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 circulation figures from public libraries, enabling Panorama to share and inform all in the book community. We publish Panorama Picks on a quarterly basis and endeavor to promote our findings to local booksellers while showcasing these fine authors and their publishers. As always, I welcome recommendations from all beneficiaries to improve or expand upon our initiative.”
The new lists measure public library activity from April 2021 through June 2021 and feature books published from April 2020 through December 2020.
Adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q2 2021
Adult Fiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Jennifer L. Armentrout, Evil Eye Concepts), Miss Benson’s Beetle (Rachel Joyce, Random House Publishing Group), The Henna Artist – A Novel (Alka Joshi, MIRA Books), Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse, Gallery/Saga Press), The Thursday Murder Club – A Novel (Richard Osman, Penguin Publishing Group), Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing), The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit), The Roommate (Rosie Danan, Penguin Publishing Group), Fifty Words for Rain (Asha Lemmie, Penguin Publishing Group), The Once and Future Witches (Alix E. Harrow, Orbit), Code Name Helene (Ariel Lawhon, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group), The Orphan Collector (Ellen Marie Wiseman, Kensington Books), The Wrong Family (Tarryn Fisher, Graydon House Books), To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Christopher Paolini, Tom Doherty Associates), and Rhythm of War – Book Four of the Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson, Tom Doherty Associates).
Adult nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q2 2021
Adult Nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel, Harriman House), Intuitive Eating (Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D, St. Martin’s Publishing Group), Polysecure (Jessica Fern, Thorntree Press), Humankind (Rutger Bregman, Little, Brown & Co.), Becoming Bulletproof (Evy Poumpouras, Atria Books), Ace (Angela Chen, Beacon Press), Why Fish don’t Exist (Lulu Miller, Simon & Schuster), The Lay Genius Way (Kendra Adachi, The Crown Publishing Group), The Gift (Edith Eva Eger, Scribner), Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake, Random House Publishing Group), Limitless (Jim Kwik, Hay House), and What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Aubrey Gordon, Beacon Press).
Young adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q2 2021
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Throne of Glass eBook Bundle (Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury), The Lives of Saints (Leigh Bardugo, Macmillan Imprint), Spy x Family, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Tatsuya Endo, VIZ Media), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Volume 16 and Volume 18 (Koyoharu Gotuoge, VIZ Media), Teen Titans: Beast Boy (Kami Garcia, DC Comics), Crush (Tracy Wolff, Entangled Publishing), Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rachel Lynn, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas, Feiwel & Friends), How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), and The Selection Series 5-Book Collection (Kiera Cass, HarperTeen).
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. Initial 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