NYPL Releases List of Most Borrowed Books in 2022; Fantasy Novel at Top

By: Jared Evan

The New York Public library released an interesting list of the most popular books in NYC, meanwhile the library is at the center of controversy as Drag Queen Story Time events are drawing fierce protesters and equally angry drag proponents.

The most borrowed book at the New York Public Library — which covers Manhattan, Staten Island and The Bronx — was “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, a 2020 fantasy novel about a woman exploring her life choices through enchanted books.

All of the top ten children’s books were from The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney.

Ben Kessler of The New York Post writes that, “The top checkout for the Brooklyn Public Library was the 2021 novel “The Last Thing He Told Me” By Laura Dave, about a woman investigating her husband’s disappearance.

In Queens, readers couldn’t get enough of the “The Paris Apartment” by Lucy Foley, a fiction thriller published in 2022 about a journalist who goes missing while living in a spooky French apartment.

In other news coming from the NYPL system, drag queen, sexual grooming and protests are all the rage.

Recently, a man protesting drag queen story hour was arresting outside a Midtown branch of The New York Public Library.

A group of protesters spewed “pure hatred and bigotry”, according to the degenerate supporters of this twisted phenomena, outside a Manhattan library that was hosting a Drag Story Hour event Saturday, but failed to stop the controversial drag queen event, which has been called out by concerned parents and protestors as part of a perverse grooming agenda.

The group was protesting against the event, in which drag performers read books to children, at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library in Chelsea. Usually, they read sexually oriented books about gay sex and gender.

Saturday’s story hour was specifically geared to be accessible to children with autism and other disabilities.

The protesters held signs that read “Stop the nonsense. There are only 2 genders,” “Stop grooming kids for sex” and “Let kids be kids” while shouting expletives and giving the middle finger, video posted by

Council Member Erik Bottcherm, an extremist, radical leftist, generalized the well-intentioned but loud-mouthed anti-groomers:

“Today I witnessed pure hatred and bigotry outside Drag Queen Story Hour at a public library in Chelsea,” Bottcher said Saturday. “Inside, I witnessed a loving and peaceful reading of children’s books to kids.”

Opposite the concerned protestors, a band of counter-protesters sang “Thank God for the drag queens” and formed a human chain in front of the library’s entrance to block the anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrators from disrupting the event, according to the footage.

“A group of protesters attempted to disrupt a Drag Story Hour for neurodiverse children. The story hour went on as planned, including readings, coloring activities and a ‘dance party’ at the end,” a spokesperson for the New York Public Library said in a statement.

The Drag Queen events aimed at children have been the center of controversy since they started popping up in 2019.  Drag Queen shows are an old form of adult entertainment, but they have been liked to radical sexual ideologies.

Radical writer, Gayle S. Rubin’s essay “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” is a good starting point to understand the deeper and degenerate agenda behind these seemingly silly Drag Shows.