Hot Titles in the GKHS library

The hottest titles in the GKHS library for 2014/15 school year.

	Title	Author	Circ. #
1	Through the Woods (graphic novel)	Carroll, Emily	44
2	This One Summer (graphic novel)	Tamaki, Mariko	34
3	Eleanor and Park	Rowell, Rainbow	32
4	The Fault in Our Stars	Green, John	32
5	Looking for Alaska	Green, John	30
6	Half Bad	Green, Sally	29
7	The Maze Runner	Dashner, James	29
8	I’ll Give You the Sun	Nelson, Jandy	28
9	Stolen	Christopher, Lucy	28
10	The Crossover	Alexander, Kwame	26
11	Say What You Will	McGovern, Connie	25
12	The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim	Johnston, EK	25
13	The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender	Walton, Leslye	25
14	The Family Romanov (Biography)	Fleming, Candace	24
15	Girls Like Us	Giles, Gail	22
16	Brown Girl Dreaming (Memoir)	Woodsen, Jacqueline	21
17	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	Andrews, Jesse	21
18	Allegiant	Roth, Veronica	20
19	The Impossible Knife of Memory	Anderson, Laurie Halse	20
20	A Long Way Gone	Beah, Ishmael	20
21	We Were Liars	Lockhart, E.	20
22	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian	Alexie, Sherman	19
23	Uglies	Westerfeld, Scott	18
24	The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy	Hattemer, Kate	18
25	The Islands at the End of the World	Aslan, Austin	17
26	Paper Towns	Green, John	17
27	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Chbosky, Stephen	17
28	The 5th Wave	Yancey, Richard	16
29	The Scorch Trials	Dashner, James	16
30	Divided We Fall	Reedy, Trent	15
31	Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future	King, A.S.	15
32	House of Hades	Riordan, Rick	15
33	Otherbound	Duyvis, Corinne	14
34	An Abundance of Katherines	Green, John	14
35	The Blood of Olympus	Riordan, Rick	14
36	Cinder	Meyer, Marissa	14
37	Four: a Divergent story	Roth, Veronica	14
38	Grasshopper Jungle	Smith, Andrew	14
39	Insurgent	Roth, Veronica	14
40	Speak	Anderson, Laurie Halse	14
41	Thirteen Reasons Why	Asher, Jay	14

Surprises: I continue to be surprised that books like The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), Stolen (2010), Uglies (2005), Thirteen Reasons Why (2007), Speak (2000) and just about any book by Rick Riordan continue to be in the top 50 books years after they were published. I think that there is a bit of a cult following for some of these books. They may also just be the books that students tell other students about. 

Not surprised: On the other hand I am not surprised that nearly all of John Green's book top the list. Girls come to the library just to read his books and they tell each other to read them. The Fault in Our Stars is the first book on the list that students had no ulterior motive to check out. It wasn't a summer reading book, it wasn't assigned by anyone, and it wasn't a Mock Printz selection. Students just wanted to read it.

Notes: I have multiple copies of most of the books but if the list is adjusted for copies, (circulations per book not title,) the two graphic novels would still come in #1 and 2, then Half Bad (14.5), I'll Give You the Sun (14), The Blood of Olympus (14), Divergent (14), Grasshopper Jungle (14), Four (14), and 100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith (13) would round out the list. With the exception of the Riordan book all of these books have a publication date of 2014, telling me that students really do want to read the new stuff, too, and are willing to wait in line, if necessary, to read it.


What books are you shocked/delighted to see on the list? What books are you shocked/delighted that are NOT on the list?

If you are a librarian, what were your top titles of this school year?

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