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‘Let me tell you
You’ve never seen anything like that library
So many books, so much marble, so quiet..’

So say lyrics from the brilliant musical ‘She Loves Me’, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, music by Jerry Bock, and a book by Joe Masteroff.

Perhaps you, too, have new and old memories of wandering the aisles, leafing through pages in books on topics you’d never thought about before.

What have been the most borrowed English books across a sampling of libraries in 2023?

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Boston Public Library. Top 10 Most Borrowed Books. 2023
i. Lessons in Chemistry. Bonnie Garmus
ii. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Gabrielle Zevin
iii. Spare. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
iv. Book Lovers. Emily Henry
v. I’m Glad My Mom Died. Jennette McCurdy
vi. Happy Place. Emily Henry
vii. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Brianna Wiest
viii. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Taylor Jenkins Reid
ix. Demon Copperhead. Barbara Kingsolver
x. It Stars With Us. Colleen Hoover

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New York Public Library. Top 10 Borrowed Adult Books. 2023
i. Lessons in Chemistry. Bonnie Garmus
ii.Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Gabrielle Zevin
iii. Spare. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
iv. Book Lovers. Emily Henry
v. Verity. Colleen Hoover
vi. Yellowface. R. F. Kuang
vii. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. James McBride
viii. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Taylor Jenkins Reid
ix. It Ends with Us. Colleen Hoover
x. Daisy Jones & the Six. Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Ottawa Public Library. Top 10 Borrowed Adult Books. 2023
i. Spare. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
ii. Lessons in Chemistry. Bonnie Garmus
iii. Demon Copperhead. Barbara Kingsolver
iv. Happy Place. Emily Henry
v. Tom Lake. Ann Patchett
vi. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Gabrielle Zevin
vii. The Covenant of Water. Abraham Verghese
viii. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. Kate Beaton
ix. Meet Me at The Lake. Carley Fortune
x. Everyone Here is Lying. Shari LaPena
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Vancouver Public Library. Top 10 Borrowed Adult Books. 2023
i. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think. Brianna Wiest
ii. Spare. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
iii. Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer
iv. I’m Glad My Mom Died. Jennette McCurdy
v. The Myth of Normal. Gabor Maté
vi. A World of Curiosities. Louise Penny
vii. Lessons in Chemistry. Bonnie Garmus
viii. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Anthony Doerr
ix. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Gabrielle Zevin
x. It Starts With Us. Colleen Hoover

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