The Panorama Project is delighted 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 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 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. 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 very fortunate to have access to significant data that represents the circulation of e-books 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 e-books. Panorama Picks serves as a reliable and complementary resource offering insights to all industry stakeholders, and we are pleased to make them freely available to authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, librarians and book lovers everywhere. As always, I welcome recommendations from all beneficiaries to improve or expand upon our initiative.”
The new lists measure public library activity from July 2021 through September 2021 and feature books published from July 2020 through March 2021.
Adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q3 2021
Adult Fiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include The Quiet Girl (S. F. Kosa, Sourcebooks), Fresh Water for Flowers (Valerie Perrin, Europe Editions), A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Jennifer L. Armentrout, Evil Eye Concepts), Land of Big Numbers (Te-Ping Chen HMH Books), The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit), No One Is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood, Riverhead Books), The Thursday Murder Club – A Novel (Richard Osman, Penguin Publishing Group), The Roommate (Rosie Danan, Penguin Publishing Group), At Night All Blood Is Black (David Diop, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Bridgerton Collection, Volume 2 (Julia Quinn, Avon), Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Elle Cosimano, St. Martin’s Publishing), The Nature of Fragile Things (Susan Meissner, Penguin Publishing Group), The Women of Chateau Lafayette (Stephanie Dray, Penguin Publishing Group), and Surviving Savannah (Patti Callahan, Penguin Publishing Group).
Adult nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q3 2021
Adult Nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess (Dr. Caroline Leaf, Baker Publishing), Under a White Sky (Elizabeth Kolbert, Crown), Laziness Does Not Exist (Devon Price, Atria Books), Burn (Herman Pontzer PhD, Penguin Publishing), Ace (Angela Chen, Beacon Press) The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook (America’s Test Kitchen, America’s Test Kitchen), ADHD 2.0 (Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., Random House Publishing), All We Can Save (Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Random House Publishing), and How to Not Die Alone (Logan Ury, Simon & Schuster).
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q3 2021
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include both Covet and Crush (Tracy Wolff, Entangled Publishing, LLC), Heartstopper, Volume 2 (Alice Oseman, Scholastic Inc.), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Volumes 15, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 20 - Koyoharu Gotouge, Viz Media), Twisted Ones (Scott Cawthon, Scholastic Inc.), Today, Tonight, Tomorrow (Rachel Lynn Solomon, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), Namesake (Adrienne Young, St. Martin’s Publishing Group), How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), Yolk (Mary H.K. Choi, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), and Throne of Glass eBook Bundle (Sarah J. Maas, 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. Earlier this year, in cooperation with Drs. Rachel Noorda and Kathi Inman Berens of Portland State University and with generous funding from OverDrive, Book Industry Study Group, American Library Association and Independent Book Publishers Group, Panorama published the seminal work, Immersive Media & Books 2020, a comprehensive open-access report that has gained much attention throughout the book publishing sector and is freely available here.
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. Funding is provided by OverDrive.
Contact
For more information about Panorama Picks and the Panorama Project, please contact:
Daniel R. Albohn
Project Lead, Panorama Project