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 America’s public libraries. The nine regional lists, one for each of the eight regions represented by independent booksellers’ associations plus Hawaii, feature 25 titles in each category and illustrate both shared and unique interests of readers from across the United States.
Panorama Picks are unique from other lists in that they are derived from anonymized hold list data for eBooks from public libraries in the USA. 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 and is a valued reference for collection development librarians. Given the lack of industry data and non-existent reporting on purchases of eBooks by public libraries, Panorama Picks offers insights to authors, agents and other publishing professionals looking for trends in readers’ preferences and the significant contribution of public libraries to overall sales of many individual titles.
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 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 July 2022 through September 2022 and feature books published from October 2020 through September 2021.
Adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the U.S.-Q3 2022.
Adult Fiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include The Cheat Sheet (Sarah Adams, Random House Publishing), The Trees (Percival Everett, Graywolf Press), Bullet Train (Kotaro Isaka, Abrams), A Psalm For The Wild-Built (Becky Chambers, Tor Publishing Group), Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press), The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit), The Atlas Six (Olivie Blake, Tor Publishing Group), The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams, Random House Publishing Group), and The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot (Maryanne Cronin, HarperCollins). Returning to Panorama Picks is Neon Gods (Katee Robert, Sourcebooks).
Adult nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand across the U.S.-Q3 2022.
Adult Nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Cuba (Ada Ferrer, Scribner), No Bad Parts (Richard C. Schwartz, Sounds True) Mother Hunger (Kelly McDaniel, Hay House), Sidecountry (John Branch, W.W. Norton & Company), I Take My Coffee Black (Tyler Merritt, Worthy), and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks, Knopf Doubleday). Returning to Panorama Picks for the second straight time are The Comfort Crisis (Michael Easter, Harmony/Rodale), Come as You Are (Emily Nagoski, Simon & Schuster), and Polysecure (Jessica Fern, Thorntree Press).
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand across the U.S.-Q3 2022.
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Once Upon a Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber, Flatiron Books), Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer, Bloomsbury Publishing), Blade of Secrets (Tricia Levenseller, Feiwel and Friends), The Prison Healer (Lynette Noni, HarperCollins), Six Crimson Cranes (Elizabeth Lim, Random House), and Realm Breaker (Victoria Aveyard, HarperCollins). Returning to Panorama Picks are several volumes of Spy x Family (Tatsuya Endo, Viz Media), The Girl from the Sea (Molly Knox, Scholastic), and Covet (Tracy Wolff, Entangled Publishing).
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 contact Daniel Albohn.
Daniel R. Albohn
Project Lead, Panorama Project
projectlead@panoramaproject.org