What They're Reading for Fun

This article from School Library Journal entitled "What Are They Reading for Fun" inspired this post.  I recently got a list of my most frequently circulated titles from Nov. 11 to Feb. 11.  I wish they could take the manga titles out of the report, but so far they haven't.  It is in order of greatest to least.  Nothing too surprising or illuminating:

Bleach. 1, Strawberry and the soul reapers

Naruto. Vol. 1, The tests of the ninja

Fruits basket. Volume 1

Skip beat!. 10

Fullmetal alchemist. 1

Tsubasa. 10

Chronicles of the cursed sword. Volume 1

Death note. Vol. 1 Boredom

Vampire game. Volume 1

M*ar : M*archen awakens romance. Vol. 13

Mars. Volume 10

Twilight

Case closed. Volume 1

W Juliet

Breaking dawn

Ceres, celestial legend. Vol. 1, Aya 

Negima!. 6

Love hina. Vol. 14

Faeries' Landing. Volume 11

D.N. Angel. Volume 1

Slightly more interesting are the top authors:
Kubo, Tite

Meyer, Stephenie

Kishimoto, Masashi

Nakamura, Yoshiki

Arakawa, Hiromu

Akamatsu, Ken

Takaya, Natsuki

Ohba, Tsugumi

Judal

Cast, P. C.

Anzai, Nobuyuki

Schreiber, Ellen

Shan, Darren

Soryo, Fuyumi

Beop-Ryong, Yeo

Watase, Yuu

Takaya, Natsuki

Aoyama, Gosho Emura

Hopkins, Ellen

Here is the same thing but for all the high schools in my district:
Meyer, Stephenie

Kubo, Tite

Kishimoto, Masashi

Arakawa, Hiromu

Shan, Darren

Akamatsu, Ken

Takahashi, Rumiko

King, Stephen

Takaya, Natsuki

Watsuki, Nobuhiro

Ohba, Tsugumi

Kishimoto, Masashi

Nakamura, Yoshiki

Hatori, Bisco

Hopkins, Ellen

Clamp

Westerfeld, Scott 

Dessen, Sarah

Soryo, Fuyumi

Pelzer, David J.

If I were going by observation of what people are checking out and asking for a lot, I'd say the P.C. and Kristin Cast series, The Mortal Instruments series, and Sarah Dessen.

By the way, my most circulated title, Bleach vol. 1, circulated 166 times in that 90 day period.  That is one copy checked out 166 times in a 90-day period.  That gives you an idea of how they read manga.