Top 25 Reads: Arlington Public Library's Most Popular Books Of 2022

ARLINGTON, VA — Are you looking for a good book to read in 2023? If you trust the judgment of other Arlingtonians, then you should check out Arlington Public Library’s list of most circulated books of 2022.

If you’re looking for a good book that may have flown under the radar, Arlington’s library professionals also have put together a program where they will help you find gems that received rave reviews but weren’t the most popular books when they hit the stacks or the library's eBook collection.

Arlington Public Library’s most circulated book of 2022 was different from what library customers in neighboring Fairfax County checked out the most.

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In Arlington, the top circulated title — among eBooks, eAudiobooks and print — was “The Lincoln Highway,” a novel by Amor Towles. The most circulated title in the Fairfax County Public Library system was “The Midnight Library” by novelist Matt Haig. “The Midnight Library” ranked as the 10th most circulated adult title in Arlington.

The top circulating print title for adult fiction in Fairfax County was John Grisham’s “The Judge’s List” and the top print title for adult nonfiction in Fairfax County was “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner.

Grisham’s “The Judge’s List” did not make Arlington Public Library’s top 25 most circulated titles of 2022, while Zauner’s “Crying in H Mart” was the seventh most circulated title in Arlington.

In 2022, Arlington Public Library saw each of its top six most circulating titles rise above the 2,000-checkout mark. Here are the top 25 adult circulated print, eBook and eAudiobook titles in Arlington for 2022:

1. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

2. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

3. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

4. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

6. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

7. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

8. Book Lovers by Emily Henry

9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

10. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

11. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

12. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

13. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

14. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

15. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

16. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

17. The Maid by Nita Prose

18. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

19. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

20. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

21. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

22. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

23. Verity by Colleen Hoover

24. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

25. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

If you are curious about which books you might have missed in 2022 but didn't make the top 25 list, Arlington Public Library has put together a curated list of other books that staff members believe should be on everybody’s reading list. The books are sorted into five subcategories: fiction, nonfiction, teen, elementary/middle grade, and picture books/early readers.

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