The books, e-books and book club picks New Yorkers read in 2021
Driven by an urge to share literature with their communities, city residents checked out The Vanishing Half from the library
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Driven by an urge to share literature with their communities, city residents checked out The Vanishing Half from the library
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Reading and talking about books is a good way for people to stay connected, especially when they're stuck at home. The Brooklyn Public Library's Fritzi Bodenheimer said about half of the most popular books readers borrowed provide plenty of escape. But many others deal with racial issues.
Our survey of 36 libraries showed digital checkouts hitting their stride. Fiction was read the most during the pandemic year along with a diverse range of titles.
Of the millions of print and digital books that readers borrowed from the city’s big three library systems in 2021 were a presidential memoir, a novel about twin sisters on opposite sides of the color line and historical fiction about The Great Depression.