Public libraries in the United States are the destination of choice to checkout new books, without breaking the bank. Titles like Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and Paula Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train have huge waiting lists and this has prompted people to take a gander at new material. Today, lets look at the top books all over the US, mapped by city excluding the two above titles.
The time period for the checkout lists varied by library, but all were each library’s most recent figures. Most of this data comes from reports from July, others for August, and some spanned multiple recent months.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
