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BPL · Grand Army Plaza · Central / Downtown · est. 1941

Central Library

What is Central Library reading? These rankings come from public BPL catalog availability signals at this branch alone. How we measure popularity →

About this branch

Brooklyn Public Library's flagship at Grand Army Plaza. The current Art Deco building opened in 1941 and houses the system's largest research collection.

Opened
1941
Neighborhood
Grand Army Plaza
Region
Central / Downtown
Tracked here
35

How Central Library compares

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Williamsburgh

14% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 12 shared of 79

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Crown Heights

5% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 5 shared of 81

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Most in-demand here

Availability-derivedAvailability-derived: public hold counts are too inconsistent across comparable titles to fold in. This ranking is based on shelf availability and movement only. Missing holds are never treated as zero.
  1. 1
    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

    Gabrielle Zevin

    0/4 available · all out · +18 vs panel avg
  2. 2
    One hundred years of solitude

    Gabriel García Márquez

    0/3 available · all out · +9 vs panel avg
  3. 3
    My brilliant friend

    Elena Ferrante

    0/4 available · all out · +9 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    0/3 available · all out · +13 vs panel avg
  5. 5
    The mirror

    Nora Roberts

    0/1 available · all out · +49 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    The bandit queens

    Parini Shroff

    0/2 available · all out · +5 vs panel avg
  2. 7
    The Martian

    Andy Weir

    0/2 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  3. 8
    Normal people

    Sally Rooney

    0/2 available · all out · ~ panel avg
  4. 9
    The alchemist

    Paulo Coelho

    0/2 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg
  5. 10
    Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

    Olga Tokarczuk

    0/2 available · all out · +5 vs panel avg

Unusually squeezed here

  • The mirror

    Nora Roberts · +49 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Nightshade

    Michael Connelly · +33 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Inheritance

    Nora Roberts · +28 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

    David Grann · +23 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

    David Grann · +22 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • The city and its uncertain walls

    Haruki Murakami · +20 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • First lie wins

    Ashley Elston · +18 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

    Gabrielle Zevin · +18 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

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