What Were The Most Popular Books In Andover In 2020?

Andover MA

11 January, 2021

10:09 PM

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ANDOVER, MA — Andover loves Delia Owens and Michelle Obama: For the second year in a row, their books were near the top of Memorial Hall Library's most checked-out books. But after leading the fiction and non-fiction categories in 2019, Owens' "Where the Crawdads Sing" and Obama's "Becoming" both trailed Ann Patchett's "The Dutch House," which came out in late 2019. Clare Curran-Ball of Memorial Hall Library shared with Patch the library's 20 most popular titles last year. Repeat appearances are marked with an asterisk. The Dutch House by Ann PatchettSummary from the library catalog: "At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another."Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens*Becoming by Michelle Obama*Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover*Such a Fun Age by Kiley ReidThe Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesThe Night Fire by Michael ConnellyOlive Again by Elizabeth StroutAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsThe Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides*A minute to Midnight by David BaldacciMrs. Everything by Jennifer WeinerThe Family Upstairs by Lisa JewellWalk the Wire by David BaldacciThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather MorrisThe Lost Family by Jenna BlumThe Boy from the Woods by Harlan CobenThe Red Lotus by Chris BojhalianDear Edward by Ann NapolitanoThe Beantown Girls by Jane HealeyChristopher Huffaker can be reached at 412-265-8353 or [email protected].