From your favorite fiction authors to Frozen II, Orange County Library System customers read a surprisingly diverse selection of titles, DVDs and CDs in 2021. Here were the most popular checkouts from across the system this year:
Adult Fiction
A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Return by Nicholas Sparks
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
JUV Fiction
Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney
Roll With It by Jamie Sumner
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
The Unteachables by Gordon Korman
Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
Young Adult Fiction
Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Legend by Marie Lu
Adult Nonfiction
A Promise Land by Barak Obama
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Talking to Strangers: What we Should Know About People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
JUV Nonfiction
Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey
Dog Man Grime and Punishment by Dav Pilkey
Dog Man for Whole the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey
Dog Man Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey
Dog Man Fetch-22 by Dav Pilkey
TOP CIRCULATED DVDs
TOP MUSIC CDs
Now That’s What I call Music 74 (Hits from 2009)
Evermore by Taylor Swift
Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish
Harmony by Josh Groban
Now That’s What I Call Music 73 (Hits from 2020)