Manyholds

We have updated the list of the titles with the most holds. This month there are a lot of changes: a lot of new titles climbed onto the list and already have a bunch of people waiting for them; and the very top of the list also has changed. The top dozen or so high demand titles are:

• Step on a crack / James Patterson
• The watchman : a Joe Pike novel / Robert Crais
• High profile / Robert B. Parker
• Whitethorn Woods / Maeve Binchy
• The measure of a man : a spiritual autobiography / Sidney Poitier
• The shape shifter / Tony Hillerman
• The secret / Rhonda Byrne
• The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai
• Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West / Hampton Sides
• The double bind / Chris Bohjalian
• Nineteen minutes / Jodi Picoult
• Hide/ Lisa Gardner

Some of the titles which were not on the list last month: Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy and The double bind by Chris Bohjalian, both already near the top of the list and shown above; Infidel by Aayan Hirsi Ali; Calvin Trillin's About Alice ; Alexander McCall Smith's new Ladies Detective title, The good husband of Zebra Drive; Wild indigo by Sandi Ault, a New Mexico title; Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, a Colorado title; —and Joan Didion's The year of magical thinking is back on the list.