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BPL · Sunset Park · South Brooklyn · est. 1905

Sunset Park

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

About this branch

Carnegie library on 4th Avenue, opened in 1905. The branch hosts one of BPL's largest Spanish-language adult collections.

Opened
1905
Neighborhood
Sunset Park
Region
South Brooklyn
Tracked here
63

How Sunset Park compares

Most similar reading taste

Greenpoint

50% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 43 shared of 84

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Most different reading taste

Central Library

12% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 11 shared of 97

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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
    Yesteryear

    Caro Claire Burke

    0/7 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  2. 2
    Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    0/5 available · all out · +6 vs panel avg
  3. 3
    Heart the lover

    Lily King

    0/5 available · all out · −1 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    The stranger

    Albert Camus

    0/3 available · all out · +11 vs panel avg
  5. 5
    Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed

    Lori Gottlieb

    0/3 available · all out · +10 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    Big Swiss

    Jen Beagin

    0/3 available · all out · +8 vs panel avg
  2. 7
    Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir

    0/4 available · all out · +4 vs panel avg
  3. 8
    The correspondent

    Virginia Evans

    0/4 available · all out · −2 vs panel avg
  4. 9
    Strangers : a memoir of marriage

    Belle Burden

    0/4 available · all out · −3 vs panel avg
  5. 10
    Famesick : a memoir

    Lena Dunham

    0/4 available · all out · ~ panel avg

Unusually squeezed here

  • The new menopause : navigating your path through hormonal change with purpose, power, and facts

    Mary Claire Haver · +45 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.

  • Long Island compromise

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner · +27 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.

  • Inside the box : how constraints make us better

    David Epstein · +25 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.

  • Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë · +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.

  • Persuasion

    Jane Austen · +19 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 · +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.

  • Good things : recipes and rituals to share with people you love

    Samin Nosrat · +15 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 stranger

    Albert Camus · +11 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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