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

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