Check Out: What Montgomery County Was Reading in January

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) have 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 and learned that some authors have more than one book on the local list.

For the month of January, the most read books in Montgomery County libraries by genre are:

JUVENILE FICTION:
Babymouse by Jennifer Holm (this entire series is popular)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (this entire series is popular)
Pokemon Adventures by Hidenori Kusaka
Big Nate Flips Out by Lincoln Peirce
Amulet, Book 5, Prince of the Elves by Kazu Kibuishi, juvenile graphic novel
Cavemice by Geronimo Stilton (#1 Stone of Fire and #2 Watch your Tail!)
House of Hades by Rick Riordan

JUVENILE NON-FICTION:
Adventures of Tintin by Herge
Comics including Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, Peanuts, and LEGO
Star Wars, the Clone Wars Incredible Vehicles by Jason Fry
Ripley’s believe it or Not! Special Edition 2013 by Ripley Entertainment
Just Joking titles by National Geographic—especially #s 2 and 3
Super Trucks by Clive Clifford
Kids Ultimate U.S. Road Trip Atlas by National Geographic

YOUNG ADULT:
Naruto series-graphic novels by Masashi Kishimoto
Bleach series-graphic novels by Tite Kubo
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

ADULT FICTION:
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Cross My Heart by James Patterson
Mistress by James Patterson
King and Maxwell by David Baldacci
Sycamore Row by John Grisham

ADULT NON-FICTION:
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
This Town by Mark Leibovich
Cracking the TOEFL iBT by Douglas Pierce
Cracking the SAT by Adam Robinson
What Color is Your Parachute? By Richard Bolles
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Alexander Eben

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