The Washington, D.C., public library released its lists of the most borrowed books of the year, with titles by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sally Rooney, and Michelle Zauner among the most popular with residents of the nation’s capital, DCist reports.
Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was the most popular fiction book among D.C. residents, with Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, coming in at No. 2.
Dav Pilkey’s children’s book Fetch-22, the eighth installment in his popular Dog Man series, was the third most borrowed fiction title, followed by Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway at No. 4 and Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land at No. 5.
Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart was the most checked out nonfiction book in D.C., followed by Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.
Coming in at No. 3 was Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, with Clint Smith’s National Book Critics Circle Award–winning How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America at No. 4 and Amanda Montell’s Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—soon to be a television docuseries—at No. 5.
The most borrowed e-books in D.C. were Zauner’s Crying in H Mart in nonfiction and Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me in fiction.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
