Manyholds

Here is the list of the dozen or so titles with the most holds on them. The full list on the web page, Books You're Willing to Wait in Line For, will be updated in the next day or so, but this is the headline news for June:

• A Thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini
• The good husband of Zebra Drive / Alexander McCall Smith
• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows / J. K. Rowling
• Simple genius / David Baldacci
• The Overlook / Michael Connelly
• Obsession / Jonathan Kellerman
• Bad luck and trouble : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child
• Invisible prey / John Sandford
• The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel / Michael Chabon
• The sixth target / James Patterson
• Body surfing / Anita Shreve
• Whitethorn Woods / Maeve Binchy
• Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life / Barbara Kingsolver
• The Secret / Rhonda Byrne
• The assault on reason / Al Gore

We are getting more copies of several of these titles. Then the waiting time will decrease rapidly.