Patience is a Virtue

You know how it goes...you hear about the perfect book, the one you can't wait to read. The only problem is at least 300 people heard about that book too and the wait list is more than 300 people long. You think you'll just hang in there until the wait list goes down, and then read the book. Same scenario a year later and you are waiting for this year's hottest title. Let's take a step back into the way-back machine, and find you that hot book from last year while you are waiting for this year's bestseller. Here are a few of the titles from last year that no longer have huge holds lists.

• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Origin by Dan Brown
• Camino Island by John Grisham
• Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
• Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Fix by David Baldacci
• The Midnight Line by Lee Child
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly   
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
• The Black Book by James Patterson
• The Late Show by Michael Connelly
• The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
• Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
• Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
• Echoes in Death by J. D. Robb