As part of our annual tradition of bringing you the top checkouts of the year, we’ve compiled the list of the top 10 adult titles checked out in each borough with help from our friends at Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library. While each borough is different, it’s interesting to see what books are on multiple boroughs lists. Have you read any of these titles? Or are you adding them to your never-ending “to read” list?

The Bronx

1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
2. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
3. 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
4. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
5. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
6. The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born
7. The Affair by Danielle Steel
8. The Red Book by James Patterson and David Ellis
9. Win by Harlan Coben
10. Neighbors by Danielle Steel

Brooklyn

1. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
4. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
5. Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
6. Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
7. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
8. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
10. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Manhattan 

1. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
5. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
6. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
7. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
8. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman translated by Neil Smith
9. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
10. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Queens

1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
2. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
5. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
6. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
8. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
9. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman translated by Neil Smith
10. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Staten Island

1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
2. 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
3. Neighbors by Danielle Steel.
4. Legacy by Nora Roberts
5. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
6. Deadly Cross by James Patterson.
7. Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
8. The Red Book by James Patterson and David Ellis
9. The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born
10. The Affair by Danielle Steel

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