Top 10 ebooks Downloaded in November 2015

By Peter SM RSS Thu, December 10, 2015

Here are the Top 10 ebooks downloaded from the Free Library's OverDrive Digital Library in November 2015.

More than 82,4000 ebooks were checked out and downloaded for the month!

Mystery and Suspense Thriller genre titles from the usual suspects such as Gillian Flynn, Harlan Coben, David Baldacci, and two novels from John Grisham made up the majority of this month's top ten downloads. Downloads for Andy Weir's outerspace survival adventure The Martian are still on the rise after the movie adaptation starring Matt Damon. Paula Hawkins' The Girl On The Train and Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman are also still being read on many devices.

The following list comprises titles from across all genres, downloaded from both our website and mobile site.

1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train (fiction, suspense)
by Paula Hawkins

Continuing with the "unreliable narrator" theme, The Girl on the Train is a classic and suspensefully thrilling page turner. Rachel rides the same commuter train every morning, a boring and predictable experience each ride, until she catches a shocking glimpse of the unspeakable. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?


2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See (historical fiction)
by Anthony Doerr

Set in England and France during World War II, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See is a book about the human spirit and the will to survive under insurmountable odds. The story of a blind French girl and an orphaned German boy whose lives cross paths, children thrust into a war-torn world and forced to make life a death decisions. Emotional and suspenseful, with intricately written detailed passages among the backdrop of history.

3. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman (fiction)
by Harper Lee

Overdrive would have you believe this is book two in the To Kill A Mockingbird Series. Um, NO. What this book is—depending on what you read or believe—is a separate novel set after the events in the Pulitzer Prize–winning To Kill A Mockingbird or excerpts from said novel that were edited out of the published draft.
Set in Maycomb, Alabama, twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—"Scout"—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Civil rights tensions and political turmoil still abound in the South and Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her.


4. The Martian by Andy Weir The Martian (fiction, sci-fi)
by Andy Weir

Recently adapted from book to screen, Andy Weir's story of astronaut Mark Watney is one of survival, determination, and the true meaning of living life to the fullest. After becoming one of the first people to walk on Mars, Mark is suddenly stranded by a freak dust storm. With no way to signal Earth from the mysterious red planet, he puts his engineering and science skills to the test to stay alive. The journal entry style storytelling and dramatic action really immerse the reader in the events of this sci-fi thriller.

5. The Stranger by Harlan Coben The Stranger (fiction, suspense thriller)
by Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben checks in with another shocking thriller full of all the genre's requisite lies and secrets. Adam has a perfect life but doesn't realize how close he is to losing everything until he meets "The Stranger". He soon finds himself tangled in dark deception and conspiracy. 
Who is "The Stranger" exactly? This page turner will have you reading feverishly as you go along with every twist and revelation.

6. Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham Rogue Lawyer (fiction, suspense thriller)
by John Grisham

Another day, another new John Grisham novel set in the apparently dangerous and thrilling world of Law. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical  lawyer: he cruises around in a custum van while drinking small-batch bourbon with a heavily armed driver / bodyguard, defending the defenseless, trying to right injustices wherever he sees them. More fast-paced entertainment from a character we're sure to see more of from the Grisham-verse.

7. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Gone Girl (fiction, mystery suspense thriller)
by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl, the best-selling book now turned blockbuster movie, is the tale of a wife gone missing, a suspected husband, a nosey community, sensational media blitz, and the lies everyone tells to themselves and others to safegurad their own dark secrets.

8. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Outlander (historical fiction, fantasy, romance)
by Diana Gabaldon

This 600+ page time-travel romance has jumped back on many patron's to-read lists ever since the series was optioned for a television series on Starz in 2014. This first installment is full of grand adventure, swashbuckling action, and ribald romance set among the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands in 1945. This ebook includes the full text of the novel plus an excerpt from Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series, an interview with Diana Gabaldon, and an Outlander series reader's guide.

9. Gray Mountain by John Grisham Gray Mountain (fiction, suspense)
by John Grisham

If it's a John Grisham novel, you can expect a suspenseful legal drama to unfold between the pages. Gray Mountain does just that and ties in nicely to current global warming and environmental issues with it's Big Coal and fracking backdrop. After she is downsized from a a huge Wall Street law firm, Samantha Kofer moves from NYC to a sleepy little burg in Virginia to work at a legal aid clinic. Her new job takes Samantha into a dangerous world of big business corruption, as she fights to give a voice to and legally protect the residents of her new home.

10. The Escape by David Baldacci The Escape (fiction, thriller)
by David Baldacci

U.S. Army special agent John Puller is back for his 3rd and most dangerous mission yet in David Baldacci's The Escape. A prisoner has escaped one of the most secure military prisons in the world and Puller is called in to track the fugitive—his own brother. Once on the case, questions quickly arise about the validity of his brother's conviction. But if his brother is innocent, who framed him and why? Pick up this pulse-pounding, action-adventure tale and find out!

You can check out these ebooks, plus browse for audiobooks, music, and videos, across all kinds of different genres, all from your desktop, tablet, or smartphone!

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