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Patch in 2011: Lower Merion's Most Popular Books

Staff for the Lower Merion Library System talked with Patch.

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The year 2011 was a good year to have written about southern maids, one's suburban Philadelphia upbringing or complicated Swedish crime-fighters—judging by the reading habits of Lower Merion's library patrons, anyway.

Margery Hall, head librarian at , broke down the favorites into 10 fiction and 10 non-fiction titles:

Fiction

  1. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
  2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson
  3. The Confession, John Grisham
  4. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
  5. Sing You Home, Jodi Picoult
  6. Save Me, Lisa Scottoline
  7. Fly Away Home, Jennifer Weiner
  8. Room, Emma Donoghue
  9. Tick Tock, James Patterson
  10. Hell’s Corner, David Baldacci

Non-fiction

  1. Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
  2. Bossypants, Tina Fey
  3. Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
  4. In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
  5. Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff
  6. The Red Garden, Alice Hoffman
  7. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua
  8. Life, Keith Richards
  9. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
  10. The Greater Journey, David McCullough

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