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Top 100 of 2022

Need a good book to read?  Look no further than our Top 100 list!  These are our most requested and circulated books of 2022.  Search by title to request any of these books through our online catalog.

1. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
2. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
3. The Judge’s List by John Grisham
4. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
5. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
6. Better Off Dead by Lee Child
7. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
8. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
9. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
10. Mercy by David Baldacci
11. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
11. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
12. The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
13. When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
14. Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson
15. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

16. Never by Ken Follett
16. The Maid by Nita Prose
17. Daylight by David Baldacci
18. Shadows Reel by C.J. Box
19. Sooley by John Grisham
20. Sparring Partners by John Grisham
21. Game On by Janet Evanovich
22. The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
23. State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
24. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
25. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
26. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
27. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
28. The Whistler by John Grisham
29. Something to Hide by Elizabeth George
30. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
30. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

31. Walk the Wire by David Baldacci
32. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
33. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
34. There Precious Days by Ann Patchett
35. The Investigator by John Sandford
35. What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
36. Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly
37. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
38. The Cellist by Daniel Silva
38. The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
39. The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake
40. Still Life by Louise Penny
41. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
41. The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
42. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead,
43. The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
43. Black Ice by Brad Thor
44. Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich
45. Dream Town by David Baldacci

46. Billy Summers by Stephen King
47. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
48. Verity by Colleen Hoover
48. The Sentence by Lousie Erdich
48. One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner
48. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
49. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci
49. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
50. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
50. Autopsy by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
51. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
51. A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
52. Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills
52. Abandoned in Death by J.D. Robb
52. A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear
53. Silverview by John LeCarré
53. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

53. Ocean Prey by John Sandford
53. 22 Seconds by James Patterson
54. Nightwork by Nora Roberts
54. The Return by Nicholas Sparks
55. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
55. All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
55. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
56. Win by Harlan Coben
56. Dark Sky by C.J. Box
57. Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl
58. Pastoral Song by James Rebanks
58. City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman
59. The It Girl by Ruth Ware
59. The Fix by David Baldacci
59. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
60. Through the Mountains by John Ross
60. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

60. The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
61. The Jailhouse Lawyer by James Patterson
62. Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
63. The Horsewoman by James Patterson
64. Hideaway by Nora Roberts
65. The Match by Harlan Coben
65. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
66. Peril by Bob Woodward
66. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
66. The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follet
67. Three Sisters by Heather Morris
67. Give Unto Others by Donna Leon
67. Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
67. Bewilderment by Richard Powers

*Duplicate numbering indicates ties. 100 titles are listed.

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