The Most Popular Books on Libby (Plus, a Gothic Sci-Fi Surprise)

For the past couple of months, the most popular books on Libby have been roughly the same 20 books. They usually just change order. That’s also true for November, but with a few exceptions. Coming in at the end is the newly released book in Jeff Kinney’s wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Partypooper (it’s #20). Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein, also known as the first sci-fi novel ever, also made it onto the list, no doubt as a result of Guillermo del Toro’s latest adaptation that just made it to select theaters and Netflix within the last few weeks.

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As mentioned previously, the books that made it into Libby’s top 20 are mostly a rehash of the books that made it before, and since previous months’ most popular books on Libby closely resemble mainstream bestseller lists, there isn’t much (any, really) diversity. For more diverse authors, make sure to check out this list of the BIPOC edition of the 22 best books of the year.

For starters, here are a few:

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Katabasis by R.F. Kuang A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy Audition by Katie Kitamura We Do Not Part by Han Kang, Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones