BCCLS' Most Checked-Out Library Books Of 2019

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ – How many have you read?

The Bergen County Cooperative Library System (BCCLS) recently revealed what the most borrowed books were this year from its 77 member libraries in Bergen, Passaic, Essex and Hudson counties.

“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee was the most checked-out fiction book in Bergen County this year, while Michelle Obama’s memoir “Becoming” took the top spot for most popular nonfiction book.

Here are the full lists of top 20 circulated titles within the BCCLS system this year.

Fiction

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Run Away by Harlan Coben
• Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
• The Reckoning by John Grisham
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• The Witch Elm by Tana French
• The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
• Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand
• Juror #3 by James Patterson
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Long Road To Mercy by David Baldacci
• Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Nonfiction

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Cook Like a Pro by Ina Garten
• Fear by Bob Woodward
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• In Pieces by Sally Field
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• Maison by Ines De La Fressange/Marin Montagut
• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• Laura in the Kitchen by Laura Vitale
• Calypso by David Sedaris
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• 5 Ingredients by Jamie Oliver
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Dinner for Everyone by Mark Bittman
• Hell’s Princess by Harold Schechter
• American Cookie by Anne Byrn
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Cook 90 by David Tamarkin