Most Popular Titles of 2017


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Top Adult Fiction Books 

 

 

Camino Island
by John Grisham
Doubleday| 2017
Main Market Place Fresh Picks (Grisham, J)
Main Market Place Thriller (Grisham, J)
Rakow Thriller (Grisham, J)

 

 

The Fix
by Davis Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing | 2017
Main Market Place Fresh Picks (Baldacci, D)
Rakow Thriller (Baldacci, D)
South Elgin Thriller (Baldacci, D)

 

 

The Black Book
by James Patterson
Little, Brown and Company | 2017
Main Market Place Fresh Picks (Patterson, J)
Rakow Thriller (Patterson, J)
South Elgin Thriller (Patterson, J)

 

 

Never Never
by James Patterson
Little, Brown and Company | 2017
Main Market Place Fresh Picks (Patterson, J)
Rakow Thriller (Patterson, J)
South Elgin New and Hot Fiction (Patterson, J)

 

 

The Whistler
by John Grisham
Doubleday | 2016
Main Market Place Fresh Picks (Grisham, J)
Rakow Thriller (Grisham, J)
South Elgin Thriller (Grisham, J)

 

 

16th Seduction
by James Patterson
Little, Brown and Company | 2017
Main Market Place Fresh Picks (Patterson, J)
Rakow Thriller (Patterson, J)
South Elgin Thriller (Patterson, J)

     

Top Adult Non-Fiction Books 

 

 

Billbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance
Harper | 2016
Main Adult Non-Fiction (920 Vance)
Rakow (920 Vance)
South Elgin (920 Vance)

 

 

The Magnolia Story
by Chip and Joanna Gaines
Thomas Nelson | 2016
Main Adult Non-Fiction (927.914 Gaines)
Main Market Place Biography & Memoir (927.914 Gaines)
Rakow Biography & Memoir (927.914 Gaines)
South Elgin Biography & Memoir (927.914 Gaines)

 

 

Guinness World Records 2018
Guinness World Records | 2018
Main Adult Non-Fiction (032 Guinness 2018)
Main Teen Non-Fiction (032 Guinness 2018)
Rakow I Want to Know (032 Guinness 2018)

 

 

Filthy Rich: a powerful billionaire, the sex scandal that undid him, and all the justice that money can buy: the shocking true story of Jeffrey Epstein
by James Patterson
Little, Brown and Company | 2016
Main Adult Non-Fiction (364.153 Patterson)
Main Market Place True Crime (364.153 Patterson)
Rakow True Crime (364.153 Patterson)
South Elgin True Crime (364.153 Patterson)

 

 

Boys in the Boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown
Viking | 2013
Main Adult Non-Fiction (797.123097 Brown)
Rakow Sports (797.123097 Brown)
South Elgin Must Reads (797.123097 Brown)

 

The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
Scribner | 2005
Main Adult Non-Fiction (362.82 Walls)
Rakow Must Reads (362.82 Walls)
South Elgin Must Reads (362.82 Walls)

     

Top Youth Fiction Books 

 

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
by Jeff Kinney
Amulet Books | 2016
Main Youth (J) Fiction (Kinney, J)
Rakow Kid Approved (Kinney, J)
South Elgin Kid Approved (Kinney, J)

 

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
by Jeff Kinney
Amulet Books | 2013
Main Youth (J) Fiction (Kinney, J)
Rakow Kid Approved (Kinney, J)
South Elgin Kid Approved (Kinney, J)

 

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
by Jeff Kinney
Amulet Books | 2015
Main Youth (J) Fiction (Kinney, J)
Rakow Kid Approved (Kinney, J)
South Elgin Kid Approved (Kinney, J)

 

 

Smile
by Raina Telgemeier
Graphix | 2010
Main Youth (J) Graphic Novels (Telgemeier, R)
Rakow Graphic Novels (741.5 Telgemeier)
South Elgin Comics (741.5 Telgemeier)

 

 

Sisters
by Raina Telgemeier
Graphix | 2014
Main Youth (J) Graphic Novels (Telgemeier, R)
Rakow Graphic Novels (741.5 Telgemeier)
South Elgin Comics (741.5 Telgemeier)

 

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
by Jeff Kinney
Amulet Books | 2014
Main Youth (J) Fiction (Kinney, J)
Rakow Kid Approved (Kinney, J)
South Elgin Kid Approved (Kinney, J)

     

 

 

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