Check Out: What Montgomery County Was Reading in April

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) maintain an extensive collection of materials for county residents to check out. Have you ever wondered what the county’s library visitors are reading? We turned to our county’s librarians to find out.

For the month of April, the most read books by genre are:

Juvenile Fiction

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
• Big Nate Goes for Broke by Lincoln Peirce
• Junie B. First Grader series by Barbara Park

• The Magic School Bus Presents series by Tom Jackson
• The Unofficial Lego Builder’s Guide by Allan Bedford
• Weird But True! Food: 300 Bite-size Facts About Incredible Edibles by Julie Beer
• Quiz Whiz series by National Geographic

Young Adult

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Allegiant by Veronica Roth
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Adult Fiction

• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Gray Mountain by John Grisham
• The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
• The Liar by Nora Roberts

Adult Non-Fiction

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Happens in the End by Atul Gawande
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
• Paleo Kitchen: Finding Primal Joy in Modern Cooking by Judi Bauer
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

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