What Did You Love This Year?
What were the most popular books, audiobooks, and DVDs checked out in Arlington this year?
And what were the most popular holds?
Take a look at Arlington's Top-25 lists in 2017 (click or tap to expand the graphics):
Top 25 Checkouts in Adult Collections
Top Audiobooks
- Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
- The Whistler, by John Grisham
- The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
- Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
- Rogue Lawyer, by John Grisham
- Spanish (Latin American), the complete course. I, beginners, part A
- Commonwealth, by Anne Patchett
- How to Listen To and Understand Great Music, by Robert Greenberg
- The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
- Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
- The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel Brown
- French. Part B: the complete course I, Beginners
- Yes Please, by Amy Poehler
- The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
- French. Complete course I, Beginners
- A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin
- The Casual Vacancy, by J.K. Rowling
- Spanish (Latin American), the complete course. I, Beginners, part B
- Gray Mountain, by John Grisham
- Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
- The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo
- The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson
- Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult
Top Nonfiction
- Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Official Script, by Jack Thorne, Tiffany Thorne and J.K. Rowling
- When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
- Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
- The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, by Amy Schumer
- The Undoing Project: a Friendship that Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis
- Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen
- Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande
- Scrappy Little Nobody, by Anna Kendrick
- Thank You for being Late, by Thomas Friedman
- Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
- Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- Spark Joy, by Marie Kondo
- Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari
- Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Strangers in their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living, by Meik Wiking
- The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel Brown
- Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
- Option B, by Sheryl Sandberg
Top Fiction
- Commonwealth, by Anne Patchett
- The Whistler, by John Grisham
- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
- The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
- Truly Madly Guilty, by Liane Moriarty
- The Trespasser, by Tana French
- The Wrong Side of Goodbye, by Michael Connelly
- A Man Called Ove, by Fedrik Backman
- A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny
- Today Will be Different, by Maria Semple
- The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
- Night School, by Lee Child
- The Nest, by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
- The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
- The Girls, by Emma Cline
- Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley
- The Hopefuls, by Jennifer Close
- The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
- A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
- My name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout
- No Man's Land, by David Baldacci
- Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
- Into the Water, by Paula Hawkins
- Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult
- Turbo Twenty-Three: a Stephanie Plum novel, by Janet Evanovich
Top DVDs
- Bridge of spies*
- Manchester by the Sea
- Arrival*
- The Martian*
- The Big Short*
- Moonlight
- La La Land
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot*
- The Revenant
- Loving
- Brooklyn*
- Sully*
- A Man Called Ove*
- Hidden Figures*
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Ghostbusters
- Hell or High Water
- Deadpool
- Logan
- Florence Foster Jenkins*
- Jason Bourne*
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them*
- The Accountant*
- Fences*
- Inception
*Based on a book
Top YA DVDs
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children*
- Allegiant: Part 1*
- Pitch Perfect 2
- Star Wars Episode VII, The Force Awakens
- The Hunger Games*
- Insurgent*
- The Maze Runner*
- The Scorch Trials*
- Paper Towns*
- Captain America: the First Avenger*
- Ant-Man*
- Doctor Strange*
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind*
- Mockingjay: Part 1*
- The Duff*
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Marvel's The Avengers*
- Captain America: Civil War*
- Guardians of the Galaxy*
- The Simpsons: Season 3
- Divergent*
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl*
- Spider-Man
- The Karate Kid
*Based on a book
Top Holds
- Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
- A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
- The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- A Man Called Ove: a novel, by Fredrik Backman
- The Underground Railroad: a novel, by Colson Whitehead
- Hidden Figures (DVD)
- Lincoln in the Bardo: a novel, by George Saunders
- Arrival (DVD)
- Into the Water: a novel, by Paula Hawkins
- Commonwealth: a novel, by Ann Patchett
- La La Land (DVD)
- Manchester by the Sea (DVD)
- Moonlight (DVD)
- Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
- Camino Island: a novel, by John Grisham
- Fences (DVD)
- Moana (DVD)
- Little Fires Everywhere: a novel, by Celeste Ng
- Hacksaw Ridge (DVD)
- What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Loving (DVD)
- Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black women Mathematicians who Helped win the Space Race, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Lion (DVD)
- Homegoing: a novel, by Yaa Gyasi
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken
We cut the lists off at 25 for the sake of space and attempted readability in the graphs, but of course there were many more very popular books and films this year...
We look forward to finding out what makes your most-read and most-watched lists in 2018!
The graphic is hard to read. Can you please just list them?
Love to see the compilation, but it is too hard to read or print. Couldn’t you do a horizontal list?
Amanda and Mary,
You are both correct, we got carried away making graphs and did not initially lay this post out in a helpful manner.
Hopefully this version, complete with text lists, works much better (and should be ADA compliant as well).
And hopefully you will also bear with us as we continue to add catalog links to the lists… Because what use are the titles without links to the catalog?
Thanks for sharing this cool info!
I love these lists- its a great way to recap last year and plan for this year. The links will be much appreciated – and maybe the author?