Check Out: What Montgomery County Was Reading in May

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 May, the most read books by genre are:

Juvenile Fiction

• Baby’s Big Busy Book by Karen Katz
• The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
• The Adventures of Otto: Go, Otto, Go! by David Milgrim
• The Infamous Ratsos by Kara LeReau

Juvenile Non-Fiction

• Atlas of Animal Adventures by Rachel Williams
• Guinness Book of World Records 2017 by Guinness World Records and Chris Hadfield
• Who Was Edgar Allen Poe? by Jim Gigliotti
• Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers that Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Young Adult

• Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) by Jenny Han
• Star Wars: Rebel Rising by Beth Revis
• A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas
• The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Adult Fiction

• Anything is Possible: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
• The Fix (Amos Decker series) by David Baldacci
• Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Adult Non-fiction

• Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker
• King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World by Joan Nathan
• Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night by Jason Zinoman
• The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

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