From the DC (District of Columbia) Public Library:
From Ta-Nehisi Coates to Ke$ha, Washingtonians had diverse reading and music interests this year. Of the more than 4 million items borrowed or downloaded from the DC Public Library, these are the most popular titles by type and format.
Top 10 Fiction Books
- “The Girls” by Emma Cline
- “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt
- “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
- “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett
- “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
- “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins
- “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “1984” by George Orwell
- “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
- “A Little Life”by Hanya Yanagihara
Top 10 Non-Fiction Books
- “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance
- “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “Modern Romance” by Aziz Ansari
- “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” by Marie Kondo
- “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead” by Brene Brown
- “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler
- “Why Not Me?” by Mindy Kaling
- “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” by Amy Schumer
- “Hamilton: The Revolution” by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson
With more than a million downloads of e-books, video, audio and magazines, the Library’s digital offerings are organized into four categories on our GoDigital page: Watch, Read, Listen and Learn.
Watch
Top 5 Criterion films streamed through Criterion Collection
- “8 1/2”
- “Black Orpheus”
- “400 Blows”
- “Rashomon”
- “Seven Samurai”
Top 5 Films streamed through InstantFlix
- “Chef de Meute”
- “The Red Balloon”
- “The Messenger”
- “If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”
- “Sid and Nancy”
Read
Top 10 Fiction eBooks
- “The Girls” by Emma Cline
- “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt
- “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
- “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett
- “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
- “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins
- “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
- “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara
- “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks
- “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance
- “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” by Marie Kondo
- “Why Not Me?” by Mindy Kahling
- “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” by Amy Schumer
- “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson
- “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah
- “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race” by Margot Lee Shetterly
- “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
- “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City”by Matthew Desmond
Top 5 Magazines downloaded through RBdigital Magazines
Listen
Top 10 Fiction Audiobooks
- “1984” by George Orwell
- “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
- “The Hopefuls” by Jennifer Close
- “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
- “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante
- “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins
- “The Girls” by Emma Cline
- “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
- “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt
- “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
Top 10 Non-Fiction Audiobooks
- “Modern Romance” by Aziz Ansari
- “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead” by Brene Brown
- “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler
- “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance
- “Hamilton: The Revolution” by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” by Marie Kondo
- “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow
- “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” by Amy Schumer
Top 10 Digital Music Downloads from Freegal Music
- “Something Just Like This” The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
- “What About Us” P!nk
- “Praying” Ke$ha
- “Say You Won’t Let Go” James Arthur
- “Paris” The Chainsmokers
- “Sign of the Times” Harry Styles
- “Unforgettable” French Montana feat. Swae Lee
- “Closer” Kings of Leon
- “Play That Song” Train
- “Malibu” Miley Cyrus
Learn
Top 5 Courses taken through Lynda.com
- Programming Foundations: Fundamentals
- HTML Essential Training
- JavaScript Essential Training
- Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals
- Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Top 5 Languages learned through Mango Languages
- Spanish, Latin American
- French
- Arabic, Levantine
- Italian
- Japanese
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