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The Fort Worth Public Library Counts Down Fort Worth’s Most Popular Reads of 2020
2020 was a year for changing our habits. Enforced sheltering in place led to more of us reading those books we had been promising ourselves that we would read when we had the time. In 2020, the Fort Worth Public Library reported a 33% increase in eBook and audiobook check outs over 2019. In total, more than 2.7 million items were checked out across books, eBooks, audiobooks, movies, and more in 2020!
Here is the Fort Worth Public Library’s list of the most popular books in Fort Worth for 2020:
Top Ten Adult Fiction Books
- Where the Crawdads Sing– Delia Owens
- The Guardians– John Grisham
- Walk the Wire– David Baldacci
- Blue Moon: a Jack Reacher novel – Lee Child
- A Minute to Midnight– David Baldacci
- The Night Fire– Michael Connelly
- Camino Winds– John Grisham
- The Silent Patient– Alex Michaelides
- American Dirt– Jeanine Cummins
- Masked Prey– John Sanford
Top Ten Adult Nonfiction Books
- Educated: a memoir –Tara Westover
- Becoming –Michelle Obama
- Girl, Wash Your Face –Rachel Hollis
- Too Much and Never Enough –Mary L. Trump
- The Room Where It Happened –John R. Bolton
- The Splendid and the Vile –Erik Larson
- Magnolia Table –Joanna Gaines
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone –Lori Gottlieb
- The Pioneer Woman Cooks –Ree Drummond
- Open Book –Jessica Simpson
Top Ten Teen Fiction Books
- The Tyrant’s Tomb –Rick Riordan
- Turtles All the Way Down– John Green
- The Hunger Games –Suzanne Collins
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince –K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – K. Rowling
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes –Suzanne Collins
- Renegades– Marissa Meyer
- The Hate U Give– Angie Thomas
- The Burning Maze– Rick Riordan
- Mockingjay– Suzanne Collins
Top Ten Picture Books
- The Pigeon Needs a Bath! –Mo Willems
- The Pigeon Has to Go to School!– Mo Willems
- Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet –Jane O’Connor
- The Giving Tree –Shel Silverstein
- The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!– Mo Willems
- If You Give a Dog a Donut –Laura Joffe Numeroff
- Pete the Cat Treasury –Kim Dean
- The Cool Bean –Jory John
- Llama Llama Loves to Read –Anna Dewdney
- If You Give a Cat a Cupcake –Laura Joffe Numeroff
Fort Worth, you have great taste in literature! The Fort Worth Public Library offers a number of book clubs for all ages and hosts What #FortWorthReads each Wednesday on Instagram Live. So make your lists for 2021, Fort Worth, and keep reading!
