December’s Top Ten Checked Out Books

Get your Kindles and ID cards ready because these books won’t disappoint you!

Nafees Abidi, Staffer


Listen up book worms, the highest trending books for the month of December have been released. These are the top ten most popular books at Smoky Hill for the month of December. It’s time to come back from your break and catch up on reading.

  1. 5th Wave: (Author:Rick Yancey) A desperate teen tries to save her younger brother as increasingly deadly attacks destroy most of the world.
  2. We Were Liars: (Author: E. Lockhart) The novel itself has received critical acclaim and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. It was also listed as an ALA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults for 2015.
  3. Darkest Part of the Forest: (Author: Holly Black) Near the little town of Fairfold, in the darkest part of the forest, lies a glass casket. Inside the casket lies a sleeping faerie prince that none can rouse. He’s the most fascinating thing Hazel and her brother Ben have ever seen.
  4. Shatter Me: (Author: Tahereh Mafi) Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian thriller.
  5. Go Set a Watchman: (Author: Harper Lee) It deals with the scourge of racism in civil rights era America whose trajectory can be traced to America’s relationship with its black community today, and to the Charleston shootings.december book1
  6. Looking for Alaska: (Author: John Green) Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words–and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.”
  7. Court of Thorns and Roses: (Author: Sarah J. Maas) When nineteen-year-old huntress named Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.
  8. The Heir: (Author: Kiera Cass) The Heir is a 2015 young adult novel by Kiera Cass and the fourth book in “The Selection Series”, which consists of five books, the last one coming out May 2016, called “The Crown”. The book was first published on May 5, 2015 through HarperTeen.
  9. Library of Souls: (Author: Ransom Riggs) A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiar dom.
  10. The Calling: (Author: Michael Redhill) Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of Port Dundas and is now making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and feeling blindsided by divorce after nearly four decades of marriage, sixty-one-year-old Hazel has only the constructive criticism of her old goat of a mother and her own sharp tongue to bite her.