County Library Top Checkouts Offer Inspiration for your 2023 Reading List

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Is ‘reading more’ one of your New Year’s Resolutions for 2023? If so, San Diego County Library (SDCL) is one of the best places to get you started on your reading goals.

SDCL offers books, movies, magazines, movies and more. Both digital copies and physical materials are available for checkout.

Getting a library card is free and easy. Just visit one of the library’s 33 branch locations, or apply for a digital card online.

Record-Breaking Checkouts

You’ll be in great company with your 2023 reading challenge. SDCL patrons checked out more than four million digital copies of e-books, audio books and digital magazines in 2022.

That’s a new record for SDCL, making it one of the most-used digital collections in the nation.

Digital downloads have gained in popularity in the last years, in part due to the pandemic. SDCL issued close to 40,000 library cards in 2022 and most of these new customers used the library’s digital services.

Top Checkouts

Still need some more motivation to get you started? SDCL has released its top 10 checkout lists for 2022. Get some inspiration for your 2023 reading list and see if your favorite books, audio books and movies from last year made the cut.

Adult Books (e-book and physical book checkouts combined)

1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
2. Apples Never Fall by Lianne Moriarty
3. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
4. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
5. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
8. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
10. Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Downloadable audiobooks:

1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
3. Apples Never Fall by Lianne Moriarty
4. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
7. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
8. Dune by Frank Herbert
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
10. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Movies:

1. Ghostbusters Afterlife
2. Spider-Man, No Way Home
3. Dune
4. Encanto
5. Uncharted
6. No Time to Die
7. The Batman
8. The Matrix, Resurrections
9. Venom, Let There Be Carnage
10. The Dry

Teen Fiction:

1. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
3. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
4. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
5. The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
6. It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
7. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
8. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
9. Heartstopper, Volume 1 by Alice Oseman

Children’s Books

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Big Shot by Jeff Kinney
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg Heffley’s Journal by Jeff Kinney
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Deep End by Jeff Kinney
4. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney
6. Dog Man, Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey
7. Cat Kid Comic Club Perspectives by Dav Pilkey
8. Dog Man, Grime and Punishment by Dav Pilkey
9. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney
10. Cat Kid Comic Club, On Purpose by Dav Pilkey