Top Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Reads at BCPL in August

Read any good books this summer? Baltimore County folks were clearly hitting the library, reflected in these checkout numbers. 

Tell us in comments: What was the best book you read this summer?

Following are the top adult fiction checkouts at the Baltimore County Public Library in August: 

1.     Inferno by Dan Brown,  1,246 checkout

2.     The hit by David Baldacci, 1,168 checkouts

3.     Second honeymoon by James Patterson, 1,082 checkouts

4.     12th of never by James Patterson, 991 checkouts

5.     Daddy's gone a hunting Mary Higgins Clark, 946 checkouts

6.     The storyteller by Jodi Picoult, 940 checkouts

7.     The heist by Janet Evanovich, 919 checkouts

8.     Six Years by Harlan Coben, 908 checkouts

9.     Sweet salt air by Barbara Delinsky, 897 checkouts

10.   Gone girl : a novel by Gillian Flynn, 884 checkouts

Following are the top adult non-fiction checkouts at the Baltimore County Public Library in August: 

1.     Proof of heaven: a neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife by Eben Alexander, 233 checkouts

2.     Let's explore diabetes with owls  by David Sedaris, 216 checkouts

3.     The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks  by Rebecca Skloot, 204 checkouts

4.     Dad is fat by Jim Gaffigan, 156 checkouts

5.     Cooked : a natural history of transformation by Michael Pollan, 148 checkouts

6.     Lost Baltimore by Gregory J. Alexander, 147 checkouts

7.     In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, 142 checkouts

8.     Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, 137 checkouts

9.     Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal by Mary Roach, 134 checkouts

10.   Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo, 132 checkouts