{"id":29878,"date":"2026-08-03T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29878"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:46:37","slug":"what-is-the-most-popular-book-here-that-surprises-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/08\/03\/what-is-the-most-popular-book-here-that-surprises-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the most popular book here that surprises you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aw080326-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aw080326-2.jpeg\" alt=\"What is the most popular book here that surprises you?\" class=\"wp-image-29875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aw080326-2.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aw080326-2-300x281.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What is the most popular book here that surprises you?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top 10 circulating books in the Pop Collection (to my right, your left) in the last year are: 1. <em>The Raven Boys <\/em>(graphic novel), by Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge, and Abel Ko, 2. <em>The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny<\/em>, by Kiran Desai, 3. <em>Alchemised<\/em> by SenLinYu 4. <em>Death at the White Hart <\/em>by Chris Chibnall, 5. <em>Don&#8217;t Sleep with the Dead<\/em>, by Nghi Vo, 6. <em>Minor Black Figures<\/em> by Brandon Taylor, 7. <em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em>, by Suzanne Collins, 8. <em>The Eights <\/em>(no, really!), by Joanna Miller, 9. <em>The Names<\/em>, by Florence Knapp, 10. <em>Amity<\/em>, by Nathan Harris. None of these individually surprise me, but I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised by the diversity of genres and authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/08\/03\/what-is-the-most-popular-book-here-that-surprises-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the most popular book here that surprises you?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29883,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878\/revisions\/29883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}