Today, the Panorama Project 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 October 2021 through December 2021 and feature books published from October 2020 through June 2021.
Adult fiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q4 2021
Adult Fiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Zorrie (Laird Hunt, Bloomsbury Publishing), Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1 (Frank Herbert, Abrams), The Promise (Damon Galgut, Europe Editions), Hell of a Book (Jason Mott, Penguin Publishing Group), The Guncle (Stephen Rowley, Penguin Publishing Group), No One Is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood, Penguin Publishing Group), Lucky (Marissa Stapley, Simon & Schuster), The Crown of Guilded Bones (Jennifer L. Armentrout, Evil Eye Concepts), The Plot (Jean Hanff Korelitz, Celadon Books), and Great Circle (Maggie Shipstead, Knopf Doubleday Publishing).
Adult nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q4 2021
Adult Nonfiction titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include All That She Carried (Tiya Miles, Random House Publishing Group), Come as You Are (Emily Nagoski, Simon & Schuster), Tastes Like War (Grace M. Cho, The Feminist Press at CUNY), A Thousand Brains (Jeff Hawkins, Basic Books), How to Change (Katy Milkman, Penguin Publishing Group),
Polysecure (Jessica Fern, Thorntree Press), How to Not Die Alone (Logan Ury, Simon & Schuster), The Copenhagen Trilogy (Tove Ditlevsen, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old (Steven Petrow, Citadel Press), and Set Boundaries, Find Peace (Nedra Glover Tawwab, Penguin Publishing Group).
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand across the USA - Q3 2021
Young Adult titles with notable unmet demand in multiple regions include Throne of Glass eBook Bundle (Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing), Demon Slayer, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Volumes 18 and 22 (Koyoharu Gotouge, VIZ Media), Heartstopper, Volume 2 (Alice Oseman, Scholastic Inc.), The Prison Healer (Lynette Noni, HarperCollins), Twisted Ones (Scott Cawthon, Scholastic Inc.), Covet (Tracy Wolff, Entangled Publishing), Spy x Family, Volume 3 (Tatsuya Endo, VIZ Media), Some Girls Do (Jennifer Dugan, Penguin Young Readers Group), Better Than the Movies (Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), and The Nature of Witches (Rachel Griffin, Sourcebooks).
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 2021, 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 garnered considerable 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
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