Des Moines Public Library's most requested items of 2021

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The list of the most popular books, DVDs and streaming films at the Des Moines Public Library in 2021 features everything from blockbuster bestsellers to film-inspired classics – with a few surprises, too.

For even more top requested lists, go to dmpl.org/most-popular-books-2021.

Top 10 Fiction

  1. The Four Winds, by Kirstin Hannah
  2. The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave
  3. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
  4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by Ve.E. Schwab
  5. Apples Never Fall, by Liane Moriarty
  6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  7. The Guest List, by Lucy Foley
  8. Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  9. Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman
  10. People We Meet on Vacation, by Emily Henry

Top 10 Nonfiction

  1. A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
  2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  3. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
  4. Greenlights, by Matthew McConaughey
  5. Untamed, by Glennon Doyle
  6. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, by Malcolm Gladwell
  7. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker
  8. Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover
  9. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, by Mark Manson
  10. Becoming, by Michelle Obama

Top 10 Teen Fiction

  1. Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
  2. Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley
  3. Dune, by Frank Herbert
  4. Siege and Storm, by Leigh Bardugo
  5. Pride, by Ibi Zoboi
  6. Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo
  7. Concrete Rose, by Angie Thomas
  8. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
  9. One of Us is Lying, by Karen M. McManus
  10. Ruin and Rising, by Leigh Bardugo

Top 10 DVDs

  1. News of the World
  2. Black Widow
  3. Minari
  4. Promising Young Woman
  5. Wonder Woman 1984
  6. The Father
  7. A Quiet Place Part II
  8. Soul
  9. Judas and the Black Messiah
  10. Raya and the Last Dragon

Top 10 Streaming Movies (Kanopy)

  1. The Big Short
  2. What We Do in the Shadows
  3. Finding Oscar
  4. Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump
  5. Dial M For Murder
  6. I, Tonya
  7. Parasite
  8. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
  9. Another Round
  10. The Kindness of Strangers

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Des Moines Public Library's most requested items of 2021
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