What’d you read in 2023? Let us make an educated guess... without spying on your Goodreads “Year in Books.”
Hillsborough County residents checked out 8.5 million library materials in 2023 — breaking down to 3.6+ million books, audiobooks, and movies + 4.9+ million digital items (think eBooks and eMagazines). The Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library system just released its list of the most checked out books last year for both adults and the kiddos, and here are the volumes TBAY couldn’t put down:
2023 Top 5 Adult Fiction
- “Desert Star” by Michael Connelly
- “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham
- “Long Shadows” by David Baldacci
- “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus
- “No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel” by Lee Child + Andrew Child
2023 Top Young Adult Fiction
- “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson
- “The Summer I Turned Pretty” by Jenny Han
- “The Inheritance Games” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- “Six of Crows” by Leigh Bardugo
- “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” by Suzanne Collins
