Monday, June 30, 2014

Top Circulating Children's and Young Adult Authors

“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 authors for kids and young adults in the last couple of months. If they are authors of a popular series or a currently trending title, we have noted that in brackets next to their name.

From April 2014:


Top Circulating Children’s Authors



Fiction
Non-Fiction


Dr. Seuss
Jim Davis [Garfield]
Mary Pope Osborne [Magic Tree House]
Allan Fowler
Cynthia Rylant [Henry & Mudge]
Elaine Landau [Your Pet…]
Daisy Meadows [Rainbow Magic]
Gail Gibbons
Eric Carle [The Very Hungry Caterpillar]
Simon Seymour [Simon Seymour’s…]
Marc Brown [Arthur]
Joanna Cole [Magic School Bus]
Mo Willems [Knuffle Bunny]
Jennifer L. Holm [Babymouse]
R. L. Stine [Goosebumps]
Jack Prelutsky [poetry]
Stan & Jan Berenstain [The Berenstain Bears]
Steve Parker [DK Eyewitness]
Geronimo Stilton
Sandra Markle
Carolyn Keene [Nancy Drew]
Hidenori Kusaka [Pokémon Adventures]
Ron Roy [A to Z Mysteries]
David A. Adler [Cam Jansen]
Alysa Capucilli [Biscuit]
Robert Gardner [science projects]
H. A. Rey [Curious George]
Salvatore Tocci [Experiments with…]
Laura Numeroff [If You Give A Mouse A Cookie]
David West Reynolds [Star Wars]
Erin Hunter [Warriors]
Ann Heinrichs
Bobby Lynn Maslen [Bob Books]
Stuart J. Murphy
Tomie DePaola [Strega Nona]
Darlene Stille
Jane Yolen
Melissa Stewart



From April 2014:


Top Circulating Young Adult Authors



Fiction
Non-Fiction


Suzanne Collins [The Hunger Games]
Masashi Kishimoto [Naruto]
P.C. Cast [House of Night]
Rumiko Takahashi [InuYasha]
Ted Dekker [Lost Books]
Tite Kubo [Bleach]
Melissa de la Cruz [Blue Bloods]
Brian Michael Bendis [Ultimate Spider-Man]
Stephenie Meyer [Twilight]
Hiromu Arakawa [Fullmetal Alchemist]
Lisa McMann [Visions]
Katsura Hoshino [D. Gray-Man]
Amanda Hocking [Watersong]
Naoko Takeuchi [Sailor Moon]
Kate Constable [Chanters of Tremaris]
Natsuki Takaya [Fruits Basket]
Kirsty McKay [Undead]
Toshiaki Iwashiro [Psyren]
Ellen Schreiber [Vampire Kisses]
Atsushi Ōkubo [Soul Eater]
Alyson Noël [Soul Seekers]
Rei Tōma [Dawn of the Arcana]
James Patterson [Witch & Wizard]
Kazuki Takahashi [Yu-Gi-Oh!]
Ellen Hopkins [novels in verse]
Dan Slott [The Superior Spider-Man]
Jackie M. Kessler [Riders of the Apocalypse]
Kazue Katō [Blue Exorcist]
Jessica Shirvington [Embrace]
Ken Akamatsu [Negima!]
Heather Brewer [Slayer Chronicles]
Christos Gage [Avengers  Academy]
Richelle Mead [Bloodlines]
Matsuri Hino [Vampire Knight]
Meg Cabot [Abandon]
Dana Hayward [Tsubasa]
Julie Halpern
Yana Toboso [Black Butler]
Barry Lyga [Archvillain]



From June 2014:


Top Circulating Authors



Children’s Fiction
Young Adult Fiction


Dr. Seuss
Suzanne Collins [The Hunger Games]
Mary Pope Osborne [Magic Tree House]
James Patterson [Witch & Wizard]
Eric Carle [The Very Hungry Caterpillar]
Veronica Roth [Divergent]
Cynthia Rylant [Henry & Mudge]
John Flanagan [Ranger’s Apprentice}
Daisy Meadows [Rainbow Magic]
Cassandra Clare [Infernal Devices]
Mo Willems [Knuffle Bunny]
Ellen Hopkins [novels in verse]
Marc Brown [Arthur]
Sara Shepard [Pretty Little Liars]
Carolyn Keene [Nancy Drew]
Richelle Mead [Bloodlines]
Geronimo Stilton
Joseph Delaney [The Last Apprentice]
Sue Bentley [Magic Puppy]
P. C. Cast [House of Night]
Laura Numeroff [If You Give A Mouse A Cookie]
Neal Shusterman [Unwind]
Rosemary Wells
Alyson Noël [Soul Seekers]
R. L. Stine [Goosebumps]
Darren Shan [Cirque du Freak]
Gertrude Chandler Warner [The Boxcar Children]
Markus Zusak [The Book Thief]
Megan McDonald [Judy Moody & Stink]
John Green [The Fault in Our Stars]
Stan & Jan Berenstain [The Berenstain Bears]
Meg Cabot [Abandon]
Erin Hunter [Warriors]
Scott Westerfeld [Uglies]
Jane O’Connor [Fancy Nancy]
Lisi Harrison [Clique]
Ron Roy [A to Z Mysteries]
Anthony Horowitz [Alex Rider]
David Adler [Cam Jansen]
Lauren Oliver [Delirium]


Dr. Seuss and Suzanne Collins are our clear winners, for now!