Shaker Heights Is Setting Of 2018's Most Popular E-Book

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH — Shaker Heights is the setting of 2018's most popular e-book, and second most popular audio book — "Little Fires Everywhere." Written by Celeste Ng in 2017, the novel continues to be extremely popular nationwide.

The data on e-book and audio book readership comes from OverDrive, the digital reading platform of choice for America's libraries. The company said it based its rankings of popular digital books on data from 90 percent of libraries.

"Little Fires Everywhere" tells the story of two families with different socio-economic backgrounds that end up coming together through their children. Actress Reese Witherspoon called it a tale of "motherhood." Witherspoon has led the charge on getting a mini-series of "Little Fires Everywhere" produced.

Ng's book was the most popular e-book of the year, based on library data. For audio books, it was the second most popular book, behind only "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

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The 10 most popular e-books of the year were:

1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press)
2. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
3. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (William Morrow)
4. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Ballantine Books)
5. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (Anchor)
6. Origin by Dan Brown (Anchor)
7. Educated by Tara Westover (Random House)
8. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
9. The Rooster Bar by John Grisham (Dell)
10. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (Henry Holt and Co.)

The 10 most popular audio books of the year were:

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Pottermore)
2. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press)
3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperAudio)
4. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Random House Audio)
5. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'engle (Listening Library)
6. Origin by Dan Brown (Random House Audio)
7. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Random House Audio)
8. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (Macmillan Audio)
9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (Pottermore)
10. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (HarperAudio)

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