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 September.
Top 10 Books
- Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, Mary Trump
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins
- A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump, Phillip Rucker
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Ronan Farrow
- All the Devils Are Here, Louise Penny
- Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
- Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
- Becoming, Michele Obama
Top 10 DVDs:
- 1917
- Knives Out
- Joker
- Ford v Ferrari
- Jojo Rabbit
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Midway
- Jumanji: The Next Level
- Uncut Gems
- Bombshell
Top 10 E-Books:
- The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett
- How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
- Book of the Little Axe, Lauren Francis-Sharma
- Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel, Celeste Ng
- Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
- Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most
- Dangerous Man, Mary L. Trump
- The Guest List: A Novel, Lucy Foley
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Lori Gottlieb
Top 10 Songs
- “Letter To You,” Bruce Springsteen
- “Hot Stuff,” Kygo, Donna Summer
- “Midnight Sky,” Miley Cyrus
- “More Love,” Sara Bareilles
- “Love Looks Better,” Alicia Keys
- “Lasting Lover,” Sigala & James Arthur
- “King of the Lost Boys,” Sara Bareilles
- “Dear Hope,” Sara Bareilles
- “Coming Back to You,” Sara Bareilles
- “Epistrophy (Live at Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, Calif., 1968),”Thelonious Monk
