Most Wanted Items
Jail Library Group volunteers gather data about the most popular and frequently requested items, authors, subjects, and fiction genres. These are the results:
Most wanted items
Most wanted magazines
- Dictionaries
- Almanacs
- Atlases
- Thesauri
- Large print, in genres other than romance
- New fiction in Spanish
- Donald Goines
- Stephen King
- James Patterson
- Contemporary poetry
- Religion (especially Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam)
- Astrology
- Psychology and self-help
- Yoga
- Personal finance, career, and business
- Drawing how-to books
- African-American nonfiction topics: Black history, slavery, Black nationalism
- Horror: Stephen King
- Urban: Donald Goines, Nikki Turner, Sister Souljah
- Westerns: Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey
- Romance: Nicholas Sparks, Nora Roberts
- Science fiction/fantasy: Terry Pratchett, Brandon Sanderson
- Mystery/suspense: James Patterson, John Grisham, David Baldacci, Lee Child
Most wanted magazines
- Cosmopolitan
- Men's Health
- Esquire
- Car and Driver
- Wired