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White Plains Library Releases Top Ten Checkouts Of 2020

Below is a list of the 2020 top 10 most popular fiction, nonfiction, CD audiobooks, films, and TV shows.

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January 5 2021

By Kristen, Adult Librarian

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Below is a list of the 2020 top 10 most popular fiction, nonfiction, CD audiobooks, films, and TV shows based on the number of times they've been checked out from our collection. We told you what our staff loved this year, well, here's what was most popular among your fellow Library patrons.


Top 10 Fiction Books:

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  1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  2. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  3. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  4. The Guardians by John Grisham
  5. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
  6. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
  7. Moral Compass by Danielle Steel
  8. A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci
  9. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  10. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane


Top 10 Nonfiction Books:

  1. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
  2. A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
  3. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
  4. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
  5. Becoming by Michelle Obama
  6. The Room Where It Happened: a White House Memoir by John R. Bolton
  7. A Warning by Anonymous
  8. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  9. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
  10. Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction by David Enrich


Top 10 CD Audiobooks:

  1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  2. Becoming by Michelle Obama
  3. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  4. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  5. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
  6. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
  7. The Guardians by John Grisham
  8. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
  9. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  10. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides


Top 10 Films:

  1. Joker
  2. Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
  3. Little Women
  4. Downton Abbey
  5. Judy
  6. The Lion King
  7. Parasite
  8. Aladdin
  9. Ford v Ferrari
  10. Terminator: Dark Fate


Top 10 TV shows: