NYC's Top Checkouts of 2022 by Borough

As part of The New York Public Library's annual tradition of bringing you the top checkouts of the year, we’ve compiled these lists of the top 10 adult titles checked out in each borough—with a little help from our friends at Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library. How many have you read?

Top Checkouts in The Bronx

1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
5. Dream Town: An Archer Novel by David Baldacci
6. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
7. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
8. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles  
9. Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
10. The Match by Harlan Coben

Top Checkouts in Manhattan

1. ​​Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
2. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
3. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
4. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
5. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
7. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
8. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
9. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
10. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Top Checkouts in Staten Island

1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
2. Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
3. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
4. What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
5. Dream Town: An Archer Novel by David Baldacci
6. Invisible by Danielle Steel
7. High Stakes by Danielle Steel
8. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
9. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
10. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Brooklyn Public Library

Top Checkouts in Brooklyn

1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
5. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
6. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
9. The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
10. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Queens Public Library

Top Checkouts in Queens

1. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
2. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
3. The Judge’s List by John Grisham
4. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
6.  The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
7. Verity by Colleen Hoover
8. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
10. What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

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