Our social media post on The Brooklyn Public Library’s most requested books of all time got a lot of attention, so we thought you’d enjoy a peek at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s most requested books of 2022. Are your favorites on the list? Are there books that will be added to your TBR* list? Any surprises?

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*TBR: To Be Read. 

2022’s Top Circulating Titles
from Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Adult Fiction: Print

Laura Dave’s addictive mystery/thriller novel made the top spot with 1,290 check-outs this year, with Amor Towles on her heels with 1,140.

1. Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel by Laura Dave
2. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
3. The Judge’s List by John Grisham
4. The Paris Apartment: A Novel by Lucy Foley
5. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
6. Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose
7. Apples Never Fall: A Novel by Liane Moriarty
8. Wish You Were Here: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
9. Verity by Colleen Hoover
10. Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr

Adult Fiction: Digital

Dave’s novel tops the digital circulation list as well — a top 10 dominated by female novelists — with 4,968 uses.

1. The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel by Laura Dave
2. Verity by Colleen Hoover
3. Apples Never Fall: A Novel by Liane Moriarty
4. Paris Apartment: A Novel by Lucy Foley
5. Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose
6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
8. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
9. It Ends with Us: A Novel by Colleen Hoover
10. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By Victoria Schwab

Adult Nonfiction: Print

571 Library cardholders checked out James Clear’s book on breaking bad habits, the list topper for print nonfiction this year.

1. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results : An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
2. Crying In H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
3. These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. Van Derkolk
5. 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
6. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown
7. Guinness World Records 2022
8. Finding Me by Viola Davis
9. Left on Tenth a Second Chance at Life: a Memoir by Delia Ephron
10. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper

Adult Nonfiction: Digital

With 1,010 downloads, Lori Gottlieb’s humorous take on a therapist in therapy kicked Atomic Habits out of the digital top spot.

1. Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
2. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
3. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown
4. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy
5. Crying In H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
6. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
7. Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
8. The Palace Papers: Inside The House Of Windsor—The Truth And The Turmoil by Tina Brown
9. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
10. Vanderbilt: The Rise And Fall Of An American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper

Other List Toppers

Top Young Adult, print: Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
Top Young Adult, digital: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Top Children’s, print: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by Jeff Kinney
Top Children’s, digital: Old School: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series, Book 10 by Jeff Kinney

Top Audiobook, physical: The Judge’s List by John Grisham
Top Audiobook, digital: The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel (unabridged) by Laura Dave

Top Graphic Novels: 1) Sisters by Raina Telgemeier and 2) Maus: a Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman

Top Mystery: Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose

Top Science Fiction: Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir

Top African American Fiction: Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett