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These Were The Most In-Demand New York Library Books Of 2015

Shout-out to the people who are still on waiting lists.

Both the New York Public Library (which covers the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island) and Queens Library shared the most popular check-outs this year.* Here's what library card-holding New Yorkers were reading:

*Unfortunately, Brooklyn Public Library didn't have the data to share, so we'll have to use our imaginations.

The Bronx

1. TASC: Test Assessing Secondary Completion: Strategies, Practice, & Review by Kaplan

2. NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp

3. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

4. Prodigal Son by Danielle Steel

5. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

6. The Family Business 3 by Carl Weber

7. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

8. Pegasus by Danielle Steel

9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

10. Grey by E.L. James

Manhattan

1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

2. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

3. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

4. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

5. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

6. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

7. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

8. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

9. NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp

10. Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Queens

1. Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

2. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

3. Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham

4. Grey by E.L. James

5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

6. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

7. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

8. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

9. Memory Man by David Baldacci

10. The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman

Staten Island

1. NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp

2. Prodigal Son by Danielle Steel

3. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

4. Pegasus by Danielle Steel

5. Country by Danielle Steel

6. Undercover by Danielle Steel

7. Hush by Karen Robards

8. The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

9. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

10. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume