Most Circulated Titles

Death note. Vol. 1, Boredom.

Ohba, Tsugumi.


"This book reads from right to left"--Cover p. [4]. . Light Yagami is an ace student and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. .
Date Published:2003

November 9 /

Hoover, Colleen.


"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Can Ben's relationship with Fallon and simultaneously his novel be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?"--
Date Published:2015

"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Can Ben's relationship with Fallon and simultaneously his novel be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?"--

Date Published:2015

Lord of the flies : a novel.

Golding, William.


"A Wideview/Perigee Book" . Classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
Date Published:1954

Fahrenheit 451.

Bradbury, Ray.


National Book Award. . Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames ... until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do.... .
Date Published:1951

National Book Award. . Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames ... until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do.... .

Date Published:1951

Shiver : selected stories /

Ito, Junji, 1963-,


Manga. Translation of: ItÅ junji jisen kessakushÅ«. Originally published in Japan in 2015 by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., Tokyo, through Tohan Corporation, Tokyo. Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. "This volume includes nine of Junji Ito's best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl's window... After an idol hangs herself, balloons bearing faces appear in the sky, some even featuring your own face... An amateur film crew hires an extremely individualistic fashion model and faces a real bloody ending... An offering of nine fresh nightmares for the delectation of horror fans"--Amazon.
Date Published:2017

Manga. Translation of: ItÅ junji jisen kessakushÅ«. Originally published in Japan in 2015 by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., Tokyo, through Tohan Corporation, Tokyo. Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. "This volume includes nine of Junji Ito's best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl's window... After an idol hangs herself, balloons bearing faces appear in the sky, some even featuring your own face... An amateur film crew hires an extremely individualistic fashion model and faces a real bloody ending... An offering of nine fresh nightmares for the delectation of horror fans"--Amazon.

Date Published:2017

It.

King, Stephen.


There's something very ominous going on in Derry, Maine, but the town's teenagers seem to be the only ones noticing. But "it" is there all right, and its evil presence emerges from storm drains, sewers, sinks...everywhere, tormenting the teens and thrusting them into a nightmare they won't be able to forget.
Date Published:1986

Hunger games


In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Date Published:2008

Handmaid's tale

Atwood, Margaret.


This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
Date Published:1985

Days gone bye

Kirkman, Robert.


The world they knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled. No government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, they are forced to finally start living.
Date Published:2014

The world they knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled. No government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, they are forced to finally start living.

Date Published:2014

1984 : a novel.

Orwell, George.


This satirical novel shows a chilling portrait of life in a future when a totalitarian government watches over the citizens and bans privacy, love and individuality.
Date Published:1977

Pet sematary

King, Stephen.


When the Creeds, an ideal loving family, found the old house in rural Maine, it seemed too good to be true... it was. The truth was bloodchilling--something more horrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful...
Date Published:1983

Thinner

King, Stephen, 1947-,


"The "extraordinary" (booklist) novel of one man's quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes ... nothing at all. this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, "pulsates with evil ... it will have you on the edge of your seat" (publishers weekly)"--
Date Published:2018

Animal farm : a fairy story.

Orwell, George,


Tells of the simple tragic fable, of what happens when the animals drive out Mr. Jones and attempt to run their farm themselves. Satire on dictatorship.
Date Published:2021

Maze runner.

Dashner, James.


Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Date Published:2009

Wuthering Heights.

Brontë, Emily.


Catherine and Heathcliff are wildly in love, but their longing for each other is thwarted, resulting in violence and misery.
Date Published:2001

I Am Still Alive.

Marshall, Kate.


Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded.
Date Published:2018

What the night sings

Stamper, Vesper,


Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
Date Published:2018

Nemesis

Reichs, Brendan,


As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, Idaho.
Date Published:2017

Catcher in the rye.

Salinger, J. D.


J.D. Salinger. Young Holden Caufield, knowing he is to be dropped by his school, decides to leave early and not report home until he has to. He spends three days and nights in New York City and this is the story in his own words of what he did and saw and suffered. .
Date Published:1951

Fault in our stars.

Green, John.


Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Date Published:2012