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This just in from Librarian Lori Herdzik at the Slave Lake Municipal Library: a list of the most requested books in the inter-library loan system to which the library belongs.
One thing that jumps out immediately from the list is that eight of the top 10 are by female authors. Assuming that female readers tend to read female authors more than male readers do, this suggests that women make up the bulk of library book borrowers and perhaps readers in general. Or does it merely illustrate that these particular female authors kick a** and everybody’s reading ‘em?
However, a male author tops the list. He’s Christopher Paolini (never heard of him) with ‘Eldest’. It was requested 212 times through The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC, the above-mentioned inter-library loan system).
Diana Gabaldon is next with ‘A Breath of Snow and Ashes,’ at 190. Janet Evanovich’s ‘Eleven on Top’ checks in at #3, having been requested 181 times. James Frey’s ‘A Million Little Pieces’, a story about recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, is fourth at 177 requests.
The rest: ‘Blue Smoke’, Nora Roberts, 166; ‘The Undomestic Goddess’, Sophie Kinsella, 152; ‘Slow Burn: A Novel’, Julie Garwood, 150; ‘Predator: A Scarpetta Novel’, Patricia Daniels Cornwell, 149; ‘S is for Silence’, Sue Grafton, 122; ‘Cross Bones’, Kathy Reichs, 117.
Here are some new books available from the library: ‘Mary, Mary,’ by James Patterson, ‘Amber Warning’, by Robert Ludlum, ‘Teacher Man’, by Frank McCourt, ‘Lincoln Lawyer’, by Michael Connelly, ‘Bud Inc.: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry,’ and ‘The Beatles: The Biography’.