2021 Top Ten Adult Titles at the Deerfield Public Library

Looking for that next great book to read? While the Deerfield Public Library staff loves to provide curated suggestions, possibly your neighbors can also provide recommendations. Following are the top ten items checked out in select adult categories. Next week, we’ll back back with teen and children’s top titles.

Adult Fiction

1. The Last Thing He Told Me / Laura Dave
2. The Four Winds / Kristin Hannah
3. The Midnight Library / Matt Haig
4. The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett
5. Apples Never Fall / Liane Moriarty
6. That Summer / Jennifer Weiner
7. People We Meet on Vacation / Emily Henry
8. The Judge’s List / John Grisham
9. Anxious People / Fredrik Backman
10. The Lincoln Highway / Amor Towles

Adult Mystery

1. Win / Harlan Coben
2. The Bounty / Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton
3. The Madness of Crowds / Louise Penny
4. Dark Sky / C.J. Box
5. Still Life / Louise Penny
6. Finlay Donovan is Killing It / Elle Cosimano
7. Dream Girl / Laura Lippman
8. Game On / Janet Evanovich
9. Fortune and Glory / Janet Evanovich
10. Clark and Division / Naomi Hirahara

Adult Non-Fiction

1. Untamed / Glennon Doyle
2. Peril / Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
3. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race / Walter Isaacson
4. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story / Michael Lewis
5. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House / Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz
6. The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans / Catherine Grace Katz
7. Modern Comfort Food / Ina Garten
8. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family / Robert Kolker
9. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz / Erik Larson
10. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir / Michelle Zauner

Adult Audiobooks (Fiction and Non-Fiction)

1. Win / Harlan Coben
2. The Midnight Library / Matt Haig
3. The Law of Innocence / Michael Connelly
4. The Kaiser’s Web / Stever Berry
5. The Four Winds / Kristin Hannah
6. The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans / Catherine Grace Katz
7. The Book of Two Ways / Jodi Picoult
8. Serpentine / Jonathan Kellerman
9. Leave the World Behind / Rumaan Alam
10. Eli’s Promise / Ronald H. Balson

If you’re looking for a recommendation for something to watch, consider this wonderful program on the Deerfield Public Library’s YouTube channel: Remaining Artifacts from the White City: The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The program, which was presented at the Library in November 2021, has already had more than 56,000 views locally and from around the world.

To learn more about the top ten titles, visit our catalog at deerfieldlibrary.org. For assistance, email [email protected], or call 847-945-3311.