We love seeing what our community borrows from the library and each year we gather the top 100 most borrowed adult fiction titles to share.
Once again this year we saw a huge interest in Australian literature with titles such as The good people by Hannah Kent, who we were proud to have speak at Camberwell Library during the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, and The natural way of things by acclaimed Stella Prize winning author, Charlotte Wood.
You also love a good crime novel such as The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins and Jane Harper’s The dry.
George Orwell’s Nineteen eighty-four is an enduring classic favourite and titles such as The book thief by Markus Zusak and Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey continue to be popular every year.
The author whose books were most borrowed in 2017 was Ann Cleeves.
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Boroondara Library Service's 100 most borrowed adult fiction books in 2017
- Truly madly guilty* by Liane Moriarty
- The good people* by Hannah Kent
- The girl on the train* by Paula Hawkins
- Night school by Lee Child
- The wrong side of goodbye by Michael Connelly
- The dry* by Jane Harper
- All the light we cannot see: a novel* by Anthony Doerr
- The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
- Burial rites* by Hannah Kent
- Big little lies by Liane Moriarty
- My brilliant friend* by Elena Ferrante
- Go set a watchman* by Harper Lee
- The light between oceans* by M. L. Stedman
- Into the water* by Paula Hawkins
- The course of love* by Alain De Botton
- Our souls at night* by Kent Haruf
- The sellout* by Paul Beatty
- The secret chord by Geraldine Brooks
- Personal by Lee Child
- A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Make me by Lee Child
- The little Paris bookshop by Nina George
- The natural way of things* by Charlotte Wood
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan
- Cometh the hour by Jeffrey Archer
- Commonwealth* by Ann Patchett
- The whistler by John Grisham
- This was a man by Jeffrey Archer
- Rather be the devil by Ian Rankin
- The Rosie project* by Graeme Simsion
- Jasper Jones* by Craig Silvey
- The burning room* by Michael Connelly
- The children act* by Ian McEwan
- The crossing* by Michael Connelly
- The Rosie effect* by Graeme Simsion
- The book thief by Markus Zusak
- The cuckoo's calling by Robert Galbraith
- Rogue lawyer by John Grisham
- City of friends* by Joanna Trollope
- Die trying* by Lee Child
- The narrow road to the deep north* by Richard Flanagan
- The best of Adam Sharp* by Graeme Simsion
- An isolated incident* by Emily Maguire
- After you* by Jojo Moyes
- The black widow by Daniel Silva
- Me before you by Jojo Moyes
- Small great things* by Jodi Picoult
- Silent voices by Ann Cleeves
- When the music's over by Peter Robinson
- Cold earth by Ann Cleeves
- The husband's secret by Liane Moriarty
- All that I am* by Anna Funder
- Black rock white city by A. S. Patric
- Gray Mountain by John Grisham
- Career of evil by Robert Galbraith
- Music and freedom* by Zoee Morrison
- Persuader* by Lee Child
- Gone girl by Gillian Flynn
- What Alice forgot by Liane Moriarty
- The eye of the sheep* by Sofie Laguna
- The hypnotist's love story by Liane Moriarty
- The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
- 61 hours* by Lee Child
- The dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
- The museum of modern love* by Heather Rose
- Burial of ghosts by Ann Cleeves
- Telling tales by Ann Cleeves
- The story of a new name* by Elena Ferrante
- The strays by Emily Bitto
- Theodore Boone: the scandal by John Grisham
- Nineteen eighty-four* by George Orwell
- Even dogs in the wild by Ian Rankin
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- The gods of guilt* by Michael Connelly
- Before the fall by Noah Hawley
- Swing time by Zadie Smith
- Home* by Harlan Coben
- Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
- The one plus one* by Jojo Moyes
- We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- The lake house* by Kate Morton
- My name is Lucy Barton: a novel* by Elizabeth Strout
- Mightier than the sword by Jeffrey Archer
- The guilty by David Baldacci
- Hidden depths by Ann Cleeves
- My Italian bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
- The heart goes last* by Margaret Atwood
- Between a wolf and a dog* by Georgia Blain
- No man's land by David Baldacci
- Signal loss* by Garry Disher
- Force of nature* by Jane Harper
- Conclave by Robert Harris
- Tell the truth, shame the devil* by Melina Marchetta
- The one who got away* by Caroline Overington
- Crimson lake* by Candice Fox
- The silkworm by Robert Galbraith
- The girl before by J. P. Delaney
- The moth catcher by Ann Cleeves
- The chocolate tin by Fiona McIntosh
- The hard way by Lee Child