Welcome to the 9th annual Bentley Library Top 10!
At the end of every academic year we rank the library’s most popular books, audiobooks, DVDs, and OverDrive downloadable ebooks and audiobooks based on the number of times they have been borrowed (excluding items placed on reserve for a class). These are our very own “Bentley Bestsellers” lists!
What stood out this year? Two older titles that inspired award-winning TV shows garnered renewed interest – Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Seventeen years after the publication of Angels and Demons, Dan Brown’s fifth installment in the Robert Langdon series, Origin, landed on three of our lists. Author A.J. Finn scored big with his thrilling debut novel, The Woman in the Window, while returning authors Jennifer Egan, John Grishman, Harlen Coben, and Lee Child proved to be as popular as ever. But perhaps most notable is the absence of Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis, a book that had appeared on five prior lists!
We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the reading and viewing habits of the Bentley community as much as we do, and that you’ll be inspired to borrow something that appears here. There were many ties in the rankings, so you have quite a few options.
Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2017-2018 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks, Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloaded eBooks and OverDrive Downloaded Audiobooks.
Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection
1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng [check availability]
2. BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty [check availability]
3. BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman [check availability]
4. (tie) TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT by Maria Semple [check availability]
4. (tie) THE TB12 METHOD: HOW TO ACHIEVE A LIFETIME OF SUSTAINED PEAK PERFORMANCE by Tom Brady [check availability]
4. (tie) ORIGIN by Dan Brown [check availability]
4. (tie) TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN by John Green [check availability]
8. (tie) WOOLLY: THE TRUE STORY OF THE QUEST TO REVIVE ONE OF HISTORY’S MOST ICONIC EXTINCT CREATURES by Ben Mezrich [check availability]
8. (tie) RICH PEOPLE PROBLEMS by Kevin Kwan [check availability]
8. (tie) BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by B. A. Paris [check availability]
8. (tie) MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan [check availability]
Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks
1. GETTING TO YES by Roger Fisher and William Ury [check availability]
2. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carneige [check availability]
3. THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR: A BOOK OF PRACTICAL COUNSEL by Benjamin Graham [check availability]
4. (tie) QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN’T STOP TALKING by Susan Cain [check availability]
4. (tie) HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS by J. D. Vance [check availability]
6. (tie) AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL LEARNING: WITH APPLICATIONS IN R by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani [check availability]
6. (tie) OPTIONS, FUTURES, AND OTHER DERIVATIVES by John Hull [check availability]
6. (tie) SECRETS OF POWER NEGOTIATING: INSIDE SECRETS FROM A MASTER NEGOTIATOR by Roger Dawson [check availability]
9. (tie) BOND MARKETS, ANALYSIS, AND STRATEGIES by Frank J. Fabozzi [check availability]
9. (tie) POWER CUES: THE SUBTLE SCIENCE OF LEADING GROUPS, PERSUADING OTHERS, AND MAXIMIZING YOUR PERSONAL IMPACT by Nick Morgan [check availability]
9. (tie) THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS by Michelle Alexander [check availability]
9. (tie) THINKING FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman [check availability]
Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [Compact Disc]
1. (tie) INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins [check availability]
1. (tie) DON’T LET GO by Harlan Coben [check availability]
1. (tie) LEONARDO DA VINCI by Walter Isaacson [check availability]
4. (tie) THE BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown [check availability]
4. (tie) ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE by Elizabeth Strout [check availability]
4. (tie) THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS by Arundhati Roy [check availability]
4. (tie) FIRE AND FURY INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE by Michael Wolff [check availability]
8. (tie) THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead [check availability]
8. (tie) MY OWN WORDS by Ruth Bader Ginsburg [check availability]
8. (tie) THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood [check availability]
8. (tie) SAME BEACH, NEXT YEAR by Dorothea Benton Frank [check availability]
8. (tie) ORIGIN by Dan Brown [check availability]
8. (tie) THE MIDNIGHT LINE by Lee Child [check availability]
Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection
1. WONDER WOMAN [check availability]
2. DUNKIRK [check availability]
3. THE BIG SICK [check availability]
4. BABY DRIVER [check availability]
5. (tie) BLADE RUNNER [check availability]
5. (tie) THE RED TURTLE [check availability]
5. (tie) THE BOSS BABY [check availability]
5. (tie) SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING [check availability]
9. (tie) GET OUT [check availability]
9. (tie) THE LOST CITY OF Z [check availability]
9. (tie) ATOMIC BLONDE [check availability]
9. (tie) MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS [check availability]
Top 10 Downloaded eBooks [OverDrive]
1. THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah [check availability]
2. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A. J. Finn [check availability]
3. (tie) A COLUMN OF FIRE: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH SERIES, BOOK 3 by Ken Follett [check availability]
3. (tie) THE MIDNIGHT LINE by Lee Child [check availability]
5. (tie) FIRE AND FURY: INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE by Michael Wolff [check availability]
5. (tie) PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee [check availability]
5. (tie) STILL ME by JoJo Moyes [check availability]
8. (tie) THE ROOSTER BAR by John Grisham [check availability]
8. (tie) TWO KINDS OF TRUTH by Michael Connelly [check availability]
10. (tie) AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones [check availability]
10. (tie) DON’T LET GO by Harlen Coben [check availability]
10. (tie) END GAME by David Baldacci [check availability]
10. (tie) FORCE OF NATURE by Jane Harper [check availability]
Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks [OverDrive]
1. MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan [check availability]
2. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate [check availability]
3. (tie) THE ROOSTER BAR by John Grisham [check availability]
3. (tie) WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Ta-Nehisi Coates [check availability]
5. (tie) THE POWER OF MOMENTS: WHY CERTAIN EXPERIENCES HAVE EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT by Chip Heath and Dan Heath [check availability]
5. (tie) THE RULES OF MAGIC by Alice Hoffman [check availability]
5. (tie) WHAT HAPPENED by Hillary Rodham Clinton [check availability]
8. WHEN – THE SCIENTIFIC SECRETS OF PERFECT TIMING by Daniel H. Pink [check availability]
9. (tie) FIRE AND FURY: INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE by Michael Wolff [check availability]
9. (tie) LEONARDO DA VINCI by Walter Isaacson [check availability]
9. (tie) PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee [check availability]
9. (tie) PRINCIPLES: LIFE AND WORK by Ray Dalio [check availability]
9. (tie) THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A. J. Finn [check availability]
