High Demand Items

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Every month, Josh Tiffany, Director of Gray Public Library, sends out a system wide email that alerts libraries of the items that are in high demand. Below you will find the list for October, 2017 high demand items. This will give you a glimpse of the value interlibrary loan is to libraries in Maine. And as a bonus, at the bottom of the list, Josh gives us the list from two years ago. Check out what was popular back in 2015!

 

OCTOBER 2017 High Demand Hold Digest

Books

  • Glass Houses (Penny) – 379 holds on 77 items
  • Y is for Yesterday (Grafton) – 206 holds on 63 items
  • A Gentleman in Moscow (Towles) – 171 holds on 69 items
  • What Happened (Clinton) – 144 holds on 29 items
  • A Legacy of Spies (LeCarre) – 103 holds on 41 items
  • My Absolute Darling (Tallent) – 96 holds on 21 items
  • Don’t Let Go (Coben) – 94 holds on 26 items
  • Little Fires Everywhere (Ng) – 89 holds on 31 items
  • Origin (Brown) – 84 holds on 16 items
  • Unbelievable (Tur) – 75 holds on 17 items
  • Haunted (Patterson) – 73 holds on 35 items
  • The Girl Who Takes An Eye for an Eye (Lagercrantz) – 59 holds on 28 items
  • Manhattan Beach (Egan) – 59 holds on 8 items
  • The TB12 Method (Brady) – 37 holds on 6 items
  • Winter Solstice (Hilderbrand) – 34 holds on 14 items
  • The Ship of the Dead (Riordan) – 25 holds on 7 items
  • Killing England (O’Reilly) – 24 holds on 6 items
  • Merry and Bright (Macomber) – 22 holds on 10 items
  • The Plant Paradox (Gundry) – 22 holds on 7 items
  • Kennedy Babylon (Carr) – 20 holds on 3 items

Large Print

  • Glass Houses (Penny) – 49 holds on 6 items
  • A Gentleman in Moscow (Towles) – 30 holds on 11 items
  • Haunted (Patterson) – 27 holds on 5 items
  • Don’t Let Go (Coben) – 26 holds on 4 items
  • Before We Were Yours (Wingate) – 25 holds on 10 items
  • A Legacy of Spies (LeCarre) – 16 holds on 5 items
  • Little Fires Everywhere (Ng) – 15 holds on 4 items
  • Origin (Brown) – 15 holds on 4 items
  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Lagercrantz) – 11 holds on 4 items
  • Fletcher (Perrotta) – 8 holds on 4 items

Audiobook

  • Glass Houses (Penny) – 57 holds on 22 items
  • What Happened (Clinton) – 22 holds on 4 items
  • Don’t Let Go (Coben) – 19 holds on 3 items
  • A Column of Fire (Follett) – 16 holds on 8 items
  • The Alice Network (Quinn) – 11 holds on 5 items
  • Little Fires Everywhere (Ng) – 11 holds on 5 items
  • Origin (brown) – 11 holds on 2 items
  • Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Sullivan) – 10 holds on 2 items
  • The Cuban Affair (DeMIlle) – 10 holds on 4 items
  • Secrets in Death (Robb) – 10 holds on 1 item

Blu-ray

  • Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 – 21 holds on 3 items
  • The Circle – 16 holds on 4 items
  • Wonder Woman (2009 animated) – 13 holds on 1 item
  • Baywatch – 12 holds on 3 items
  • Snatched – 11 holds on 5 items
  • Alien: Covenant – 10 holds on 5 items
  • Born in China – 10 holds on 2 items
  • The Big Sick – 8 holds on 2 items
  • Gifted – 8 holds on 4 items
  • It Comes At Night – 7 holds on 2 items
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (1990 feature film) – 6 holds on 1 item
  • Transformers: The Last Knight – 5 holds on 1 item
  • The Hero – 4 holds on 1 item
  • Smurfs: The Lost Village – 4 holds on 2 items
  • Transformers: The Last Knight (2-disc set)– 4 holds on 1 item
  • The Case for Christ – 3 holds on 1 item
  • Resident Evil: The Final Chapter – 3 holds on 1 item
  • 47 Meters Down – 2 holds on 1 item
  • Certain Women – 2 holds on 1 item
  • How To Be A Latin Lover – 2 holds on 1 item

DVD

  • Wonder Woman (single-disc 2017 feature film) – 89 holds on 10 items
  • Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 – 65 holds on 28 items
  • The Big Sick – 54 holds on 21 items
  • The Mummy – 41 holds on 13 items
  • Beatriz at Dinner – 33 holds on 10 items
  • Transformers: Last Knight – 33 holds on 6 items
  • Going in Style – 31 holds on 15 items
  • Paris Can Wait – 24 holds on 8 items
  • Rough Night – 24 holds on 5 items
  • Baywatch – 23 holds on 11 items
  • Dunkirk (2004 BBC documentary) – 19 holds on 1 item
  • Wonder Woman (2009 animated) – 16 holds on 1 item
  • Wonder Woman (2-disc 2017 feature film) – 14 holds on 4 items
  • Kong: Skull Island (2-disc special edition) – 13 holds on 6 items
  • The Ottoman Lieutenant – 11 holds on 4 items
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (1990 feature film) – 10 holds on 1 item
  • The Case for Christ – 9 holds on 3 items
  • It Comes at Night – 9 holds on 3 items
  • First Kill – 8 holds on 1 item
  • Shut In – 8 holds on 1 item

Blu-ray / DVD combo

  • Wonder Woman (2017 feature film) – 14 holds on 7 items
  • Kong: Skull Island – 11 holds on 3 items
  • The Boss Baby – 10 holds on 2 items
  • The Zookeepers Wife – 10 holds on 2 items
  • CHiPS – 8 holds on 2 items
  • Ghost in the Shell – 8 holds on 1 item
  • The Mummy – 8 holds on 1 item
  • Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 – 7 holds on 2 items
  • King Arthur: legend of the sword – 6 holds on 2 items
  • Going in Style – 5 holds on 1 item

TV Series

  • Big Little Lies – 46 holds on 18 items
  • Broadchurch: Season 3 – 37 holds on 11 items
  • The Big Bang Theory: Season 10 – 17 holds on 7 items
  • Murdoch Mysteries: Season 10 – 14 holds on 3 items
  • Orphan Black: Season 5 – 11 holds on 2 items
  • Major Crimes: Season 5 – 10 holds on 3 items
  • ER: Season 1 – 9 holds on 1 item
  • The Flash: Season 3 – 9 holds on 1 item
  • Death in Paradise: Season 6 – 8 holds on 1 item
  • Once Upon a Time: Season 6 – 8 holds on 1item
  • Chicago Fire: Season 5 – 6 holds on 3 items
  • The White Princess – 5 holds on 2 items
  • Designated Survivor: Season 1 – 4 holds on 2 items
  • Doctor Blake Mysteries: Season 4 – 4 holds on 0 items
  • The Goldbergs: Season 4 – 4 holds on 1 item
  • Grey’s Anatomy: Season 13 – 4 holds on 1 item
  • Suits:  Season 6 – 4 holds on 1 item
  • Survivor: Season 4 – 4 holds on 1 item
  • The Vietnam War (blu-ray) – 3 holds on 1 item
  • The Goldbergs: Season 3 – 3 holds on 1 item

Music CDs

  • Baby Driver soundtrack – 4 holds on 1 item
  • Now That’s What I call Music vol. 63 – 4 holds on 1 item
  • Back trios – 2 holds on 1 item
  • Concrete and Gold (Foo Fighters) – 2 holds on 1 item
  • A Deeper Understanding (War  on Drugs) – 2 holds on 1 item
  • Now That’s What I call Rock – 2 holds on 1 item

 

FLASHBACKS – High Demand holds from October 2015

Books

  • The Nature of the Beast (Penny) – 309 holds on 71 items
  • Make Me (Child) – 275 holds on 60 items
  • X (Grafton) – 188 holds on 57 items)
  • The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Lagercrantz) – 166 holds on 54 items
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Kondo) – 115 holds on 56 copies
  • The Murder House (Patterson) – 114 holds on 26 items
  • Fates and Furies (Groff) – 88 holds on 23 items
  • After You (Moyes) – 66 holds on 12 items
  • My Brilliant Friend (Ferrante) – 61 holds on 21 copies
  • The Scam (Evanovich) – 50 holds on 24 copies

DVDs

  • Homeland: Season 4 – 81 holds on 17 copies
  • Cinderella – 68 holds on 12 copies
  • The Age of Adaline – 66 holds on 16 copies
  • Pitch Perfect 2 – 55 holds on 9 copies
  • Spy – 49 holds on 3 copies
  • Aloha – 45 holds on 11 copies
  • Outlander: Season one, volume two – 43 holds on 5 copies
  • The Walking Dead: Season 5 – 41 holds on 12 copies
  • Mad Max: Fury Road – 34 holds on 13 copies
  • Love & Mercy – 32 holds on 11 copies