Curious as to what your friends and neighbors were reading, watching, and listening to in 2021? Us too!
2021 ushered in a year of stellar new releases from old favorites, a barrage of debut authors, and lots of titles that broadened our bookshelves (and minds) and filled up our streaming queues. Here's a look at the top 10 books, movies, and songs by age group and format.
ADULTS:
No surprises here. The Four Winds, The Vanishing Half, and The Midnight Library took top honors across all formats this year.
Adult Fiction:
1. The Four Winds
2. The Vanishing Half: A Novel
3. The Midnight Library
4. The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
5. A Time for Mercy
6. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
7. A Gambling Man
8. Sooley: A Novel
9. Daylight
10. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
1. The Midnight Library: A Novel
2. The Four Winds: A Novel
3. The Vanishing Half: A Novel
4. The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
5. The Guest List: A Novel
6. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
7. Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1: Bridgerton Series, Books 1-3
8. Anxious People: A Novel
9. A Time for Mercy
10. Malibu Rising: A Novel
1. The Vanishing Half: A Novel
2. The Four Winds: A Novel
3. The Midnight Library: A Novel
4. The Guest List: A Novel
5. A Promised Land
6. Greenlights
7. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
8. The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
9. Where the Crawdads Sing
10. Anxious People: A Novel
Series seem to take top marks across teen formats in 2021--with lots of checkouts of The Grisha Trilogy and A Court of Thorns and Roses Series as well as older favorites like the Twilight series and The Hunger Games.
Teen Fiction:
1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
2. Midnight Sun
3. One of Us is Lying
4. The Hunger Games
5. Catching Fire
6. The Cruel Prince
7. The Hate U Give
8. We Were Liars
9. Throne of Glass
10. Salt to the Sea
1. Shadow and Bone: The Grisha Trilogy, Book 1
2. Five Total Strangers
3. Midnight Sun: Twilight Series, Book 5
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses
5. Siege and Storm: The Grisha Trilogy, Book 2
6. One of Us Is Lying
7. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Hunger Games Series
8. A Court of Mist and Fury
9. Six of Crows: Dregs Series
10. A Court of Wings and Ruin
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Book 1
2. Midnight Sun
3. A Court of Mist and Fury: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Book 2
4. A Court of Wings and Ruin: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Book 3
5. The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games Series, Book 1
6. Children of Blood and Bone: Legacy of Orisha Series, Book 1
7. Five Total Strangers
8. The Hate U Give
9. Legendborn
10. The Book Thief
Long story, short. It was a good year to be Mo Willems, a wimpy kid or everyone's favorite teen wizard.
Children's Fiction:
1. I Love My New Toy!
2. I Will Take a Nap!
3. Pigs Make Me Sneeze!: An Elephant & Piggie Book
4. I Really Like Slop!
5. Waiting is not easy!
6. The Thank You Book
7. I Will Surprise My Friend!
8. Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar
9. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
10. Elephants Cannot Dance!
1. The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 15)
2. The Good Egg
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
4. Grime and Punishment: Dog Man Series, Book 9
5. Logan Likes Mary Anne!: Baby-Sitters Club Graphix Series, Book 8
6. Guts: Smile Series, Book 3
7. Smile: Smile Series, Book 1
8. Fetch-22: Dog Man Series, Book 8
9. Cat Kid Comic Club: Cat Kid Comic Club Series, Book 1
10. The Bad Seed
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
8. A Wrinkle In Time
9. The Dragonet Prophecy
10. The Lightning Thief
From cross-over country to broadway soundtracks, animated films and superhero favorites, library customers got their fill of music and movies this year.
1. Frozen II
2. Spider Man: Far From Home
3. The Marksman
4. News of the World
5. Wonder Woman 1984
6. The Lion King
7. The Croods, A New Age
8. Tenet
9. Little Women
10. Honest Thief
And last but not least, here's a quick look at the top five things your friends and neighbors were checking out from our Library of Things collection in 2021.
1. Seed Bundles
2. Photography Kits
3. Pressure Washers
4. Projection Kits
5. Electric Tiller and Cultivator