It’s been almost two years since Somerville Public Library helped us launch the Awesome Box to public libraries and beyond.

There are now 364 Awesome libraries around the world.

Over 41,000 items have been dropped in an Awesome Box in those libraries. See the items just Awesomed on the Awesome Box page. Now that the year-end lists have come and gone, we’d like to present the top 110 Awesome items* from the past two years.

  1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 131

  2. The fault in our stars 110

  3. Divergent 71

  4. Wonder 64

  5. The Hunger Games 59

  6. Gone girl 55

  7. The invention of wings 50

  8. Naruto 50

  9. Unbroken 49

  10. The book thief 45

  11. Orphan train 45

  12. Eleanor & Park 44

  13. Bone 42

  14. The heroes of Olympus 41

  15. Smile 40

  16. The goldfinch 38

  17. Allegiant 38

  18. Star wars 35

  19. All the light we cannot see 33

  20. The maze runner 33

  21. The giver 32

  22. Ready player one 32

  23. Insurgent 32

  24. Big Nate 32

  25. Where’d you go, Bernadette 30

  26. Life after life 30

  27. Fangirl 30

  28. Maximum Ride 29

  29. Dork diaries 29

  30. The boys in the boat 28

  31. Doctor Who 28

  32. Me before you 28

  33. The signature of all things 28

  34. Babymouse 28

  35. The light between oceans 27

  36. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore 27

  37. The storied life of A.J. Fikry 27

  38. Sisters 27

  39. And the mountains echoed 27

  40. Squish 27

  41. Cinder 27

  42. The night circus 27

  43. The Lego movie 27

  44. The help 26

  45. Wild 26

  46. The walking dead 26

  47. Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone 26

  48. Junie B. Jones loves handsome Warren 26

  49. Drama 25

  50. Percy Jackson & the Olympians 24

  51. Ender’s game 24

  52. The ocean at the end of the lane 24

  53. Animal Ark Labrador on the Lawn 24

  54. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 24

  55. The Rosie project 24

  56. Sycamore row 24

  57. Frozen 24

  58. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 23

  59. I am Malala 23

  60. Amulet 23

  61. Geronimo Stilton 23

  62. Big little lies 23

  63. Every day 22

  64. Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets 22

  65. The husband’s secret 22

  66. Legend 22

  67. The lightning thief 22

  68. Maze runner trilogy 22

  69. Heroes of Olympus 22

  70. Leaving time 22

  71. The invention of Hugo Cabret 21

  72. Out of my mind 21

  73. The sea of monsters 21

  74. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s library 21

  75. The perks of being a wallflower 21

  76. Hyperbole and a half 21

  77. Fruits basket 21

  78. Delicious 21

  79. Wonderstruck 20

  80. Black butler 20

  81. Pete the cat 20

  82. Downton Abbey 20

  83. The one and only Ivan 20

  84. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban 20

  85. The Selection 20

  86. The monuments men 20

  87. Mr. Mercedes 20

  88. Mean streak 20

  89. Room 19

  90. Batman 19

  91. The golem and the jinni 19

  92. The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry 19

  93. Harry Potter and the goblet of fire 19

  94. Matched 19

  95. Game of thrones 19

  96. Paper towns 19

  97. Written in my own heart’s blood 19

  98. The silkworm 19

  99. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks 18

  100. Graceling 18

  101. One summer 18

  102. The great Gatsby 18

  103. The Cuckoo’s Calling 18

  104. The lowland 18

  105. Steelheart 18

  106. The strange case of Origami Yoda 18

  107. Philomena 18

  108. We were liars 18

  109. Edge of eternity 18

  110. The blood of Olympus 18

*Some series items are clumped together. I kind of like it that way.