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Top 10 Book Titles Borrowed From Fairfax Libraries in 2011
What Are You Reading?
Here are Fairfax County Public Library’s most popular titles for 2011. Top ten for adult fiction and top five for all others including the most popular books for kids.
The Top Ten Adult Fiction
The Confession by John Grisham
Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson
Sing you Home by Jodi Picoult
Toys: A novel by James Patterson & Neil McMahon
The Reversal: a Novel by Michael Connelly
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
Adult Nonfiction
Unbroken: A World War II story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Little Princes: one man’s promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
eBooks
The Confession by John Grisham
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Decision Points by George W. Bush (nonfiction)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larson
The Children and Teen collections were mostly series. We consolidated individual series titles and put them in a list of Top 5 series.
Juvenile Series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborn
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan
Geronimo Stilton
Most popular non-series children’s book: Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Seuss (#16)
Teen Series
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
Most popular non-series teen book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (#6)
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