Enjoy seeing what your fellow Mainers wish to read (or listen to) the most!
Each month Josh Tiffany, the librarian at the Gray Library creates a High Demand Hold List from the Minerva Catalog requests.
Books
1) The Stars Are Fire (Shreve) – 245 holds on 45 items
2) The Stranger in the Woods (Finkel) – 219 holds on 65 items
3) Anything is Possible (Strout) – 147 holds on 40 items
4) A Piece of the World (Kline) – 144 holds on 56 items
5) The Fix (Baldacci) – 140 holds on 44 items
6) The Black Book (Patterson) – 100 holds on 38 items
7) Golden Prey (Sandford) – 96 holds on 33 items
8) Into the Water (Hawkins) – 95 holds on 13 items
9) 16th Seduction (Patterson) – 94 holds on 26 items
10) The Women in the Castle (Shattuck) – 67 holds on 33 items
11) Option B (Sandberg) – 43 holds on 7 items
12) Shattered: Inside Hilary Clinton’s Doom Campaign – 41 holds on 1 item
13) Against All Odds (Steel) – 40 holds on 15 items
14) Robert B Parker’s Little White Lies (Atkins) – 38 holds on 7 items
15) The Dark Prophecy (Riordan) – 29 holds on 7 items
16) Old School: Life in the Sane Lane (O’Reilly) – 26 holds on 9 items
17) Prince Charles (Smith) – 20 holds on 7 items
18) Less Than Treason (Stabenow) – 17 holds on 8 items
19) Radium Girls (Moore) – 17 holds on 4 items
20) Slow Horses (Herron) – 17 holds on 1 item
Audiobooks:
1) The Stars are Fire (Shreve) – 37 holds on 13 items
2) The Fix (Baldacci) – 16 holds on 5 items
3) The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood) – 14 holds on 5 items
4) The Black Book (Patterson) – 13 holds on 5 items
5) Golden Prey (Sandford) – 12 holds on 5 items
6) Beartown (Backman) – 10 holds on 5 items
7) Bone Box (Kellerman) – 8 holds on 3 items
8) Fast and Loose (Woods) – 8 holds on 2 items
9) One Perfect Lie (Scottoline) – 7 holds on 3 items
10) Unshakeable (Robbins) – 6 holds on 1 item
Graphic Novels
1) My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Ferris) – 16 holds on 3 items
2) Valerian: The New Future Trilogy – 4 holds on 1 item
3) Avengers vs. X-Men – 3 holds on 1 item
4) Nightwing: Vol 1 – 3 holds on 1 item
5) Deadpool vol. 4 – 2 holds on 1 item
6) Deadpool vol. 5 – 2 holds on 1 item
7) Rising of the Shield Hero – 2 holds on 1 item
8) Suicide Squad vol. 1 – 2 holds on 1 item
9) Supergirl vol.1 – 2 holds on 1 item
10) Supergirl vol. 2 – 2 holds on 1 item