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The numbers are in!
Here they are: LCPL's most borrowed books of 2022!
Have you read these? Feel like you missed out on a great read? Scandalized your fav didn't make it? The cure for all of these is to go straight to your library (or library app) and start checking things out!*
We've got categories for adults, YA, and kids, so don't be daunted by that Read More we put there to save your dash (you're welcome).
*If your library is not LCPL this won't help at all with next year's numbers, but it WILL make us happy. And it'll make your librarians happy, too, which is the real prize**
**it's not, the real prize is books
Top Adult Fiction:
1: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
2: Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
3: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
4: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
5: 22 Seconds by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Top Adult Nonfiction:
1: Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue (The reigning champ from 2021!)
2: Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
3: Super Easy! by Ree Drummond
4: The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
5: Betrayal by Jonathan Karl
Top Adult eBooks & eAudiobooks:
1: Verity by Colleen Hoover
2: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
3: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
4: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
5: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Top YA Books:
1: One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
2: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
4: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
5: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Top YA eBooks & eAudiobooks:
1: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
2: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
3: Heartstopper Vol 1 by Alice Oseman
4: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
5: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Top Kids Books:
1: Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm & Matt Holm
2: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by Jeff Kinney
3: Dog Man: Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey
4: Dog Man: Grime and Punishment by Dav Pilkey
5: Cat Kid: Comic Club Perspectives by Dav Pilkey
Top Kids eBooks & eAudiobooks:
1: Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
2: Dog Man: Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey
3: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by Jeff Kinney
4: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End by Jeff Kinney
5: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
#most read#but actually most checked out we have no idea if you actually read them#end of year list#heartstopper#alice oseman#e lockhart#the summer I turned pretty#colleen hoover#where the crawdads sing#LCPL recs#babymouse#we were liars#delia owens#it ends with us#diary of a wimpy kid#jeff kinney#eiichiro oda#one piece#kids books#nonfiction#young adult#fiction#LCPLWrapped#dav pilkey#j.k. rowling#harry potter and the sorcerer's stone#dog man#cat kid#harry potter and the goblet of fire#harry potter and the order of the phoenix
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i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
#i love reading your examples! however next person to be like um actually this exists?? it’s on sight#i know it exists. i think it’s fun. that’s why i think more people should do it.#sometimes i think the confessional style loses impact because everything has to be excavated from the depths of the soul#and somehow. confessional writing seems to be going with the most disaffected bland sound possible. odd.#i love deeply personal songs! i love when songs sound like they mean something to the artist!#something something wider issue of mining trauma and being performatively vulnerable for quote unquote content#idk i don’t have the actual knowledge to write about this well there’s just something not landing for me recently#mine
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academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”
#historians are out there beefing with ppl who died over 200 years ago. good for them#history#history memes#this isn’t really about anyone in particular#but I did read the most hilariously bitter takes on alexander I#not that it’s hard to poke fun at his vanity and indicisive nature but like. he was just a poor little meow meow#although I have some weird grudges against dead ppl as well *cough* Catherine II *cough*
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dragon meat, you, and me
#marcille donato#falin touden#farcille#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#tw blood#tw body horror#tw gore#as a normal farcille fan this revival has been on my mind since i first read it and getting to watch it is like yippee!!#like messy revivals are everything - the consequences that will haunt u for the rest of the time they are alive#the initial hopeful moments where it all seemed well but quickly descend to That not being the case - losing not only the bit of evidence#evidence that your dream may work out but also someone you deeply care about in the process… marcille my Beloved#ofc wholly thruout the journey - at the forefront of it - getting falin back was the most crucial point but so wuickly :(( it was lost#on the other end its crazy to think about the compoments of falin now - human - dragon (dungeon) - marcille’s magic and desperation#the food the crew cooked (digested) - she is made of many parts!!#also i did not realize how medical it feels to draw smth like this. i dont usually explore the inner parts or use a lot of blood#in my work so rendering everything and looking up refs it felt quite magical (?)#ruporas art
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i am not at all caught up with fantasy high freshman and sophomore year but i’ve jumped into the middle of things and this today nearly made me bawl
life kinda sucks and i haven’t time to enjoy my comfort media but junior year’s been…. it’s really been a wonderful thing to have this to look forward to every week
#dimension 20#fantasy high junior year#fantasy high junior year spoilers#fhjy#d20#fhjy spoilers#d20 spoilers#ayda aguefort#figueroth faeth#my art#hello people. how long has it been good lord#deepest thanks to the phoenix lover whom i only know by her absence#and the most poetic and romantic letter i’ve read in a long time
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when it rains, it pours
#reading through post war stuff with my head in my hands#it’s getting me rly bad guys. It’s getting me rly bad#anyways you ever think about luzo being so in tune w/ eo that even strange cosmic forces pick up and reflect their emotions#something something zoro couldnt be there for his captain when he needed him the most and spent two years in penance without the sun#roronoa zoro#one piece#monkey d. luffy#one piece fanart#zoro#luffy#my art#luzo#zolu
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really surprised i have of yet to see this reading of laios' and toshiro's relationship before tbh
#jonnie's thoughts#dungeon meshi#although given how people are so prone to projecting onto the cast and most of them. are white. that tracks#i dont say that as a negative per say or to negate the more popular reading#but this one just seemed more obvious to me?
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inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is
#sorry this was funnier in my head#but after i read that post I COULD NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT#gen z batkids is the most Cursed thing i've read today and i love it#at first i had so many Thoughts about how my brain CANNOT reconcile tim as anything but a 90s kid but then i read that line about damian and#i feel like they'd mess with him sometimes by randomly quoting memes in unison#almost started to overthink how in This Particular Timeline jason might have missed out on this meme because he was Not Alive#but for the purposes of this silly joke i choose to believe dates are irrelevant#that is all thank you#clarisse doodles#batfam#damian wayne#dick grayson#jason todd
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people are really looking at stats to determine if a fic is worth reading? no wonder fics that never got popular at the first drop never had a chance 💀
#also people don't really leave kudos anymore#or comments#so stats are fallible!!#don't do this i beg of you#best fic i ever read: barely 100 kudos#worst fic i ever read: most popular in a fandom based on stats#i'm just saying!!!
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Can you guys stop saying Biden and the democratic party enthusiastically supporting genocide against Palestinians is only a moral flaw that makes him an imperfect candidate please
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please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!
do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!
#i am so sick of writers having to anticipate the most boring#bad-faith readings of their work. i am like - if you use cheese as a currency#okay! as long as the world makes sense to me: cool. cheese tax. moving on.#my job as the reader is to suspend my disbelief and say i am so sick of like#fanfiction authors having to write dissertations#because they had an interesting idea they'd like to try out!!!#just write it! if it doesn't make sense that's someone else's problem!!!#PS OP is autistic. yes sometimes i take things literally at first glance. then i think about it lol#this is so clearly not about accessibility etc. it's about like. girl even i an autistic person#am able to understand ''they probably didn't mean his eyes darkened LITERALLY''
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just some designs mainly created because I wanted to draw hakama and then it spiral out from there
bald zuko under the cute
#avatar the last airbender#atla redesigns#atla#atla fanart#atla zuko#atla azula#atla sokka#atla katara#atla aang#avatar aang#toph beifong#my art#I also have some wip designs for summer clothes for most of them and before anyone says anything for the fire nation theyre thai inspired#doing research for this spiraled into reading 3 fairly big books in the span of 2 weeks just cause#i ALSO have adult designs cooking#this was really inspired by all the girls on campus in their hakama a few weeks ago...wahhh so pretty
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🐣 ok we are so back………..
#damian wayne#batman and robin#batman#dc comics#i just found out damian is still the character i have have drawn the most to this very day 🤡#i just finished replaying arkham asylum#i am playing arkham city#i just spent $81 to finish my B&R n52 collection#when i say we are so back i mean it#but for how long?????????????????#too scared to read the new stuff bc apparently they put damian on trial and sentenced him to character growth DEATH
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kras mazov lookin ass
#unironically started understanding disco elysium when i started reading more leftist literature. would recommend#i still think the gameplay is kind of a hard sell for most people but ykw. joyce messier as a concept has been immeasurably valuable to me#everytime i talk to my boss and im confused by her politics i think wow....its just like joyce messier#i don't know how you can claim to have all these socialist values and still uphold the capitalist system for your own comfort...WAIT.....#it's just like joyce messier.........#disco elysium#my art
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Everyone thinks that dick was the golden child when in reality it was Jason.
Clark: Bruce who was your favourite robin?
Dick: obviously it’s me?
Tim: it’s dick
Damian: I am superior robin, it will be me.
Bruce: it’s Jason
Everyone: WHAT?!?!???
Bruce: why are you so surprised? He didn’t jump on too my chandeliers which I had to replace each week
*everyone looks at dick*
Bruce: he didn’t drop out of school
*everyone looks at tim*
Bruce: I didn’t have to stop him from killing everyone who annoyed him
*everyone looks at Damian*
Bruce: in fact, he enjoyed school and handed all his homework in on time, we would spend hours in the library reading his favourite classics. He even helped Alfred with most of the cooking, He was my little boy
Jason: stop spreading lies, I hate you go away
Bruce: my precious little boy
#jason todd#Bruce Wayne#dick Grayson#Damian Wayne#tim Drake#clark kent#Batman#alfred pennyworth#Bruce: he my little baby#jason: I’m 6’2 and have the ability to kill you if I wanted#Bruce: my baby my little son#jason: GOD YOURE SO EMBARRASSING DAD#jason was probably the most behaved child before he went boom boom and I stand by that#he enjoyed school#most likey hated it when he missed it#and he loves classic literature???#bros a huge nerd#yea dick is all smiles but probably gave Bruce’s near death heart attacks everytime he swung from chandeliers and rooftops#jason just wanted to live his life in the library reading his fav books and homework
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getting used to & comfortable with your own bare chest as a neutral & not inherently gendered thing over the course of an evening alone and then having to go out in public again the next day & feel weird about it again like prometheus and his liver except every day you're forced to regrow an awareness of society gendering anatomy
#deeply annoying to be able to personally easily read breasts as a masculine feature but also being deeply aware most people can/will not#thoughts
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