Top ten most ILL'd titles of 2017

At the end of March, OCLC released the top 10 most shared titles in 2017. This list mirrors what we have seen in WISCAT ILL requests.

For the second year in a row, the most requested title was Hillbilly Elegy. It was published in June 2016 and has been on the New York Times bestseller list ever since. Here are the top 10 in order of popularity:

1. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
2. Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow,Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
3. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
4. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
5. Iris & Lily: Book One by by Angela and Julie Scipioni
6. Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth Klarman
7. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
9. Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
10. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Written by:  Christine Barth, Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning