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April MR

What are people reading across the city? This list is updated at the beginning of each month by tallying up holds placed over the past 30 days.

March 2024

*Updated April 1, 2024

#1 The Women

The Women, by Kristin Hannah

 

  • This month: #1
  • Last month: #1
  • Months in top 10: 4
  • Peak: #1 (2 months)

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women--at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

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#2 First Lie Wins

First Lie Wins, by Ashley Elston

 

  • This month: #2
  • Last month: #2
  • Months in top 10: 3
  • Peak: #1 (1 month)

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist.

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#3 Listen for the Lie

Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera

 

  • This month: #3
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 1
  • Peak: #3

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter?

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#4 Dune

Dune, by Frank Herbert

 

  • This month: #4
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 3
  • Peak: #4

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.

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#5 Remarkably Bright Creatures

Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt

 

  • This month: #5
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 7
  • Peak: #5

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago.

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#6 James

James, by Percival Everett

 

  • This month: #6
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 1
  • Peak: #6

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the literary icon and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film American Fiction.

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#7 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride

 

  • This month: #7
  • Last month: #3
  • Months in top 10: 4
  • Peak: #3

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them

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#8 A Court of Thorns and Roses

A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas

 

  • This month: #8
  • Last month: #10
  • Months in top 10: 3
  • Peak: #8

Feyre returns to the Spring Court on a reconnaissance mission about the invading king. As a spy, the future of the entire kingdom may rely on her ability to play her part perfectly, and her decisions about who to trust and which allies are best will decide the outcome of the coming war.

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#9 None of this is True

None of this is True, by Lisa Jewell

 

  • This month: #9
  • Last month: N/A
  • Months in top 10: 6
  • Peak: #3

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose, Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.

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#10 Iron Flame

Iron Flame, by Rebecca Yarros

 

  • This month: #10
  • Last month: #9
  • Months in top 10: 6
  • Peak: #1 (2 months)

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College--and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

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Dropping Out This Month (months on chart, peak)