Wareham Library Director Patrick Marshall compiled a list of the books most checked out from the library during 2021. To check out these or other titles, stop by the library or go online to warehamfreelibrary.org. To get a library card, visit the library. 

“Your library card will give you access to the world with no interest charges or annual fees.  It’s the best bargain around,” said Marshall.

Here are the top books, accompanied by descriptions from the library’s NoveList Reader’s Advisory Database.

5. Missing and Endangered: A Brady Novel of Suspense by Judith A Jance – Protecting a brilliant freshman whose homeschooled life has left her unprepared for the outside world, Jennifer invites the vulnerable girl home for a Christmas break that embroils Sheriff Joanna Brady in a volatile missing person’s case.  

4. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman – Meeting weekly in their retirement village’s jigsaw room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case.  

3. Deadly Cross by James Patterson – Investigating the assassination of the vice president’s wife, Detective Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to uncover clues from the victim’s early life.  

2. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah – A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California.

1. Ocean Prey by John Sandford – Picking up a stalled FBI case involving three murdered Coast Guardsmen, Lucas Davenport teams up with Detective Virgil Flowers to investigate the suspicious activities of a sophisticated boat and mysterious diver.  

The Four Winds was the number one book checked out for the SAILS Network as a whole but, the number two and three slots went to these particular titles.

Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand – Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three “nudges” to alter the outcome of events.  

The Midnight Library – by Matt Haig – Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality.  One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life.  Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one as she searches within herself travelling through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.