Brooklyn Public Library: 125 Most Borrowed Books (opens in new tab)

I bet you could tell a lot about a city and its neighbourhoods if libraries regularly did this. It would be quite interesting.

In this list, I see so many books that I either read in school, or know about because of school (fellow students having read them, or family members, etc). And it's the first month of the school year, so that is hardly surprising. I bet there is a lot of data to be mined if this was a regular thing.

At least 4 or 5 Manga titles and not one Marvel or DC or indie Western graphic novel or comic series. Manga is dominating the sequential art market in Brooklyn, where I was born and lived most of my youth. Even though Spiderman was from Queens, we accepted him ;l

I worked at the Brooklyn Museum in the mid-80s, which is right around the corner along with the the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, and Prospect Park. I also lived 5 blocks from the NY Public Library in the late 80s, and I have fond memories of spending my time at all of them. After rent in NYC, not much cash leftover, so not bad places to hang instead of being the guttersnipes we were in our youth.

Such an intriguing list. I don't think I would appreciate it so much as I do given I am a parent.