The Most Requested Art, Music and Recreation Center books in November 2017

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 2017).

Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).

We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union (Dey St.,  2017).

Unqualified: Love and Relationship Advice From a Celebrity Who Just Wants to Help by Anna Faris with Rachel Bertsche (Dutton, 2017)

Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano with illustrations by Arturo Torres (Abrams Image, 2017).

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (Spiegel & Grau, 2016).

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice: The Stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim by Judith Mackrell (Thames & Hudson Inc., 2017).

Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield (Phaidon, 2017).

Macramé: The Craft of Creative Knotting for Your Home by Fanny Zedenius (Quadrille Publishing, 2017).

A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of Yarn, an anthology edited by Clara Parkes (Abrams Press, 2017).

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City, 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman (Dey St., 2017).

Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams with Jeannine Amber (Dey St., 2017).

On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor (Simon & Schuster, 2016).


By far, the current block-buster from our collection is Walter Isaacson's new work on Leonardo da Vinci.  While the wait list for this title is currently looks daunting, we have many additional copies on order.

The only holdover from our next most recent list of most requested books of January 2017 is Trevor Noah's Born A Crime.  There are also three books by actresses and comediennes, We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union, Unqualified by Anna Faris and Rabbit by Patricia Williams.

In lists from previous years we have seen memoirs by women singer-songwriters like Patti Smith, Carrie Brownstein, Viv Albertine, Carly Simon, Grace Jones, Chrissie Hynde, and Kim Gordon.  This month, Joni Mitchell is featured in the biography Reckless Daughter by David Yaffe.

The city of New York is highlighted in two titles -- Roz Chast's Going into Town and Meet Me in the Bathroom.  And luxurious living gets a little attention with The Unfinished Palazzo and Generation Wealth.

Crafting books draw steady interest and this month there is a title on Macramé and on knitting -- A Stash of One's Own.  On Trails is an outlier in terms of its subject matter, but it sounds like a fascinating meditation on hiking and nature.

All the titles except Unqualified are available as eBooks.  Many are also available as audio book.  Happy reading.