LA Public Library’s Top Ten: July

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 May.



Top 10 Books

  1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
  2. The Searcher, Tana French
  3. The Code Breaker, Walter Isaacson
  4. Siege and Storm, Leigh Bardugo
  5. The Consequences of Fear, Jacqueline Winspear
  6. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
  7. Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, Sanjay Gupta
  8. Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo
  9. Mike Nichols: A Life, Mark Harris
  10. Serpentine: An Alex Delaware Novel, Jonathan Kellerman


Top 10 DVDs:

  1. Wonder Woman 1984 
  2. News of the World
  3. Promising Young Woman
  4. Soul
  5. Judas and the Black Messiah
  6. Tenet
  7. Minari
  8. Raya and the Last Dragon
  9. Let Him Go
  10. Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar


Top 10 E-Books:

  1. The Midnight Library: A Novel, Matt Haig
  2. The Four Winds: A Novel, Kristin Hannah
  3. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
  4. The Vanishing Half: A Novel, Brit Bennett
  5. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
  6. Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1: Bridgerton Series, Books 1-3, Julia Quinn
  7. The Guest List: A Novel, Lucy Foley
  8. Shadow and Bone: The Grisha Trilogy, Book 1, Leigh Bardugo
  9. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Lori Gottlieb
  10. Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel, Celeste Ng


Top 10 Songs

  1. “All I Know So Far,” P!nk
  2. “She Used to Be Mine (Live from the Hollywood Bowl),” Sara Bareilles
  3. “Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat feat. SZA
  4. “We Are the People (Official UEFA EURO 2020 Song),” Martin Garrix feat. Bono & The Edge
  5. “We Are Between,” Modest Mouse
  6. “Sun Goes Down,” Lil Nas X
  7. “Without You (Miley Cyrus Remix),” The Kid LAROI & Miley Cyrus
  8. “Confetti,” Little Mix feat. Saweetie
  9. “Butter,” BTS, Rob Grimaldi, Stephen Kirk, Ron Perry
  10. “Motorbike,” Leon Bridges
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