Top Circulating Books

“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man  

In the library, "circulation" means a lot of things.  What's sometimes called the "library card desk" is also known as "circulation".  When we look at a book's record, we count how many times it has checked out as its "circs". The library's collection floats (items checked out at one branch and returned at another stay at the branch at which they are returned), but its items circulate.

Are you ever curious about which titles get checked out the most in the library system? We've generated a couple of lists of the top circulating titles from the last three months.  We start with fiction:

	Top Circulating Fiction Titles
	December 2013	January 2014	February 2014
1	Never Go Back by Lee Child	Doing Hard Time by Stuart Woods	Never Go Back by Lee Child
2	W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton	Never Go Back by Lee Child	Inferno by Dan Brown
3	Inferno by Dan Brown	Inferno by Dan Brown	W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
4	Doing Hard Time by Stuart Woods	W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton	Sycamore Row by John Grisham
5	The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg	Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich	Doing Hard Time by Stuart Woods
6	The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith	Sycamore Row by John Grisham	The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
7	Sycamore Row by John Grisham	Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman	The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
8	Storm Front by John Sandford	And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini	Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich
9	12th of Never by James Patterson	The Cuckoo’s Calling by John Galbraith	King and Maxwell by David Baldacci
10	Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman	The English Girl by Daniel Silva	Second Watch by J.A. Jance

 

Here's non-fiction:

	Top Circulating Non-Fiction Titles
	December 2013	January 2014	February 2014
1	Fables by Bill Willingham*	Fables by Bill Willingham*	Fables by Bill Willingham*
2	Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore*	Killing Jesus by Bill O’Reilly	Killing Jesus by Bill O’Reilly
3	Y by Brian K. Vaughan*	Y by Brian K. Vaughan*	Wild by Cheryl Strayed
4	Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand	Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore*	Y by Brian K. Vaughan*
5	The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg	Wild by Cheryl Strayed	Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore*
6	Blink by Malcolm Gladwell	The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg	Zealot by Reza Aslan
7	Invincible by Robert Kirkman*	David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell	Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
8	Wild by Cheryl Strayed	Invincible by Robert Kirkman*	Jack of Fables by Bill Willingham*
9	Killing Jesus by Bill O’Reilly	Still Foolin’ ‘Em by Billy Crystal	The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond
10	House of Mystery by Matthew Sturges*	Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand	David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

Are you surprised by any of the titles? Have you read any of them? Would you consider reading them based on their popularity?


*graphic novel series