Borrowed in Brooklyn

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Pick any two of the 12 tracked BPL branches to see what they share, what each over-indexes on, and how their adult-fiction tastes diverge.

Or click any cell in the matrix below.

Williamsburgh + Coney Island35%normalized overlapNormalized overlap: first ranks each branch's fresh tracked titles by demand pressure and converts those ranks to within-branch percentiles. It then divides the sum of the lower percentiles by the sum of the higher percentiles across titles tracked at either branch. A missing title counts as zero observed signal. This compares relative demand without letting one branch's raw score range dominate.36 shared · 32 only Williamsburgh · 24 only Coney Island
Color scaleVery different (0–20%)Some overlap (21–40%)Fairly similar (41–60%)Very similar (61%+)
Brooklyn Heights
Central Library
Bushwick
Greenpoint
Williamsburgh
Bedford
Crown Heights
Flatbush
Bay Ridge
Coney Island
Kings Highway
Sunset Park
Central / Downtown
Brooklyn Heights—106453935394641404541
Central Library10—299476811109
North Brooklyn
Bushwick62—545747884
Greenpoint4595—3933414345354243
Williamsburgh399439—27403937354237
Central Brooklyn
Bedford35453327—303731293531
Crown Heights3977414030—3846424438
Flatbush466443393738—43384136
South Brooklyn
Bay Ridge41874537314643—414135
Coney Island40118353529423841—3940
Kings Highway4510842423544414139—41
Sunset Park41944337313836354041—
How this works

Each cell is a normalized overlap. We rank every fresh title by demand pressure within its own branch, convert those ranks to percentiles, then compare the lower and higher percentiles across titles tracked at either branch. This puts every branch on the same relative scale. A title missing from one branch counts as zero observed signal. Diagonals are self-matches (—). Branches are grouped by region (North / Central / South Brooklyn) for readability. The matrix is symmetric, so both directions show the same value. If a book isn’t in one branch’s tracked pool, that side counts as no observed signal — not proof of zero real-world demand.

Shared titles

  • YesteryearCaro Claire Burke

    Williamsburgh 70 ~ panel avg · Coney Island 70 ~ panel avg

  • The correspondentVirginia Evans

    Williamsburgh 65 −3 vs panel avg · Coney Island 68 ~ panel avg

  • WhistlerAnn Patchett

    Williamsburgh 65 +1 vs panel avg · Coney Island 65 +1 vs panel avg

  • Strangers : a memoir of marriageBelle Burden

    Williamsburgh 65 −3 vs panel avg · Coney Island 65 −3 vs panel avg

  • Heart the loverLily King

    Williamsburgh 65 −2 vs panel avg · Coney Island 65 −2 vs panel avg

  • Famesick : a memoirLena Dunham

    Williamsburgh 62 −1 vs panel avg · Coney Island 62 −1 vs panel avg

  • Martyr!Kaveh Akbar

    Williamsburgh 68 +11 vs panel avg · Coney Island 57 ~ panel avg

  • Broken countryClare Leslie Hall

    Williamsburgh 62 +13 vs panel avg · Coney Island 57 +8 vs panel avg

  • A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreckSophie Elmhirst

    Williamsburgh 57 +2 vs panel avg · Coney Island 57 +2 vs panel avg

  • YellowfaceR F Kuang

    Williamsburgh 57 −2 vs panel avg · Coney Island 57 −2 vs panel avg

More popular at Williamsburgh

TitleWilliamsburghConey Island
Demand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.AvailableDemand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.Available
Crying in H Mart : a memoirMichelle Zauner
69
+26 vs panel avg
0/4
0
−43 vs panel avg
1/1
Hidden potential : the science of achieving greater thingsAdam Grant
59
+29 vs panel avg
0/1
0
−30 vs panel avg
1/1
The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murderDavid Grann
51
+18 vs panel avg
0/1
0
−33 vs panel avg
1/1
Inside the box : how constraints make us betterDavid Epstein
51
+20 vs panel avg
0/1
0
−31 vs panel avg
1/1
Atmosphere : a love storyTaylor Jenkins Reid
62
+13 vs panel avg
0/3
21
−28 vs panel avg
2/3

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More popular at Coney Island

TitleWilliamsburghConey Island
Demand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.AvailableDemand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.Available
The intruderFreida McFadden
29
−15 vs panel avg
1/2
51
+7 vs panel avg
0/1
Fourth wingRebecca Yarros
21
−21 vs panel avg
2/3
41
−1 vs panel avg
1/3
A court of thorns and rosesSarah J Maas
51
−1 vs panel avg
0/1
61
+9 vs panel avg
0/2
Wild dark shoreCharlotte McConaghy
51
−4 vs panel avg
0/1
57
+2 vs panel avg
0/2
The correspondentVirginia Evans
65
−3 vs panel avg
0/4
68
~ panel avg
0/5

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Distinctive to Williamsburgh

TitleWilliamsburghConey Island
Demand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.AvailableDemand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.Available
The sistersJonas Hassen Khemiri
62
+6 vs panel avg
0/3
0
~ panel avg
0/0
Big SwissJen Beagin
62
+10 vs panel avg
0/3
0
~ panel avg
0/0
One hundred years of solitudeGabriel García Márquez
62
+11 vs panel avg
0/3
0
~ panel avg
0/0
Babel, or, the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolutionR F Kuang
62
+9 vs panel avg
0/3
0
~ panel avg
0/0
Justine cooks : recipes (mostly plants) for finding your way in the kitchenJustine Doiron
61
+33 vs panel avg
0/2
0
~ panel avg
0/0

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Distinctive to Coney Island

TitleWilliamsburghConey Island
Demand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.AvailableDemand pressureBranch demand pressure: bounded 0–100 index combining scarcity (up to 80 pts when 0/N copies are on shelf) and recent movement (capped at 20). When public holds coverage is high enough across comparable books, scarcity is rebalanced to 0–65 and a 0–20 holds component is added.Available
The midnight libraryMatt Haig
0
~ panel avg
0/0
62
+5 vs panel avg
0/3
Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad onesJames Clear
0
~ panel avg
0/0
51
−4 vs panel avg
0/1
Sense and sensibilityJane Austen
0
~ panel avg
0/0
51
−3 vs panel avg
0/1
None of this is trueLisa Jewell
0
~ panel avg
0/0
51
−2 vs panel avg
0/1
Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBIDavid Grann
0
~ panel avg
0/0
51
+23 vs panel avg
0/1

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