Bentley Library Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks of 2018/19
June 10, 2019
It's time for the 10th annual Bentley Library Top 10!
At the end of every academic year we tabulate the library’s most popular books, audiobooks, DVDs, and OverDrive downloadable ebooks and audiobooks based on the number of times they have been borrowed (excluding items placed on reserve for a class). These are our very own "Bentley Bestsellers" lists!
This year nonfiction scored big, claiming six spots in the Popular Reading ranking, a list typically dominated by fiction. Michelle Obama's biography Becoming and Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover were especially popular. On the fiction side, new releases by perennially popular authors Liane Moriarty, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, and Louise Penny made appearances.
This is your chance to see what Bentley students, faculty and staff have been reading, watching, and listening to. We hope you enjoy this annual tradition as much as we do and that you are inspired to pick up a new book or film. As always, there were many ties in the rankings, so you have quite a few options.
Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2018-2019 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks (compact disc), Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloaded eBooks and OverDrive Downloaded Audiobooks.
Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection
1. BECOMING by Michelle Obama
2. EDUCATED: A MEMOIR by Tara Westover
3. NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
4. (tie) THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah
4. (tie) THE RECKONING by John Grisham
4. (tie) WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
7. (tie) 21 LESSONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY by Yuval Noah Harari
7. (tie) A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult
7. (tie) ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson
7. (tie) FEAR: TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Bob Woodward
7. (tie) THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean
Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks
1. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carnegie
2. (tie) FREAKONOMICS by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
2. (tie) THINKING FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman
4. LIAR'S POKER by Michael Lewis
5. (tie) BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP by John Carreyrou
5. (tie) PRINCIPLES: LIFE AND WORK by Ray Dalio
7. (tie) AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL LEARNING: WITH APPLICATIONS IN R by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani
7. (tie) MOSTLY HARMLESS ECONOMETRICS: AN EMPIRICIST'S COMPANION by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
7. (tie) MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS by Joseph F. Hair, Jr.
7. (tie) RICH DAD, POOR DAD by by Robert T. Kiyosaki
7. (tie) THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill
Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [Compact Disc]
1. (tie) BECOMING by Michelle Obama
1. (tie) EDUCATED: A MEMOIR by Tara Westover
1. (tie) THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTAWAY by Ruth Ware
4. (tie) THERE, THERE by Tommy Orange
4. (tie) A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult
4. (tie) COURT OF LIES by Gerry Spence
4. (tie) IN PIECES by Sally Field
4. (tie) KINGDOM OF THE BLIND by Louise Penny
4. (tie) ROBERT B. PARKER'S COLORBLIND by Reed Farrel Coleman
4. (tie) ROBIN by David Itzkoff
4. (tie) THE CLOCKMAKER'S DAUGHTER by Kate Morton
4. (tie) THE ENGLISH WIFE by Lauren Willig
4. (tie) ORIGIN by Dan Brown
4. (tie) THE FORBIDDEN DOOR by Dean Koontz
4. (tie) THE RECKONING by John Grisham
4. (tie) THE WOMAN LEFT BEHIND by Linda Howard
4. (tie) UNSHELTERED by Barbara Kingsolver
Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection
1. OCEAN'S EIGHT
2. TAG
3. CRAZY RICH ASIANS
4. BOOK CLUB
5. (tie) AVENGERS, INFINITY WAR
5. (tie) BLACKKKLANSMAN
5. (tie) LEAVE NO TRACE
5. (tie) WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
9. (tie) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
9. (tie) JURASSIC WORLD, FALLEN KINGDOM
Top 10 Downloaded eBooks [OverDrive]
1. BECOMING by Michelle Obama
2. NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
3. A SIMPLE FAVOR by Darcey Bell
4. ALL WE EVER WANTED by Emily Griffin
5. CLOCK DANCE by Anne Tyler
6. A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult
7. THE RECKONING by John Grisham
8. (tie) THE FIFTH RISK by Michael Lewis
8. (tie) KINGDOM OF THE BLIND by Louise Penny
8. (tie) UNSHELTERED by Barbara Kingsolver
Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks [OverDrive]
1. BECOMING by Michelle Obama
2. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
3. (tie) NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarty
3. (tie) READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline
5. (tie) US AGAINST YOU by Fredrik Backman
5. (tie) BRING ME BACK by B. A. Paris
5. (tie) CLOCK DANCE by Anne Tyler
5. (tie) THE WITCH ELM by Tana French
9. ROBIN by David Itzkoff
10. (tie) STILL LIFE by Louise Penny
10. (tie) AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING by Hank Green
10. (tie) TIME'S CONVERT by Deborah Harkness