The 10 Most-Read Brookline Public Library Books Of 2019

BROOKLINE, MA — Out of the thousands of books the Brookline Public Library loaned out last year, there are a just a few that were borrowed over and over again. The library gave Patch a list of it's most-read books of 2019, broken down by category and it shows top 10 most checked out titles.

So what topped the list?

Adult

• "Big Sky" / by Kate Atkinson,
• "The Testaments"/ by Margaret Atwood,
• "A Better Man"/ by Louise Penny,
• "City of Girls"/by Elizabeth Gilbert,
• "The Dutch House"/ by Ann Patchett,
• "The New Girl"/ by Daniel Silva,
• "Maybe you Should Talk To Someone"/by Lori Gottlieb,
• "Mrs. Everything"/ by Jennifer Weiner,
• "Nickel Boys"/by Colson Whitehead,
• "Normal People"/ by Sally Rooney,

• "Diary of an awesome friendly kid: Rowley Jefferson's journal" / by Jeff Kinney
• "Dog man: for whom the ball rolls" / written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey
• "Guts" / Raina Telgemeier
• "Big Nate: payback time!" / by Lincoln Peirce
• "The 104-story treehouse" / Andy Griffiths ; illustrated by Terry Denton
• "Narwhal's otter friend"/ Ben Clanton
• "Boy-crazy Stacey" / a graphic novel by Gale Galligan
• "Click"" / by Kayla Miller
• "The pigeon has to go to school!"/ by Mo Willems
• "Wings of fire. Book two, The lost heir: the graphic novel" / by Tui T. Sutherland ; adapted by Barry Deutsch ; art by Mike Holmes

Teen:

At the top of the list was "The poet X" / a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo. This book originally came out in 2018, but it was the required read at Brookline High School this summer, and the library provided a number of copies for that.

• "On the come up" / Angie Thomas
• "Two can keep a secret" / Karen M. McManus
• "Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me" / Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
• "The vanishing stair" / Maureen Johnson
• "The wicked king" / Holly Black
• "Internment" / Samira Ahmed
• "Wayward son" / Rainbow Rowell
• "King of scars" / Leigh Bardugo
• "Pumpkinheads" / written by Rainbow Rowell ; art by Faith Erin Hicks ; color by Sarah Stern
• "The secret commonwealth" / Philip Pullman

Movies (released in 2018/2019)

• "The Girl In the Spider's Web"
• "Can You Ever Forgive Me,"
• "If Beale Street Could Talk,"
• "The Hate U Give,"
• "First Man,"
• "The Wife"
• "Green Book,"
• "Vice"
• "A Star is Born,"
• "Bohemian Rhapsody,"