Bentley Library Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks of 2019/20

It’s time for the 11th annual Bentley Library Top 10! 

At the end of every academic year we tabulate 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!

This year, the results for physical materials (books, DVDs, and CD audiobooks) are based on circulation data ending on March 17, the last the day the library was open before the COVID-19 shutdown. We hope that our doors will be open again soon, but in the meantime please explore the OverDrive e-book and audiobook options we offer!

This is your chance to see what Bentley students, faculty and staff have been reading, watching, and listening to. We hope you enjoy this annual tradition as much as we do, and that the lists help you find new books to explore.

Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2019-2020 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks (compact disc), Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloaded eBooks and OverDrive Downloaded Audiobooks.

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

1. BECOMING by Michelle Obama [check availability]

2. THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett [check availability]

3. (tie) CHANCES ARE… by Richard Russo [check availability]

3. (tie) EDUCATED: A MEMOIR by Tara Westover [check availability]

3. (tie) INVESTED: HOW WARREN BUFFETT AND CHARLIE MUNGER TAUGHT ME TO MASTER MY MIND, MY EMOTIONS, AND MY MONEY (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY DAD) by Danielle Town [check availability]

3. (tie) OLIVE, AGAIN by Elizabeth Strout [check availability]

3. (tie) THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King [check availability]

3. (tie) THE OUTSIDER by Stephen King [check availability]

9. (tie) BLOWOUT: CORRUPTED DEMOCRACY, ROGUE STATE RUSSIA, AND THE RICHEST, MOST DESTRUCTIVE INDUSTRY ON EARTH by Rachel Maddow [check availability]

9. (tie) CATCH AND KILL: LIES, SPIES, AND A CONSPIRACY TO PROTECT PREDATORS by Ronan Farrow [check availability]

9. (tie) CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert [check availability]

9. (tie) DISAPPEARING EARTH by Julia Phillips [check availability]

9. (tie) GOOD RIDDANCE by Elinor Lipman [check availability]

9. (tie) LOONSHOTS: HOW TO NURTURE THE CRAZY IDEAS THAT WIN WARS, CURE DISEASES, AND TRANSFORM INDUSTRIES by Safi Bahcall [check availability]

9. (tie) ME by Elton John [check availability]

9. (tie) ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong [check availability]

9. (tie) OUTFOX by Sandra Brown [check availability]

9. (tie) SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid [check availability]

9. (tie) THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS by Bill Bryson [check availability]

9. (tie) THE CEO NEXT DOOR: THE 4 BEHAVIORS THAT TRANSFORM ORDINARY PEOPLE INTO WORLD-CLASS LEADERS by Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell, with Tahl Raz [check availability]

9. (tie) THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern [check availability]

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

1. GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN by Roger Fisher and William Ury [check availability]

2.  (tie) HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carneige [check availability]

2. (tie) THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR by Benjamin Graham [check availability]

4. THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen R. Covey [check availability]

5. (tie) LIAR’S POKER: RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET by Michael Lewis [check availability]

5. (tie) THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]

5. (tie) THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman [check availability]

8. (tie) A BETTER MAN by Louise Penny [check availability]

8. (tie) BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP by John Carreyrou [check availability]

8. (tie) CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC by Claudia Rankine [check availability]

8. (tie) RICH DAD, POOR DAD by Robert Kiyosaki [check availability]

8. (tie) THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK: A COUNTERINTUITIVE APPROACH TO LIVING A GOOD LIFE by Mark Manson [check availability]

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [Compact Disc]

1. (tie) A BETTER MAN by Louise Penny [check availability]

1. (tie) A MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT by David Baldacci [check availability]

1. (tie) BLUE MOON by Lee Child [check availability]

1. (tie) COURT OF LIES by Gerry Spence [check availability]

1. (tie) THE GIRL WHO LIVED TWICE by David Lagercrantz [check availability]

6. (tie) AMBUSH by James Patterson and James O. Born [check availability]

6. (tie) BECOMING by Michelle Obama [check availability]

6. (tie) DARK SACRED NIGHT by Michael Connelly [check availability]

6. (tie) LADY IN THE LAKE by Laura Lippman [check availability]

6. (tie) OUTFOX by Sandra Brown [check availability]

6. (tie) THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS by Bill Bryson [check availability]

6. (tie) THE CORNWALLS ARE GONE by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois [check availability]

6. (tie) THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett [check availability]

 

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

1. YESTERDAY [check availability]

2. ROCKETMAN [check availability]

3. (tie) BOOKSMART [check availability]

3. (tie) THE FAREWELL [check availability]

5. (tie) AMAZING GRACE [check availability]

5. (tie) US [check availability]

5. (tie) ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD [check availability]

5. (tie) THE GODFATHER, PART 2 [check availability]

9. (tie) JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM [check availability]

9. (tie) THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO [check availability]

 

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks [OverDrive]

1. TALKING TO STRANGERS: WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]

2. (tie) THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes [check availability]

2. (tie) OLIVE, AGAIN by Elizabeth Strout [check availability]

4. (tie) THE GUARDIANS by John Grisham [check availability]

4. (tie) THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King [check availability]

6. (tie) THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett [check availability]

6. (tie) THE NIGHT FIRE by Michael Connelly [check availability]

6. (tie) THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood [check availability]

9. (tie) THE BOY FROM THE WOODS by Harlan Coben [check availability]

9. (tie) ROYAL HOLIDAY by Jasmine Guillory [check availability]

 

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks [OverDrive]

1. TALKING TO STRANGERS: WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]

2. THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett [check availability]

3. THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes [check availability]

4. (tie) RED AT THE BONE by Jacqueline Woodson [check availability]

4. (tie) THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood [check availability]

6. A BETTER MAN by Louise Penny [check availability]

7. (tie) AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins [check availability]

7. (tie) THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS by Bill Bryson [check availability]

7. (tie) THE GUARDIANS by John Grisham [check availability]

7. (tie) THE INFINITE GAME by Simon Sinek [check availability]

7. (tie) THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET: HOW JIM SIMONS LAUNCHED THE QUANT REVOLUTION by Gregory Zuckerman [check availability]

7. (tie) THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY by Alix E. Harrow [check availability]

 

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Bentley Library Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks of 2018/19

It’s time for the 10th annual Bentley Library Top 10! 

At the end of every academic year we tabulate 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!

This year nonfiction scored big, claiming six spots in the Popular Reading ranking, a list typically dominated by fiction. Michelle Obama’s biography Becoming and Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover were especially popular. On the fiction side, new releases by perennially popular authors Liane Moriarty, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, and Louise Penny made appearances.

This is your chance to see what Bentley students, faculty and staff have been reading, watching, and listening to. We hope you enjoy this annual tradition as much as we do and that you are inspired to pick up a new book or film. As always, there were many ties in the rankings, so you have quite a few options.

Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2018-2019 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks (compact disc), Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloaded eBooks and OverDrive Downloaded Audiobooks.

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

1. BECOMING by Michelle Obama [check availability]

2. EDUCATED: A MEMOIR by Tara Westover [check availability]

3. NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty [check availability]

4. (tie) THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah [check availability]

4. (tie) THE RECKONING by John Grisham [check availability]

4. (tie) WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens [check availability]

7. (tie) 21 LESSONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY by Yuval Noah Harari [check availability]

7. (tie) A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult [check availability]

7. (tie) ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson [check availability]

7. (tie) FEAR: TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Bob Woodward [check availability]

7. (tie) THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

1.  HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carneige [check availability]

2. (tie) FREAKONOMICS by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner [check availability]

2. (tie) THINKING FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman [check availability]

4. LIAR’S POKER by Michael Lewis [check availability]

5. (tie) BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP by John Carreyrou [check availability]

5. (tie) PRINCIPLES: LIFE AND WORK by Ray Dalio [check availability]

7. (tie) AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL LEARNING: WITH APPLICATIONS IN R by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani [check availability]

7. (tie) MOSTLY HARMLESS ECONOMETRICS: AN EMPIRICIST’S COMPANION by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke [check availability]

7. (tie) MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS by Joseph F. Hair, Jr. [check availability]

7. (tie) RICH DAD, POOR DAD by by Robert T. Kiyosaki [check availability]

7. (tie) THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [Compact Disc]

1. (tie) BECOMING by Michelle Obama [check availability]

1. (tie) EDUCATED: A MEMOIR by Tara Westover [check availability]

1. (tie) THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTAWAY by Ruth Ware [check availability]

4. (tie) THERE, THERE by Tommy Orange [check availability]

4. (tie) A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult [check availability]

4. (tie) COURT OF LIES by Gerry Spence [check availability]

4. (tie) IN PIECES by Sally Field [check availability]

4. (tie) KINGDOM OF THE BLIND by Louise Penny [check availability]

4. (tie) ROBERT B. PARKER’S COLORBLIND by Reed Farrel Coleman [check availability]

4. (tie) ROBIN by David Itzkoff [check availability]

4. (tie) THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER by Kate Morton [check availability]

4. (tie) THE ENGLISH WIFE by Lauren Willig [check availability]

4. (tie) ORIGIN by Dan Brown [check availability]

4. (tie) THE FORBIDDEN DOOR by Dean Koontz [check availability]

4. (tie) THE RECKONING by John Grisham [check availability]

4. (tie) THE WOMAN LEFT BEHIND by Linda Howard [check availability]

4. (tie) UNSHELTERED by Barbara Kingsolver [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

1. OCEAN’S EIGHT [check availability]

2. TAG [check availability]

3. CRAZY RICH ASIANS [check availability]

4. BOOK CLUB [check availability]

5. (tie) AVENGERS, INFINITY WAR [check availability]

5. (tie) BLACKKKLANSMAN [check availability]

5. (tie) LEAVE NO TRACE [check availability]

5. (tie) WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? [check availability]

9. (tie) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY [check availability]

9. (tie) JURASSIC WORLD, FALLEN KINGDOM [check availability]

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks [OverDrive]

1. BECOMING by Michelle Obama [check availability]

2. NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty [check availability]

3. A SIMPLE FAVOR by Darcey Bell [check availability]

4. ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Griffin [check availability]

5. CLOCK DANCE by Anne Tyler [check availability]

6. A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult [check availability]

7. THE RECKONING by John Grisham [check availability]

8. (tie) THE FIFTH RISK by Michael Lewis [check availability]

8. (tie) KINGDOM OF THE BLIND by Louise Penny [check availability]

8. (tie) UNSHELTERED by Barbara Kingsolver [check availability]

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks [OverDrive]

1. BECOMING by Michelle Obama [check availability]

2. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens [check availability]

3. (tie) NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty [check availability]

3. (tie) READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline [check availability]

5. (tie) US AGAINST YOU by Fredrik Backman [check availability]

5. (tie) BRING ME BACK by B. A. Paris [check availability]

5. (tie) CLOCK DANCE by Anne Tyler [check availability]

5. (tie) THE WITCH ELM by Tana French [check availability]

9. ROBIN by David Itzkoff [check availability]

10. (tie) STILL LIFE by Louise Penny [check availability]

10. (tie) AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING by Hank Green [check availability]

10. (tie) TIME’S CONVERT by Deborah Harkness [check availability]

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Bentley Library Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks of 2017/18

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]

 

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Bentley Library Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks of 2016/17

Bentley Library Top 10Welcome to the 8th annual Bentley Library Top 10! 

At the end of every academic year we query the library’s circulation system to rank the library’s most popular books, audiobooks, DVDs and OverDrive downloadable books based on the number of times they have been borrowed (excluding items placed on reserve for a class). Think of these as the library’s very own “bestseller” lists!

This year you’ll find a handful of titles that were popular across multiple formats. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult,  Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Today Will be Different by Maria Semple, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, and The Whistler by John Grisham all ranked on the book, eBook and digital audiobook lists.

John Brooks’s book Business Adventures was published back in 1969, but it just made its first appearance in our Top 10 two years after Bill Gates named it his favorite business book. And making a remarkable fifth appearance on the most circulated books list is Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis! It’s a little unusual to not have any television series place in the Popular DVD rankings (not even Game of Thrones!), but what’s not surprising is that movies based on books scored big.

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 even more to choose from.

Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2016-2017 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

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

  • 1. LIAR’S POKER: RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET by
  • Michael Lewis [check availability]
  • 2. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carneige [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR: A BOOK OF PRACTICAL COUNSEL by Benjamin Graham
  • [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL LEARNING: WITH APPLICATIONS IN R by
  • Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie & Robert Tibshirani [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE: RESTORING THE CHARACTER ETHIC by
  • Stephen R. Covey [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) GETTING TO YES by Roger Fisher and William Ury [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS by Carol S. Dweck [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) FAST FOOD NATION: THE DARK SIDE OF THE ALL-AMERICAN MEAL by Eric Schlosser
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) BUSINESS ADVENTURES by John Brooks [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS by J.D. Vance
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP by Marie Kondo [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944: THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE OF WORLD WAR II by
  • Stephen E. Ambrose [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) ELON MUSK: TESLA, SPACEX, AND THE QUEST FOR A FANTASTIC FUTURE by
  • Ashlee Vance [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) INTRODUCTORY TIME SERIES WITH R by Paul S.P. Cowpertwait & Andrew V. Metcalfe
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) RECLAIMING CONVERSATION: THE POWER OF TALK IN A DIGITAL AGE by
  • Sherry Turkle [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS by Ted Chiang [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) THE 48 LAWS OF POWER by Robert Greene [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) THE LEAN STARTUP by Eric Ries [check availability]

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [Compact Disc]

 

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

 

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks [OverDrive]

 

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks [OverDrive]

 

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Bentley Library Top 10 Books, DVDs & Audiobooks for 2015/16

If it’s May, it’s time for the Bentley Library Top 10!

top10-2015-2016At the end of every academic year we query the library’s circulation system to rank the library’s most popular books, audiobooks, DVDs and OverDrive downloadable books based on the number of times they have been borrowed. (Course reserves are excluded from the reports.)

This year the Bentley community favored Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and John Grisham’s Rogue Lawyer, both of which made appearances on the book, audiobook and OverDrive lists. Remarkably, writer Michael Lewis had three different books in the rankings – Liar’s Poker, Flash Boys and The Big Short – and as an added bonus the movie adaptation of The Big Short scored a spot on the top DVDs list. The only other author to match Lewis’ popularity was the prolific James Patterson, although Patterson didn’t do it all on his own… Two of the three Patterson titles that appear below were co-authored – The Murder House (with David Ellis) and 14th Deadly Sin (with Maxine Paetro).

This is the 7th year that we have compiled our library’s “bestsellers” lists. We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the reading and viewing habits of the Bentley community as much as we do.

Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2015-2016 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks, Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloadable eBooks and OverDrive Downloadable Audiobooks. With so many ties in this year’s rankings, you have even more to choose from!

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

  • 1. GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN
  • by Roger Fisher and William Ury [check availability]
  • 2. LIAR’S POKER: RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET
  • by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carneige
  • [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. Salinger [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis
  • [check availability]
  • 6. (tie) AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL LEARNING: WITH APPLICATIONS IN R
  • by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie & Robert Tibshirani
  • [check availability]
  • 6. (tie) OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
  • 8. (tie) TIME SERIES ANALYSIS: WITH APPLICATIONS IN R by Jonathan D. Cryer &
  • Kung-Sik Chan [check availability]
  • 8. (tie) FLASH BOYS: A WALL STREET REVOLT by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  • 8. (tie) RICH DAD, POOR DAD: WHAT THE RICH TEACH THEIR KIDS ABOUT MONEY
  • – THAT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS DO NOT by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [Compact Disc]

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks (OverDrive)

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks (OverDrive)

View previous Bentley Library Top 10 lists:

Enjoy!

Bentley Library Top 10 Books, DVDs & Audiobooks, 2014/15

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Are you one of those people who looks around to see what other people are reading on the train? Are you curious to know which movies and TV shows your fellow colleagues and students are watching? Have you been considering trying out an audiobook, but would like a recommendation? If so, you will appreciate the 6th annual Bentley Library Top 10!

Every May we query the library’s circulation system to rank the library’s most popular books, audiobooks, DVDs and OverDrive downloadable books based on the number of times they have been borrowed during the academic year (excluding any items placed on reserve for a class). With so many ties in this year’s rankings, you have even more to choose from.

Compiling the library’s “bestsellers” lists is one of our favorite activities; we hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2014-2015 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks, Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloadable eBooks and OverDrive Downloadable Audiobooks:

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

  • 1. FLASH BOYS: A WALL STREET REVOLT by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  • 2. VEGAN SOUL KITCHEN: FRESH HEALTHY AFRICAN AMERICAN CUISINE
  • by Bryant Terry [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN
  • by Roger Fisher and William Ury [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) WOMEN AND MADNESS by Phyllis Chesler [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) APPLYING UML AND PATTERNS: AN INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED
  • ANALYSIS AND DESIGN AND ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT by Craig Larman
  • [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE: A MANAGERS GUIDE TO KNOWING WHAT THE
  • NUMBERS REALLY MEANY by Karen Berman and Joe Knight [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN STOCKS: A WINNING SYSTEM IN GOOD TIMES
  • OR BAD by William J. O’Neil [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER AND ITS SPECTRUM: A LIFE SPAN
  • APPROACH edited by Eric A. Storch and Dean McKay [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THE MAGICIANS by Lev Grossman [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky
  • [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THINKING FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) UNBROKEN: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE
  • AND REDEMPTION by Laura Hillenbrand [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [CD and Playaway]

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

*Note: the most popular TV series based on total checkouts for all episodes of the series were (1) GAME OF THRONES, (2) HOUSE OF CARDS, (3) HOMELAND and (4) THE WALKING DEAD.

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks (OverDrive)

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks (OverDrive)

View previous Bentley Library Top 10 lists:

2009/10   |    2010/11   |   2011/12  |   2012/13   |   2013/14

Enjoy!

Our Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks, 2013/2014

top10-2013-2014If you’ve ever wondered what the Bentley University community is reading, watching, and listening to, then we have the lists for you! Our 5th annual Bentley Library Top 10 details the library’s most popular books, audiobooks and DVDs based on the number of times they have been borrowed during the academic year (excluding any items placed on reserve for a class). There were many ties in the rankings this year, giving you even more to choose from.

This year G. R. R. Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice series (“Game of Thrones” series) dominated the book, audiobook and DVD lists. Books that saw movie releases this year were very popular, with The Book Thief, The Fault in Our Stars, Ender’s Game, The Wolf of Wall Street and Divergent all appearing in our Top 10 book lists. Remarkably, four books by Malcolm Gladwell appear on the lists, including a fifth consecutive appearance by The Outliers: The Story of Success.

Compiling the Top 10 lists is one of our favorite annual activities; we hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2013-2014 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks, Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloadable eBooks and OverDrive Downloadable Audiobooks:

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

  • 1. (tie) SEEING THE ELEPHANT: UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION FROM TRUNK
  • TO TAIL by Peter Marber [check availability]
  • 1. (tie) OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
  • 1. (tie) THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR: THE CLASSIC TEXT ON VALUE INVESTING
  • by Benjamin Graham [check availability]
  • 4. LIAR’S POKER : RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET
  • by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) BIG DATA: A REVOLUTION THAT WILL TRANSFORM HOW WE LIVE, WORK,
  • AND THINK by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET by Jordan Belfort [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) ENDER’S GAME by Orson Scott Card [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) LEAN IN: WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD by Sheryl Sandberg
  • [check availability]
  • 9. (tie) BOND MARKETS, ANALYSIS, AND STRATEGIES by Frank J. Fabozzi
  • [check availability]
  • 9. (tie) FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN
  • SIDE OF EVERYTHING by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner [check availability]
  • 9. (tie) MOCKINGJAY by Suzanne Collins[check availability]
  • 9. (tie) PEOPLE SKILLS: HOW TO ASSERT YOURSELF, LISTEN TO OTHERS,
  • AND RESOLVE CONFLICTS by Robert Bolton [check availability]
  • 9. (tie) THE 48 LAWS OF POWER by Robert Greene [check availability]
  • 9. (tie) THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak [check availability]
  • 9. (tie) ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert M. Pirsig
  • [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [CD and Playaway]

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks (OverDrive)

*check availability by logging-in at http://bentleydownload.lib.overdrive.com/

  • 1. A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE SERIES (combined checkouts for the series) by
  • George R. R. Martin
  • 2. GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
  • 3. DIVERGENT TRILOGY (combined checkouts for the series) by Veronica Roth
  • 4. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY TRILOGY (combined checkouts for the series) by
  • E. L. James
  • 5. (tie) ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: MY YEAR IN A WOMEN’S PRISON by
  • Piper Kerman
  • 5. (tie) THE DINNER by Herman Koch
  • 5. (tie) THE CUCKOO’S CALLING by Robert Galbraith
  • 5. (tie) INFERNO by Dan Brown
  • 9. (tie) AMERICAN WIFE by Curtis Sittenfeld
  • 9. (tie) THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks (OverDrive)

*check availability by logging-in at http://bentleydownload.lib.overdrive.com/

  • 1. THE HUNGER GAMES SERIES, (combined checkouts for the series) by
  • Suzanne Collins
  • 2. (tie) A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE SERIES (combined checkouts for the series) by
  • George R. R. Martin
  • 3. BOSSYPANTS by Tina Fey
  • 4. (tie) THE LEAN STARTUP: HOW TODAY’S ENTREPRENEURS USE CONTINUOUS
  • INNOVATION TO CREATE RADICALLY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES by Eric Ries
  • 4. (tie) THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman
  • 5. (tie) THE BUY SIDE: A WALL STREET TRADER’S TALE OF SPECTACULAR EXCESS
  • by Turney Duff
  • 5. (tie) LEAN IN: WOMEN, WORK, AND THE WILL TO LEAD by Sheryl Sandberg
  • 5. (tie) WE ARE WATER by Wally Lamb
  • 8. (tie) ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
  • 8. (tie) DRIVE: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES US by Daniel Pink
  • 8. (tie) FALL OF GIANTS: THE CENTURY TRILOGY, BOOK 1 by Ken Follett
  • 8. (tie) QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN’T STOP
  • TALKING by Susan Cain
  • 8. (tie) SERIOUSLY — I’M KIDDING by Ellen DeGeneres
  • 8. (tie) BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING by Malcolm Gladwell
  • 8. (tie) OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcolm Gladwell
  • 8. (tie) THE TIPPING POINT : HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE by
  • Malcolm Gladwell
  • 8. (tie) HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE? by Clayton M. Christensen,
  • James Allworth, & Karen Dillon
  • 8. (tie) ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: MY YEAR IN A WOMEN’S PRISON by
  • Piper Kerman
  • 8. (tie) DAD IS FAT by Jim Gaffigan
  • 8. (tie) THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE by Neil Gaiman
  • 8. (tie) THE CUCKOO’S CALLING by Robert Galbraith
  • 8. (tie) AFTER I’M GONE by Laura Lippman

Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks

Move over New York Times bestseller list, it’s time for the annual Bentley Library Top 10! Each May we query our database to find out which books, audiobooks and DVDs have circulated the most times during the academic year (excluding any items placed on reserve for a class).  There are many ties in the rankings this year, so each of the lists includes more than ten titles, giving you even more to choose from.

This year’s most popular fiction included top10-2012-2013blockbusters by J. K. Rowling, Gillian Flynn and E. L. James. In nonfiction, Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail appeared on the both the books and audiobooks lists.  Remarkably, Malcolm Gladwell’s The Outliers landed in the Top 10 for a fourth consecutive year!

Books that were released as movies fared well, including Life of Pi, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Hunger Games and Cloud Atlas. The Top 10 DVDs list is an interesting mix of TV series and movies, from Downton Abbey to The Game of Thrones and The Avengers to The Iron Lady.

Compiling the Top 10 lists is one of our favorite annual activities; we hope you enjoy them as much as we do!  Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2012-2013 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks, Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloadable eBooks and OverDrive Downloadable Audiobooks:

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [CD and Playaway]

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks (OverDrive)
*check availability by logging-in at http://ezp.bentley.edu/OverDrive/bentleyu

  • 1.     (tie) THE ART FORGER by B. A. Shaprio
  • 1.     (tie) CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell
  • 1.     (tie) LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel
  • 1.     (tie) LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane
  • 5.     (tie) THE 19TH WIFE by David Ebsershoff
  • 5.     (tie) THE END OF MONEY by David Wolman
  • 5.     (tie) THE RACKETEER by John Grisham
  • 5.     (tie) WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAM? by Hedrick Smith
  • 9.     (tie) THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT by Mark Haddon
  • 9.     (tie) THE DINNER by Herman Koch
  • 9.     (tie) THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB by Will Schwalbe
  • 9.     (tie) HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford
  • 9.     (tie) THE WORLD WE FOUND by Thrity Umrigar

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks (OverDrive)
*check availability by logging-in at http://ezp.bentley.edu/OverDrive/bentleyu

  • 1.     SNOOP: WHAT YOUR STUFF SAYS ABOUT YOU by Sam Gosling
  • 2.     (tie) FALL OF GIANTS by Ken Follett
  • 2.     (tie) THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK by Matthew Quick
  • 2.     (tie) A WEEK IN WINTER by Maeve Binchy
  • 2.     (tie) WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks
  • 6.     (tie) ANTIFRAGILE: THINGS THAT GAIN FROM DISORDER by Nassim Nicholas
  • Taleb
  • 6.     (tie) ARGO by Antonio Mendez
  • 6.     (tie) THE ART FORGER by B. A. Shapiro
  • 6.     (tie) BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS by Kurt Vonnegut
  • 6.     (tie)  THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA by Lauren Weisberger
  • 6.     (tie) THE FORGOTTEN by David Baldacci
  • 6.     (tie) THE RACKETEER by John Grisham
  • 6.     (tie) HEADS IN BEDS; A RECKLESS MEMOIR OF HOTELS, HUSTLES AND
  • SO-CALLED HOSPITALITY by Jacob Tomsky