Libraries unveil the most-checked-out books of 2021

We know many library systems have unveiled their top checkouts of 2021.

But we — and Literary Hub — can’t share them all, so here are the most popular books at the New York Public Library.

• The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

• Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

• Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro. 

• A Promised Land, by Barack Obama. 

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. 

• The Guest List, by Lucy Foley.

• Where The Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. 

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb.

• The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris.

• Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Lit Hub notes that three of these books — A Promised Land, Caste, and The Guest List — are also on the Brooklyn and Queens libraries’ top-ten lists.

We’re curious how your local library compares — ours, for example, divided them into fiction and nonfiction, but Malibu Rising, The Guest List, The Midnight Library, Caste, and A Promised Land were echoed from the NYPL on the Des Moines Public Library’s lists.