Tis’ the season for top ten lists! Bookstores have best seller lists; libraries have best circulating lists. Here’s a look at what Arkansas Tech has been reading, watching, and listening to during the year 2013.
Top ten most checked-out books from the Popular Reading collection:
- World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war / by Max Brooks.
- Cinder / written by Marissa Meyer.
- Crown of embers / by Rae Carson
- Game of thrones / George R.R. Martin.
- Giver / Lois Lowry.
- Incarceron / Catherine Fisher.
- Scorpio Races / Maggie Stiefvater.
- Girl of fire and thorns / Rae Carson.
- History of the world according to Facebook / Wylie Overstreet.
- Why we broke up / novel by Daniel Handler
Top ten most checked-out audiobooks:
- Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone / J.K. Rowling.
- Hobbit / by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Game of thrones / George R.R. Martin.
- Feast for crows / George R.R. Martin.
- Storm front / Jim Butcher.
- Telegraph Avenue : a novel / Michael Chabon.
- Bayou trilogy / by Daniel Woodrell.
- James Herriot collection / by James Herriot.
- Singularity is near : when humans transcend biology / Ray Kurzweil.
- Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets / J.K. Rowling.
Top ten most checked-out movies:
- Curious case of Benjamin Button
- Silver linings playbook
- Avatar
- Life of Pi
- Insidious
- Thor
- Game of thrones. The complete second season
- Skyfall
- Walking dead. The complete first season
- Spirited away
And the number one most checked-out item in the whole library is….circulation headphones!
Want something from these lists that is checked out? You can always place a hold request on the item so that when it returns, you will be the first to know. Just find the item in the online catalog, and pick “Place a Hold or Recall” action from the top left of your screen.
For questions about placing holds, checking out items, or searching the online catalog, contact your ever popular librarians: askalibrarian@atu.edu. Happy new year!
