Monday, July 04, 2005

'Top Ten Requested Items'

Right now the titles with the most holds on them are:
     The mermaid chair / Sue Monk Kidd
     Harry Potter and the half-blood prince / J. K. Rowling
     Eleven on top / Janet Evanovich
     The closers : a novel / Michael Connelly
     Broken prey / John Sandford
     Rage / Jonathan Kellerman
     The Kite runner / Khaled Hosseini
     Blink : the power of thinking without thinking / Malcolm Gladwell
     The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman
     With no one as witness / Elizabeth George
       By happenstance we ran into the analogous information from the Greater Victoria Public Library in British Columbia. Their list has some of the same titles as ours. But some differences, too. Collectively, Santa Feans have been done with The Da Vinci Code for a while now--still enough demand to support 30-odd copies, but no holds. (In fact, seventeen copies are on the shelf at the moment, so it's probably time to get rid of a few of them...) GVLS also has a page of links to bestseller lists that goes to English and Canadian sites as well as the New York Times. Alas, we still haven't found any sites that tell us what Australians are reading.
       A longer list of the books you're willing to wait in line for is always on our About Books and Literature page.

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