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Most-Borrowed Books

We asked Minnesota public libraries for their top-circulating titles. Here are the most-checked-out adult and teen books around the state.
ANOKA COUNTY
data for 2008-2010
Adult
1. Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
2. Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
3. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich

DAKOTA COUNTY
data for 2003-2010
Adult
1. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Juvenile
1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

DULUTH
data for 1999-2010
Adult
1. Duluth: An Illustrated History of the Zenith City by Glen N. Sandvik
2. Duluth: Sketches of the Past edited by Ryck Lydecker, Lawrence J. Sommer & Arthur Larsen
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

HENNEPIN COUNTY
data for 2010
Adult
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
3. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
Juvenile
1. The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

GREAT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY
(BENTON, MORRISON, SHERBURNE, STEARNS, TODD and WRIGHT COUNTIES)
data for 2004-2010
Adult
1. True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
2. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
3. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Juvenile
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
2. Summer of the Sea Serpent by Mary Pope Osborne
3. Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve by Mary Pope Osborne

RAMSEY COUNTY
data for 1985-2010
Adult
1. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
2. For My Daughters by Barbara Delinsky
3. The Last Resort by Dan Binchy
Juvenile
1. Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka
2. Arthur's Mystery Envelope by Marc Brown
3. The Not-So-Jolly Roger by Jon Scieszka

SAINT PAUL
data for 1999-2010
Adult
1. Saint Paul: The First 150 Years by Virginia Brainard Kunz
2. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

SCOTT COUNTY
data for 2010
Adult
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
3. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Juvenile
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

WASHINGTON COUNTY
data for 2004-2010
Adult
1. While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark
2. Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer
3. Bitter Sweet by LaVyrle Spencer

 

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    Book clubs are so hot

    By Audra Otto | Published Tue, Sep 22 2009 10:45 am

    Hip or not, if you belong to a book club, you are definitely trendy. With over a million book groups nationwide, it’s clear that book clubs are — to reference "Zoolander" — so hot right now.

    Five years ago, Rachel Jacobsohn, author of "The Reading Group Handbook" and founder of the Association of Book Group Readers and Leaders, estimated that 7 to 8 million Americans were involved in book clubs. And the popularity of reading groups has only grown since then.

    Increasingly, book club members are themselves the subjects of popular books. Not only have countless guides been published for book clubs, but novels, memoirs and mysteries about book clubs have surged, often landing on the best-seller lists.

    If the idea of reading a book about a book club isn’t too trendy for you, check out these titles.

    If you’ve already read one (or more), did it make you proud or embarrassed to be in a book club?

    Books about book clubs
    "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society." Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows. 2008.

    "The Girls Who Saw Everything." Sean Dixon. 2007.

    "Real Murders" (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries). Charlaine Harris. 2007.

    "The Romance Readers Book Club." Julie L. Cannon. 2007.

    "Summer Reading." Hilma Wolitzer. 2007.

    "Dinner with Anna Karenina." Gloria Goldreich. 2006.

    "González & Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License." María Amparo Escandón. 2005.

    "The Jane Austen Book Club." Karen Joy Fowler. 2004.

    "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons." Lorna Landvik. 2003.

    "The Bronxville Book Club." Pamela Hackett Hobson. 2003.

    "The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo." Paula Huntley. 2003.

    "Pure Fiction." Julie Highmore. 2003.

    "The Reading Group." Elizabeth Noble. 2003.

    "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books." Azar Nafisi. 2003.

    "Murder in Volume." D. R. Meredith. 2000.

    "Playing with Light." Beatriz Rivera. 2000.

    "The Book Club." Mary Alice Monroe. 1999.

    "Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading." Shireen Dodson. 1997.

    "And Ladies of the Club." Helen Hooven Santmyer. 1982.

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