"The Women," "Great Big Beautiful Life" and "The Let Them Theory" among Long Island's most popular library book checkouts of 2025

Long Islanders can’t get enough of Kristin Hannah.

For the second consecutive year , Hannah's historical fiction novel "The Women" tops the list of total checkouts in the Nassau Library System, with the book taken 14,665 times in 2025.

The novel , which centers on the experiences of nurses serving in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during and after the Vietnam War, had a whopping 19,650 checkouts in 2024.

Lisa Zuena, communications and marketing specialist for the Nassau system, said she has never seen a book hit No. 1 for checkouts two years in a row.

"I was shocked to see that," Zuena said.

The book was also popular with patrons of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System, where print, e-book and audiobook versions have been checked out a total of 11,675 times this year. The most check