Because this list reflects the cumulation of an entire years circulation it does not include 2018 titles that have not had enough time to circulate as highly. Unsurprisingly, the top three titles on the list were among the books with the
largest number of holds placed in November 2017.
Given the excitement over the Golden State Warriors, it's no surprise that
Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry is ending up the hands of a lot of our readers. Memoirs by entertainers and comedians continue to be circulate well represented here with books by Tiffany Hadish, Kevin Hart, Gucci Mane, John Hodgman and Eddie Izzard.
The musical
Hamilton appears twice -- both the accompanying book with the libretto and a score of the songs arranged for easy piano. Along the lines of easy piano, the piano instruction manual
Adult Piano Adventures. This interest in musical self-learning in our community is also evident in the popularity of
Music Theory for Dummies and
Jake Shimabukuro Teaches Ukulele Lessons.
There are a few older titles on the list.
Molly's
Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My
High-stakes Adventure In the World of Underground Poker became a successful movie.
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud has become a classic on the subject.
Happy reading!
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (Spiegel & Grau, 2016).
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 2017).
Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).
Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry by Marcus Thompson II (Touchstone, 2017).
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish (Gallery Books, 2017).
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss (37 Ink; Atria, 2017).
Hamilton: The Revolution: Being the Complete Libretto Of the Broadway Musical, With a True Account of Its Creation, and Concise Remarks on Hip-hop, the Power Of Stories, And the New America by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter (Grand Central Publishing, 2016).
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Simon & Schuster, 2017).
Music Theory For Dummies by Michael Pilhofer, MM and Holly Day (John Wiley & Sons, 2015).
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Paradox Press, 1999).
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell (Simon & Schuster, 2013).
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-stakes Adventure In the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom (It Books, 2014).
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel (Oxford University Press, 1977).
Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills by Craig Luebben (Mountaineer Books, 2014).
Jake Shimabukuro teaches ukulele lessons (Hal Leonard, 2017).
Vacationland: True Stories From Painful Beaches by John Hodgman (Viking, 2017).
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard (Blue Rider Press, 2017).
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool: A True Love Story by Peter Turner (Picador, 2017).
Adult Piano Adventures: A Comprehensive Piano Course: All-in-one Lesson Book: Solos, Technique, Theory. 1 by Nancy and Randall Faber (Faber Piano Adventures, 2010).
Hamilton: An American musical; Easy Piano Selections / book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hal Leonard, 2015).
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