Readers’ choices – the most popular books at EPL in 2011

  • by <a title="All Scott’s posts" href="http://areadinglife.com/author/hantabartleby/" target="_blank">Scott</a>, Everett Public Library staff
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2012 8:42am
  • LifeA Reading Life

In December we ran a series of bestoftheyear posts in which the library’s materials selectors shared with you the most notable and critically acclaimed books and media of the year, along with our blog contributors’ favorite reads.

Now it’s time to share some of your own favorites with you.

Click on the categories below to see which books published in 2011 have been most popular among Everett Public Library users. The links will run real-time searches in the library catalog, retrieving those titles that have been most frequently checked out or placed on hold over the past 120 days. These search statements and algorithms are a little fuzzy, but overall they’ll give you a good idea of which adult books have been most popular.

Books published in 2011 

All Fiction collections combined

Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery  /  Thriller   or   Mystery &Thriller combined

SF  /  Fantasy   or   SF &Fantasy combined

Romance

Christian &Inspirational Fiction

All Non-Fiction

Art, Painting &Photography  /  Crafts

Biography &Memoir

Christianity   /  Other Religions &Spirituality

Cooking

Gardening

Graphic Novels

Health

History

Literature  /  Essays  /  Poetry

Personal Finance

Philosophy

Psychology  /  Parapsychology

Science & Nature   /   Mathematics

Social Sciences (society, politics, economics)

True Crime

Oversize collection

Career collection

And for an idea of perennial favorites, click the links below to see what is most popular from our backlist, so to speak – the currently most popular books with publishing dates of 2006 or earlier.

Books published before 2007

All Fiction collections combined

Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery  /  Thriller   or   Mystery &Thriller combined

SF  / Fantasy   or   SF &Fantasy combined

Romance

Christian &Inspirational Fiction

All Non-Fiction

Art, Painting &Photography  / Crafts

Biography &Memoir

Christianity  /  Other Religions &Spirituality

Cooking

Gardening

Graphic Novels

Health

History

Literature  /  Essays  /  Poetry

Personal Finance

Philosophy

Psychology  /  Parapsychology

Science & Nature   /  Mathematics

Social Sciences (society, politics, economics)

True Crime

Everett &Snohomish County History – for all years

Oversize collection – for all years

Career collection – for all years

And finally, looking into the new year, click here to see what titles are on order (to see them in order of popularity, change the “Sort by” box to Most Popular).

Be sure to visit A Reading Life for more reviews and news of all things happening at the Everett Public Library.

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