#library checkouts

[libraryjournal]

Top 10 Checkouts of All Time | The New York Public Library

Find out which books were checked out most since The New York Public Library opened its doors 125 years ago.

Ezra Jack Keats’s 1962 ground-breaking classic The Snowy Day tops the list with 485,583 checkouts. As part of its 125th anniversary celebrations, the library is also offering a limited-edition Snowy Day library card.

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

Library checkouts: Cowboys Edition, I guess. All I can say is that I have very varied tastes in fiction.

Point of interest: Even though they’re part of a western series, To the Far Blue Mountains and The Warrior’s Path are both set in the early 17th century, with the former taking place at least partly in Elizabethan England. In fact, the first four (chronological) books in the series are all set in that time period. Pretty neat.

Edit: Forgot one.

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

Library checkouts:

Moneyball - Michael Lewis

Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ‘70s - Dan Epstein

The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter R. Borneman

A Short History of Canada - Desmond Morton

@suburbanerd

Also had to put a hole on What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe because only one library in the entire system has it and of course it’s not the one in my town. D:

[televinita]

I haven't been to the library all month and only had two checkouts left (really only one; the other is only still here because I haven't finished a review yet), when I went today to pick up my one (1) hold. While there I decided I might as well check out a bunch of things "just for circ numbers" that I wasn't really looking to read right now - I am trying to focus on books I own, and eagerly anticipating several new spring releases I am in the first round of checkouts for that will HOPEFULLY be in circulation soon?? - but that I want to read at some point, so why not demonstrate interest now.

Except now I want to read all of them immediately, oops.

Some Kind of Famous - Ava Wilder: I have done no real research on this one or its author. I just haven't read much in the way of contemporary romance in the past few months and I kind of miss it, and I remembered this one went on my 'for later' shelf based on keywords ex-singer/songwriter, handyman, home renovation/fixer-upper.

An Irish Summer - Alexandra Paige: same backstory, but the setting is the main draw (working at a hostel as much as the "Ireland" bit).

How Bad Things Can Get - Darcy Coates: I literally have 3 of her books I own & haven't read, but you know what I don't have? A proper summer thriller of the "Influencers lured to an island for Murder Reasons," variety, a subgenre of which I have yet to tire. (upon closer inspection, this one appears to be "AN influencer + several hundred of his fans." Honestly, you know what, even better.)

This Much Country - Kristin Knight Pace: 7-year-old memoir that's been on my Goodreads TBR for 4 years, gotta watch that kind of thing on library shelves before they weed it. Basically a less-trashy Blair Braverman: woman who married & divorced young, worked a wild series of adventurous jobs all around the U.S. before moving to Alaska & falling in love with sled dogs (and also a better guy).

They Went Left - Monica Hesse: I've vaguely thought about reading this one, but low priority because I'm so burnt out on Holocaust stories. Only picked it today because I was looking for standalone 2010s YA to award Checkout Points to and...well, now I just want to lie down for 5 hours and read it, because I spent 2 hours this morning randomly finally rereading Briar Rose by Jane Yolen and I am so entirely in this exact headspace.

Out of Air - Rachel Reiss: yesss more underwater YA horror (it's been a year since I read Fractured Tide and have not stopped thinking about it since). One I've been toying with checking out the audiobook for on Libby while I wait for my requests, but it's the kind of story where I also kind of want the physical book in case I want to faster.

This Tiny Perfect World - Lauren Gibaldi: another less-popular contemporary YA. Not in the mood for it now but I want it eventually and constantly fear this will get weeded; it's 8 years old and always seems to be on the shelf.

The Rules for Disappearing - Ashley Elston: same for this one. Tension even higher because it's even older and this is the last copy left; the one above at least has 2. (also, for the record, I was interested in Ashley Elston before she was cool, a.k.a. publishing adult thrillers that get nominated in Goodreads Choice)

Running Past Dark - Han Nolan: ok actually this one I don't really want to read; I just saw "Han Nolan who's been publishing YA since the 90s, with a new book??" and blacked out. Upon closer inspection, the plot sound meh, and she's been hit or miss for me in the past. But, side note - this is from 2023, after a twelve year gap in publishing?!

A Box Full of Darkness - Simone St. James: and finally there's the book I actually went here to get, which is currently like 7th down the list of how excited I am now, but also the only one that I HAVE to read because waitlist. 😅

[televinita]

Library Data (2021 edition)

A rough estimate based on hand-curated stats of my checkouts for the past year, including both counties I’m registered in + any Interlibrary Loans:

Books: 112 E-audiobooks: 70* Audiobooks on CD: 5 DVDs: 10* CDs: 5

(click here for my 2020 data)

*This is what happens when I simultaneously get a Roku TV + access to 3 paid streaming services, and also connect my phone to WiFi in the house for the first time ever. In my defense, some of the audiobooks were only 2 hours and several were 4-6.

I may have missed a few books again, as on several occasions I checked out a handful I'd already read solely for the purpose of adding to their circulation numbers. (It's like taking the books for a walk, and you know what, more people should try this, especially if they don't want their favorite non-bestsellers weeded! One person can't prevent that, but 10 people checking out the same book in a year probably will. Group effort on faith, people.)

[willywaldo]

Top 10 Checkouts of All Time | The New York Public Library

Find out which books were checked out most since The New York Public Library opened its doors 125 years ago.

NYPL celebrates its 125th anniversary with the top 10 checkouts of all time Heading the list is Ezra Jack Keats’s 1962 ground-breaking classic, The Snowy Day.. .

[bookbagged]

Library checkouts. Three of them were the basis for movies and that did influence my decision. How many of these will be read? No idea. I definitely want to read the title novella in A River Runs Through It. Sleeper Spy is surprisingly interesting and I’m not really into spy novels (yet). Idaho is calling to me like a good book should.

[televinita]

Guess I am gonna make a Library Triage post! Except I’m not actually going to triage it, I’m just going to list everything to try and verbalize to myself exactly how many items I have checked out of two libraries right now, make sure I know where they are, and otherwise try to wrap my head around the sheer volume of Stories I have to keep me entertained this month, and maybe beyond.

COUNTY 1 1. I Am Still Alive - Alice Marshall: I can't shake the feeling this might be bland, like an adult novel, but I also feel like it's important I read it.

2. Now Is Everything - Amy Giles: I am about a chapter into this, since this and the above are up for renewal a week earlier than the rest. Unsure if it will be better than 3 stars, but I am hoping to get some shipper thrills while I wait for the story to be uncovered. Charlie seems very darling.

[edit: I am no gonna update this list for anything else, but I just wanna say that THIS ^ IS THE WORST IRONIC THING I HAVE EVER WRITTEN. The book was 1 star and I stayed up all night 2 nights in a row because of it, the first night because I couldn’t stop hate-reading until I finished and the second because I WAS STILL MAD AND COULDN’T STOP YELLING ABOUT IT and wow here I am about to lose a third night that way. fwiw Charlie did have darling attributes, but his readiness to have sex a month into their relationship cooled my feelings about him dramatically, and he was still the best part.]

3. Best Foot Forward - Joan Bauer: A quick sequel to the equally quick novel of hers I just read (Rules of the Road), but to my surprise I didn't want to continue the story right away. I will soon.

4. Hit the Road - Caroline B. Cooney: a road trip book I meant to read last spring, but thought the library had gotten rid of, because I forgot which county it belonged to. Might be too light and funny for my mood right now, or it might be delightfully similar to Rules of The Road.

5. All The Things You Are - Declan Hughes: this bears more than a passing resemblance to the ridiculous number of low-budget horror movies I have in my Netflix queue right now, and since I seem to be All About That Dark of late...

6. The Caged Graves - Dianna Salerni: this feels less dark than the above but potentially more spook, in a 19th century setting. WHY ARE THERE CAGES OVER THESE GRAVES.

7. California - Edan Lepucki: grabbed the audiobook to play in the car during the commute, because post-apocalytpic survivalist stories are my jam. Also checked out hardcover in order to continue reading at-will, because I am Very Bad at being patient and listening passively, so I'm almost halfway through it.

9. The Lost Queen of Crocker County - Elizabeth Lieknes: looks like an appealing Midwestern-set women's fiction novel; more importantly, the library has it in e-audiobook. Unfortunately, it can't be transferred to my MP3 player to play in the car like I planned, but at least it's something I can play at home while I clean. (Also grabbed in paperback in case I get impatient.)

10. Jungle - Yossi Ghinsberg: The memoir that the DanRad movie I recently raved about is based on. From what I can tell, the movie stuck pretty close to its source material, and since I was tempted to watch the movie twice I think I will verily enjoy the literary translation, perhaps understand some of the movie's limited-dialogue scenes a bit better.

11. Survivor! The Ultimate Game - Mark Burnett: I was SO excited to read this the day I checked it out, but was with my boyfriend and had to wait until the end of our date (what a burden, right?), and then Books I Felt Would Draw Less Attention At Work (a.k.a. Not Make Me Look Like The Obsessive TV Junkie I Am) jumped in front of it. Rest assured, though, I look forward to being able to lose myself in reliving the first season. Or living it for the first time, since I think I only ever saw the latter half of it at most. Need to return: a book and an audiobook Holding to complete Goodreads reviews: 2 additional books DVD: Tiger Eyes -- still need to watch this!

COUNTY 2 12. All Out of Pretty - Ingrid Palmer: The book itself is NOT AT ALL out of pretty, with appealingly extra-white pages and a square shape and semi-cloth cover instead of a dust jacket. I can't really tell what it's about except a poor girl, possibly involved w/ drugs? But the first few pages sucked me in so I want to find out.

13. Radical - E.M. Kokie: As you can see above, I seem to be a sudden mood to read survivalist-type stories

14. Letters to the Lost - Brigid Kemmerer : A hit on my "SHOW ME BOOKS WITH QUALITY MALE FRIENDSHIPS" order to Google, I am looking forward to it because it comes with a companion novel for the guy's friend, but I need some time to recover from my annoyance with Darius The Great Is Not Okay first (the other hit on that search, which did its job in that department well but failed at engaging me with anything else). Need to return: DVD, audiobook, book CD: Phoebe Bridgers, "Stranger in the Alps" (keeping it in the car)