Here’s the list of the Seattle Public Library’s top circulated books for 2008.
1. “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press).
2. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead). .
3. “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations … One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Viking).
4. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia“ by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking).
5. “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life” by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins).
6. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle (Philomel Books).
This list accompanied Mary Ann Gwinn’s piece in the Seattle Times,
Library use jumps in Seattle area; economy likely reason