ISBN 9780345803788. $16. | – / 1 |
| 7 | Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin Pr. ISBN 9780735224292. $27. | 3 / 10 |
| 8 | The Woman in the Window. A.J. Finn. Morrow. ISBN 9780062678416. $26.99. | 5 / 7 |
| 9 | Princess. James Patterson & Rees Jones. Grand Central. ISBN 9781538714447. $32; pap. ISBN 9781538714430. $15.99. | 8 / 2 |
| 10 | Murder in Paradise. James Patterson. Grand Central. ISBN 9781538730768. $25. | – / 1 |
| 11 | The Outsider. Stephen King. Scribner. ISBN 9781501180989. $30. | 14 / 2 |
| 12 | The Perfect Couple. Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316375269. $28. | 7 / 2 |
| 13 | Pachinko. Min Jin Lee. Grand Central. ISBN 9781455563937. $27; pap. ISBN 9781455563920. $15.99. | 10 / 2 |
| 14 | The Fallen. David Baldacci. Grand Central. ISBN 9781538761397. $29. | 15 / 4 |
| 15 | Clock Dance. Anne Tyler. Knopf. ISBN 9780525521228. $26.95. | – / 1 |
NONFICTION
LAST RANKING / TIMES ON LIST
| 1 | Fear: Trump in the White House. Bob Woodward. S. & S. ISBN 9781501175510. $30. | – / 1 |
| 2 | Educated: A Memoir. Tara Westover. Random. ISBN 9780399590504. $28. | 1 / 6 |
| 3 | A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. James Comey. Flatiron: Macmillan. ISBN 9781250192455. $29.99. | 2 / 5 |
| 4 | Calypso. David Sedaris. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316392389. $28. | 4 / 3 |
| 5 | Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Michael Wolff. Holt. ISBN 9781250158062. $30. | 3 / 8 |
| 6 | How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Michael Pollan. Penguin. ISBN 9781594204227. $28. | 8 / 3 |
| 7 | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. Trevor Noah. Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 9780399588174. $28. | 6 / 18 |
| 8 | The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life. Mark Manson. HarperOne. ISBN 9780062457714. $24.99. | 7 / 14 |
| 9 | Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House. Omarosa Manigault Newman. Gallery: S. & S. ISBN 9781982109707. $28. | – / 1 |
| 10 | I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. Michelle McNamara. Harper. ISBN 978-0062319784. $27.99. | 5 / 4 |
| 11 | Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant To Be. Rachel Hollis. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 9781400201655. $22.99. | – / 1 |
| 12 | The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row. Anthony Ray Hinton & Lara Love Harden. St. Martin’s. ISBN 9781250205797. $26.99. | 11 / 2 |
| 13 | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. David Grann. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385534246. $28.95. | 10 / 14 |
| 14 | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. J.D. Vance. Harper. ISBN 9780062300546. $27.99. | 9 / 22 |
| 15 | 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Jordan B. Peterson. Random Canada. ISBN 9780345816023. $25.95. | 15 / 6 |
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 2018 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.
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