The Panorama Project is delighted to announced 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 illustrate both shared 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 eBooks from public libraries throughout the United States. The resulting lists of recently published titles have notably longer wait times for patrons of local libraries. This unmet demand represents sales and merchandising opportunities for booksellers, serves as a reference for collection development librarians, and offers insights to publishing professionals looking for trends in readers’ preferences.
Noted Daniel Albohn, Panorama’s Project Lead, “We’re delighted to report on the circulation of eBooks through public libraries. While there are a plethora of book lists and industry reports, none can offer this timely and statistically significant view into the circulation of eBooks. The Panorama Picks represent a reliable and complementary resource, and industry stakeholders should take note. We’re pleased to make these lists freely available to authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, librarians and book lovers everywhere. As always, I welcome your correspondence and feedback with the goal of improving or expanding upon this initiative.”
The new national and regional Panorama Picks measure activity in public libraries from January 2022 through March 2022 and feature books published from January 2021 through September 2021.
Adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q1 2022
Adult Fiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Finley Donovan Is Killing It – A Mystery (Elle Cosimano, St. Martin’s Publishing Group), Neon Gods (Katee Robert, Sourcebooks), It Happened One Summer (Tessa Bailey, HarperCollins), The Five Wounds (Kirsten Valdez Quade, W.W. Norton & Co.), Rock Paper Scissors (Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books), The Second Mrs. Astor (Shana Abe, Kensington Books), The Atlas Six (Olivie Blake, Tom Doherty Associates), Lucky (Marissa Stapley, Simon & Schuster), The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (India Holton, Penguin Publishing Group), and The Crown of Gilded Bones (Jennifer L. Armentrout, Evil Eye Concepts, Inc.).
Adult nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q1 2022
Adult Nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include The Way of Integrity (Martha Beck, Penguin Publishing Group), How to Not Die Alone (Logan Ury, Simon & Schuster), The Explosive Child (Ross W. Greene, PhD, HarperCollins), People Love Dead Jews (Dara Horn, W.W. Norton & Co.), Set Boundaries, Find Peace (Nedra Glover Tawwab, Penguin Publishing), All That She Carried (Tiya Miles, Random House Publishing Group), The Comfort Book (Matt Haig, Penguin Publishing Group), The High 5 Habit (Mel Robbins, Hay House), The Weekday Vegetarians (Jenny Rosenstrach, Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed), and The Extended Mind (Annie Murphy Paul, HarperCollins).
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q1 2022
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Twisted Ones (Scott Cawthon, Scholastic, Inc.), Better Than the Movies (Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven (Kami Garcia, DC Comics), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Volumes 20-23 (Koyoharu Gotouge, VIZ Media), Sunreach (Skyward Flight) (Brandon Sanderson, Random House Children’s Books), Gods and Monsters (Shelby Mahurin, HarperCollins), Kingdom of Rebels and Thorns (Frost Kay, Renegade Publishing, LLC), Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer, Bloomsbury Publishing), You'd Be Home Now (Kathleen Glasgow, Random House Children’s Books), and Those Hollow Vows (Lexi Ryan, HarperCollins).
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. Earlier in 2021 and in cooperation with Drs. Rachel Noorda and Kathi Inman Berens of Portland State University, Panorama Project published the seminal work, Immersive Media & Books 2020, a comprehensive open-access report that has garnered considerable attention throughout the book publishing sector and is freely available here. The research and report were made possible through the generous funding from OverDrive, the Book Industry Study Group, the American Library Association and the Independent Book Publishers Group.
The project is led by Daniel Albohn and an advisory council representing multiple industry stakeholder groups. Current members are from Penguin Random House, Sourcebooks, Open Road Media, the American Library Association, the Audio Publishers Association, NISO, OverDrive, and the Ingram Content Group. Funding is provided by OverDrive.
Contact
To discuss the Panorama Picks and the mission and goals of the Panorama Project, authors and agents, librarians, publishers, booksellers, journalists and all who have interests in reading, literacy and the business of book publishing are encouraged to touch base.
Daniel R. Albohn
Project Lead, Panorama Project