The Civica Libraries Index have revealed their 2021 statistics, which show what Australian and New Zealand readers have been borrowing from libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now in its sixth year of operation, the index looks at borrowing data from over 34 million loans, across 104 regional and metropolitan areas in Australia and New Zealand. The stats reveal that Antipodean readers have taken particularly to mystery and thriller novels, and biographies, over the past tumultuous year.
The most borrowed book was Jane Harper’s The Survivors. Another Harper book, The Lost Man, also featured at #5 on the list. Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming hit the #2 spot, followed by Lee Child’s Blue Moon and Dervla McTiernan’s The Good Turn. Australian authors dominated the top 20, with Michael Robotham, Trent Dalton and Ahn Do having multiple entries.
You can full the top 20 list below.
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1 |
The survivors (2020) |
Jane Harper |
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2 |
Becoming (2018) |
Michelle Obama |
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3 |
Blue moon (2019) |
Lee Child |
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4 |
The good turn (2020) |
Dervla McTiernan |
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5 |
The lost man (2018) |
Jane Harper |
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6 |
When she was good (2020) |
Michael Robotham |
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7 |
The scent keeper (2019) |
Erica Bauermeister |
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8 |
Diary of a wimpy kid. Wrecking ball (2019) |
Jeff Kinney |
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9 |
The 117 -storey treehouse (2019) |
Andy Griffiths |
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10 |
Fair warning (2020) |
Michael Connelly |
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11 |
Good girl bad girl (2019) |
Michael Robotham |
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12 |
Vote WeirDo (2020) |
Anh Do |
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13 |
Boy swallows universe (2018) |
Trent Dalton |
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14 |
Kate Grenville |
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15 |
Art time! (2020) |
Anh Do |
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16 |
Nine perfect strangers (2018) |
Liane Moriarty |
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17 |
Too much and never enough: how my family created the world’s most dangerous man (2020) |
Mary Trump |
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18 |
The weekend (2019) |
Charlotte Wood |
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19 |
All our shimmering skies (2020) |
Trent Dalton |
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20 |
Weirdomania! (2019) |
Anh Do |
