LA Public Library’s Top Ten: May

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 March.



Top 10 Books

  1. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
  2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
  3. The Searcher, Tana French
  4. The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson
  5. All the Devils Are Here, Louise Penny
  6. The Big Goodbye, Sam Wasson
  7. Fortune and Glory, Janet Evanovich
  8. Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
  9. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn


Top 10 DVDs:

  1. Tenet
  2. Aquaman
  3. Greenland
  4. Let Him Go
  5. Honest Thief
  6. The War With Grandpa
  7. The Croods, a New Age
  8. Ant-Man
  9. Wander
  10. Love and Monsters


Top 10 E-Books:

  1. The Midnight Library: A Novel, Matt Haig
  2. The Four Winds: A Novel, Kristin Hannah
  3. The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett
  4. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
  5. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
  6. Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
  7. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Lori Gottlieb
  8. Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1: Bridgerton Series, Books 1-3, Julia Quinn
  9. Midnight Sun: Twilight Series, Book 5, Stephenie Meyer
  10. American Dirt: A Novel, Jeanine Cummins


Top 10 Songs

  1.  “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” Elle King and Miranda Lambert
  2.  “Watermelon Sugar,” Harry Styles
  3.  “Cover Me in Sunshine,” P!nk + Willow Sage Hart
  4.  “Stormy Weather,” Kings of Leon
  5.  “When You See Yourself, Are You Far Away,” Kings of Leon
  6.  “100,000 People,” Kings of Leon
  7.  “A Wave,”  Kings of Leon
  8.  “The Bandit,” Kings of Leon
  9.  “How Does It Feel,” London Grammar
  10.  “Like a Ship,” Leon Bridges and Keite Young
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