The lists you’ve been waiting for. Here are Wellington City Libraries’ top 10 most borrowed titles for 2023.

Top 10 adult fiction

• Birnam Wood / Eleanor Catton
• Lessons in chemistry / Bonnie Garmus
• The bullet that missed / Richard Osman
• The marriage portrait / Maggie O’Farrell
• Lucy by the sea : a novel / Elizabeth Strout
• Shrines of gaiety / Kate Atkinson
• The axeman’s carnival / Catherine Chidgey
• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Gabrielle Zevin
• The seven moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka
• Mad honey : a novel / Jodi Picoult

 

Top 10 children fiction

• Double down / Jeff Kinney
• The getaway / Jeff Kinney
• Rodrick rules / Jeff Kinney
• The 13-storey treehouse / Andy Griffiths
• The third wheel / Jeff Kinney
• Hard luck / Jeff Kinney
• Diper överlöde / Jeff Kinney
• Big shot / Jeff Kinney
• The last straw / Jeff Kinney
• The ugly truth / Jeff Kinney

 

Top 10 non-fiction

• Spare / Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
• I’m glad my mom died / Jennette McCurdy
• The bookseller at the end of the world / Ruth Shaw
• Atomic habits / James Clear
• Did I ever tell you this? : a memoir / Sam Neill
• Straight up / Ruby Tui
• Just one thing : how simple changes can transform your life / Michael Mosley
• The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times / Michelle Obama
• The myth of normal : trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture / Gabor Maté
• There’s a cure for this : a memoir / Emma Espinar