The Panorama Project is pleased to announce the latest Panorama Picks which showcase recent Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, and Young Adult titles with the highest unmet demand in US public libraries. The nine regional lists, representing the eight regions of the American Booksellers Association plus Hawaii, feature 25 titles in each category and reflect the overlapping and unique interests of readers from across the country.
Panorama Picks are unique from other lists in that they are derived from anonymized hold list data for e-books from public libraries throughout the United States. The resulting lists of recently published titles have notably longer wait times for local library patrons and this unmet demand represents sales potential for booksellers as well as opportunities for author events, read-alikes, and special promotions.
Noted Daniel Albohn, Panorama’s Project Lead, “We are very fortunate to have access to these circulation figures from public libraries and to be able to share with all in the book community. We will continue to publish Panorama Picks on a quarterly basis and promote our findings to local booksellers as well as to publishers and authors. However, I welcome comments and recommendations on how we can improve this initiative for the benefit of all.”
The new lists measure public library activity from January 2021 through March 2021 and feature books published from January 2020 through September 2020.
Adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q1 2021
Adult Fiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include A Kingdom of Flesh & Fire (Jennifer L. Armentrout, Evil Eye Concepts), From Blood and Ash (Jennifer L. Armentrout, Evil Eye Concepts), Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu, Knopf Doubleday), The Book of Lost Names (Kristin Harmel, Gallery Books), To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Christopher Paolini, Tom Doherty Associates), Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury), One by One (Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press), The Henna Artist (Alka Joshi, MIRA Books), Deacon King (James McBride, Penguin), The Book of Lost Friends (Lisa Wingate, Random House), The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd, Penguin), and Oona Out of Order (Margarita Montimore, Flatiron Books)
Adult nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q1 2021
Adult Nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Jesus & John Wayne (Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Liveright), Ace (Angela Chen, Beacon Press), The Power of Ritual (Casper ter Kuile, HarperOne), Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake, Random House), World of Wonders (Aimee Nezhukumatathil), The Answer Is... (Alex Trebek, Simon & Schuster), The Magical Language of Others (E.J. Koh, Tin House Books), Why Fish Don't Exist (Lulu Miller, Simon & Schuster), Gentle & Lowly (Dane C. Ortlund, Crossway), Owls of the Eastern Ice (Jonathan C. Slaught, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), Limitless (Jim Kwik, Hay House), and Evil Geniuses (Kurt Andersen, Random House).
Young adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q1 2021
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Crave (Tracy Wolff, Entangled Publishing), Crush (Tracy Wolff, Entangled Publishing), Teen Titans: Beast Boy (Kami Garcia, DC Comics), Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas, Feiwel & Friends), Breathless (Jennifer Niven, Random House Children’s Books), The Peasant's Dream (Melanie Dickerson, Thomas Nelson), Rage & Ruin (Jennifer L. Armentrout, Inkyard Press), Raybearer (Jordan Ifueko, Abrams), Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rachel Lynn Solomon, Simon & Schuster), Blood & Honey (Shelby Mahurin, HarperTeen), A Heart So Fierce & Broken (Brigid Kemmerer, Bloomsbury), and Cinderella Is Dead (Kalynn Bayron, Bloomsbury)
About the Panorama Project
The Panorama Project is a cross-industry research initiative working towards purposeful collaboration and transparency to more accurately measure the role public libraries play in the book business, while partnering with publishers and libraries to measure and analyze the impact of library marketing and events on discovery of specific titles and authors, and sales via local booksellers and beyond.
The project is led by Daniel Albohn and an advisory council which includes members from Penguin Random House, Sourcebooks, Open Road Media, American Library Association, Audio Publishers Association, NISO, OverDrive, and Ingram Content Group. Initial funding is being provided by OverDrive, Inc.
Contact
For more information about Panorama Picks and the Panorama Project, please contact
Daniel R. Albohn
Project Lead, Panorama Project
projectlead@panoramaproject.org