Check Out: What Montgomery County Was Reading in June

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 June, the most read books by genre are:

Juvenile Fiction

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander and J.K. Rowling
• ¡Tienes un pájaro en la cabeza! (Spanish Edition) (An Elephant and Piggie Book) by Mo Willems
• Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan
• Nobody is Perfick by Bernard Waber

Juvenile Non-Fiction

• How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture by Tonya Bolden
• My Weird School Fast Facts: Sports by Dan Gutman
• The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
• Where is Niagara Falls? by Megan Stine

Young Adult

• Once and for All by Sarah Dessen
• Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh
• Now I Rise (And I Darken) by Kiersten White
• Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity) by Victoria Schwab

Adult Fiction

• Camino Island: A Novel by John Grisham
• Saints for all Occasions by Courtney Sullivan
• Not a Sound: A Thriller by Heather Gudenkauf
• Into the Water: A Novel by Paula Hawkins

Adult Non-fiction

• The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…and Maybe the World by William McRaven
• The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse

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