What is the most popular book here that surprises you?

The top 10 circulating books in the Pop Collection (to my right, your left) in the last year are: 1. The Raven Boys (graphic novel), by Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge, and Abel Ko, 2. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai, 3. Alchemised by SenLinYu 4. Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall, 5. Don’t Sleep with the Dead, by Nghi Vo, 6. Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor, 7. Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins, 8. The Eights (no, really!), by Joanna Miller, 9. The Names, by Florence Knapp, 10. Amity, by Nathan Harris. None of these individually surprise me, but I’m pleasantly surprised by the diversity of genres and authors.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.