What Were The Most Popular Books In Andover In 2020?

ANDOVER, MA — Andover loves Delia Owens and Michelle Obama: For the second year in a row, their books were near the top of Memorial Hall Library's most checked-out books.

But after leading the fiction and non-fiction categories in 2019, Owens' "Where the Crawdads Sing" and Obama's "Becoming" both trailed Ann Patchett's "The Dutch House," which came out in late 2019.

Clare Curran-Ball of Memorial Hall Library shared with Patch the library's 20 most popular titles last year. Repeat appearances are marked with an asterisk.

1. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
   
   Summary from the library catalog: "At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another."
   
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens*
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama*
4. Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover*
5. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
6. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
7. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
8. Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
9. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
10. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides*
11. A minute to Midnight by David Baldacci
12. Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
13. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
14. Walk the Wire by David Baldacci
15. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
16. The Lost Family by Jenna Blum
17. The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
18. The Red Lotus by Chris Bojhalian
19. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
20. The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey

Christopher Huffaker can be reached at 412-265-8353 or chris.huffaker@patch.com.