Lists are courtesy Los Angeles Public Library, Central library downtown and 72 branches combined.
Library Top 10
Here are the top 10 books, CDs and DVDs loaned, the Los Angeles Public Library during August. (Physical books are now being listed as well as downloads, as the Library has begun a curbside delivery service, Library to Go, during the pandemic.)
Here are the results for January.
Top 10 Books
- A Promised Land, Barack Obama
- The Sentinel, Lee Child
- Rage, Bob Woodward
- The Searcher, Tana French
- Too Much and Never Enough, Mary Trump
- Disloyal: A Memoir, Michael Cohen
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
- Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
- All the Devils Are Here, Louise Penny
Top 10 DVDs:
- TenetMulan
- Unhinged
- Parasite
- The New Mutants
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
- The Irishman
- Antebellum
- The War With Grandpa
- A Rainy Day in New York
Top 10 E-Books:
- The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- A Promised Land, Barack Obama
- The Midnight Library: A Novel, Matt Haig
- Normal People: A Novel, Sally Rooney
- Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1: Bridgerton Series, Books 1-3, Julia Quinn
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
- Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Hunger Games Series, Book 0, Suzanne Collins
- The Guest List: A Novel, Lucy Foley
Top 10 Songs
- “Waiting on a War,” Foo Fighters
- “bad guy,” Vitamin String Quartet, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
- “Girl Like Me,” Jazmine Sullivan feat. H.E.R.
- “The Bandit,” Kings of Leon
- “Girls Like You,” Vitamin String Quartet, Adam Levine, Gian Stone, Henry Walter, Brittany 6 Hazzard, Jason Evigan
- “Good Days,” SZA
- “In My Blood,” Vitamin String Quartet, Scott Freidman, Shawn Mendes, Teddy Geiger
- “No Son of Mine,” Foo Fighters
- “thank u, next,” Vitamin String Quartet, Ariana Grande, Charles Anderson, Kimberly Kry Siuk, Michael Foster, Njomza Vitia, Taylor Mon
- “Strange (feat. Hillary Smith),” Hillary Smith, Kris Bowers, Celeste, Stephen Wrabel, Jamie Hartman