The Year in Review: AAPLD’s Top Checkouts of 2023

As we say goodbye to 2023 and hello to 2024, we are excited to reveal the titles YOU checked out the most last year!

Fiction

Verity by Colleen Hoover

It might not have been your day, your week, your month, or even your year…but it was definitely Colleen Hoover’s. Our five most checked-out fiction titles were all authored by the TikTok phenomenon: It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, Reminders of Him, Never Never, and Verity.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen quickly uncovers an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended anyone to read, with pages of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of the night their family was forever altered. For fans of psychological thrillers.

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Millie is desperate to get a decent job, and fast. When she gets an offer from Nina Winchester to be a housemaid in her beautiful home, she is more than happy to overlook all the small issues that come with the position. But once settled in, the piling mess of all the things that don’t add up gets harder and harder to ignore: the fact that the door to her room only locks on the outside, Nina’s unreasonable demands. But Millie isn’t exactly in a position to quit. And with her growing attraction to Nina’s handsome husband Andrew, she’s not even sure she’d want to. For fans of Ruth Ware and Gillian Flynn. If you enjoy this title, be sure to check out The Housemaid’s Secret.

Hello Beautiful: A Novel by Ann Napolitano

William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it’s a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a college scholarship, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three younger sisters. But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable loyalty to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most? For fans of Ann Patchett and Barbara Kingsolver.

 

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