Top Circulating Books of 2023

We have compiled the data from our print and digital collections and here are the top circulating books of 2023!

1. A world of curiosities / Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in Louise Penny's beloved series.
2. Lessons in chemistry  / Bonnie Garmus: Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show.
3. Spare / Prince Harry: For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. 
4. The sleeping car porter / Suzette Mayr: When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair.
5. The last chairlift / John Irving: One of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.
6. Someone else's shoes / Jojo Moyes: A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from Jojo Moyes, author of "Me Before You" and "The Giver of Stars".
7. The four winds / Kristin Hannah: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all.
8. The last goodnight / Kat Martin: When Kade Logan said goodbye to his estranged wife eight years ago, he never thought it would be the last time he saw her alive. Now her car has been hauled out of a nearby lake and Kade is determined to track down the man who murdered her.
9. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo / Taylor Jenkins Reid: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
10. The Lincoln Highway / Amor Towles: The bestselling author of "A Gentleman in Moscow" and "Rules of Civility" and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.
11. A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles: From the author of "The Lincoln Highway" and "Rules of Civility," a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
12. The midnight library / Matt Haig: Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right.
13. Hello beautiful / Ann Napolitano: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him.
14. The myth of normal / Gabor Maté: From a most trusted and compassionate authority on stress, trauma, and mental well-being—a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.
15. Women talking / Miriam Toews: A novel based on real events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and raped in the night by what they were told were "ghosts" or "demons." Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events.