Titles patrons asked for that no source could find. Logged from the desk, counted once per title and author. Example entries: the ten invented titles printed in the Chicago Sun-Times insert of 18 May 2025 (as reported by CBS News). Counts are this demo’s own.
| Title | Author given | Asked | What they liked | Shown instead | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tidewater Dreamsexample | Isabel Allende | 20× | Like Water for Chocolate (film), Buena Vista Social Club (band) | On earth we're briefly gorgeous: a novel, A little life: a novel, On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century | 2026-10-20 |
| The Last Algorithmexample | Andy Weir | 4× | The Martian (film) | The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity, Sapiens: a graphic history. Volume one, The birth of humankind, Mine! | 2026-10-20 |
| Boiling Pointexample | Rebecca Makkai | 1× | The Bear (tv), Anthony Bourdain (author) | — | 2026-10-19 |
| Hurricane Seasonexample | Brit Bennett | 1× | Moonlight (film), Solange (artist) | — | 2026-10-19 |
| Migrationsexample | Maggie O'Farrell | 1× | Hamnet (book), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (film) | — | 2026-10-19 |
| Nightshade Marketexample | Min Jin Lee | 1× | — | — | 2026-10-19 |
| Salt and Honeyexample | Delia Owens | 1× | Where the Crawdads Sing (film), Taylor Swift (artist) | — | 2026-10-19 |
| The Collector's Pieceexample | Taylor Jenkins Reid | 1× | Almost Famous (film), Fleetwood Mac (band) | — | 2026-10-19 |
| The Longest Dayexample | Rumaan Alam | 1× | Leave the World Behind (film), The National (band) | — | 2026-10-19 |
| The Rainmakersexample | Percival Everett | 1× | No Country for Old Men (film), Johnny Cash (artist) | — | 2026-10-19 |