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Summer 2011: A Retrospective, Part One

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 4:00pm

Today is officially the last day of summer.  While we anxiously await the cooler temperatures and changing leaves that come with fall (right??), let us take a look back on the summer of 2011 at the Northwest Library in terms of the most popularly circulating materials during the summer.

Today, part one.  The 25 most circulated Adult Fiction titles of the summer:

Four to Score [1] by Janet Evanovich
Getting to Happy [2] by Terry McMillan
The Spellman Files [3] by Lisa Lutz
I'll Walk Alone [4] by Mary Higgins Clark
The 9th Judgment [5] by James Patterson
Toys [6] by James Patterson
Safe Haven [7] by Nicholas Sparks
10th Anniversary [8] by James Patterson
Bel-Air Dead: a Stone Barrington Novel [9] by Stuart Woods
Buried Prey [10] by John Sandford
Don't Blink [11] by James Patterson
Her Mother's Hope [12] by Francine Rivers
Sing You Home [13] by Jodi Picoult
The Confession [14] by John Grisham
The Lincoln Lawyer [15] by Michael Connelly
Hell's Corner [16] by David Baldacci
House Rules [17] by Jodi Picoult
Tick Tock [18] by James Patterson
Caleb's Crossing [19] by Geraldine Brooks
Crescent Dawn [20] by Clive Cussler
Fall of Giants [21] by Ken Follett
Her Daughter's Dream [22] by Francine Rivers
Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn [23] by Mark Twain
American Assassin: a thriller [24] by Vince Flynn
Dead Reckoning [25] by Charlaine Harris

Stay tuned for more summer 2011 retrospective lists.  And shout out to Jim Johnson [26] of the Kingwood Branch Library [27]for the idea [28].


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