Happy New Year from the Park City Library!

Take a look at the most popular books that were checked out by Park City readers in the last year.

The most checked out book of the year was Educated!

Educated was the number 2 most checked out book in 2018. This memoir won Good Reads Choice Award for Memoir and Autobiography. Tara Westover was 17 when she first stepped into a classroom. Born into a family of survivalists, she tries a new kind of life. Read her memoir to follow her education.
This heartbreaking coming-of-age novel is a surprising tale of possible murder. Be reminded of the child you once were and that we are subjected to the beauty and violent secrets of nature. Follow Kya, who, with help, is able to survive and even learn to read.
This intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir of the former First Lady is an Oprah Book Club Pick and NAACP Image Award winner. Be invited into Michelle Obama’s mesmerizing reflections of her experiences that have shaped her life from childhood to motherhood to her time in the White House. This memoir is an excellent audiobook as Michelle Obama reads it herself. 
The Great Alone returns to this list moving up from seventh place. This novel won Good Reads Choice Awards for Best Historical Fiction. Follow a desperate family that seeks a new beginning in the isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.
Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force.