Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday – Vancouver Public Library has crunched the numbers to reveal Vancouver’s top 10 Canadian books borrowed ‘of all time’ (technically, as far back as the library’s computer records go, which is 15 years).
Top 10 adult books borrowed:
- The Corporation by Joel Bakan
- Obasan by Joy Kogawa
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen X. Tulchinsky
- The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
- My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Top 10 young adult books borrowed:
- Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
- Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
- Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel
- Acceleration by Graham McNamee
- Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
- The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong
- Alice, I Think by Susan Juby
- The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
- Miss Smithers by Susan Juby
- The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
Top 10 kids books borrowed:
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
- And Then It Happened by Michael Wade and Laura Wade
- The Medusa Plot by Gordon Korman
- An Ocean Apart by Gillian Chan
- The Emperor's Code by Gordon Korman
- Mud City by Deborah Ellis
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- One False Note by Gordon Korman
- The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
- Firewing by Kenneth Oppel
For more great reads and recommendations from the library’s reading experts, visit any of VPL's locations or vpl.ca
