Check Out: What Montgomery County Was Reading in July

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 July, the most read books by genre are:

Juvenile Fiction

• Princeless: Raven The Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley
• Welcome to Camp Woggle (The Oodlethinks, Book 3) by Adele Griffin
• King Flashypants and the Evil Emperor by Andy Riley
• King & Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats by Dori Hillestad Butler

Juvenile Non-Fiction

• Atlas of Animal Adventures: A Collection of Nature’s Most Unmissable Events, Epic Migrations and Extraordinary Behaviours by Rachel Williams
• Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
• When the Sun Goes Dark by Andrew Fraknoi
• Who Was Galileo? by Patricia Brennan Demuth

Young Adult

• Ash and Quill (The Great Library) by Rachel Caine
• A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
• Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices) by Cassandra Clare
• by Sandhya Menon

Adult Fiction

• The Late Show by Michael Connelly
• House of Spies: A Novel (Gabriel Allon) by Daniel Silva
• Magpie Murders: A Novel by Anthony Horowitz
• The Identicals: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand

Adult Non-fiction

• A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution by Carol Berkin
• My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
• The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

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