What were the most borrowed titles at City Parramatta Libraries in 2023?

With over 145,000 in our collection including our digital library, it is always exciting to see which titles our library members have enjoyed reading, watching & listening to each year.

Have fun exploring!

This years most borrowed items are….

Top 10 Fiction

1. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
2. Exiles by Jane Harper
3. Simply lies by David Baldacc
4. It ends with us by Colleen Hoover
5. Long shadows by David Baldacci
6. Desert star by Michael Connelly
7. Happy place by Emily Henry
8. Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
9. Its starts with us by Colleen Hoover
10. A heart full of headstones by Ian Rankin

Top 10 Nonfiction

1. Atomic Habits by James Clear
2. The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Mark Manson
3. The psychology of money by Morgan Housel
4. RecipeTin eats dinner by Nagi Maehashi
5. Why has nobody told me this before? by Dr Julie Smith
6. Stolen focus by Johann Hari
7. Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
8. Rich dad poor dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
9. How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
10. Retirement made simple by Noel Whittaker

Top 10 Young Adult Fiction

1. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
2. The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins
3. Good girl’s guide to murder by Holly Jackson
4. One of us is lying by Karen McManus
5. The maze runner by James Dashner
6. Catching fire by Suzanne Collins
7. The cruel prince by Holly Black
8. Six of crows by Leigh Bardugo
9. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
10. The giver by Lois Lowry

Top 10 Junior Fiction

1. The getaway [Diary of a Wimpy Kid] by Jeff Kinney
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
3. Camping time [Hot Dog] by Anh Do
4. Wrecking ball [Diary of a Wimpy Kid] by Jeff Kinney
5. Double down [Diary of a Wimpy Kid] by Jeff Kinney
6. Game time! [Hot Dog] by Anh Do
7. Totally weird! by Anh Do
8. Rodrick rules [Diary of a Wimpy Kid] by Jeff Kinney
9. Crazy weird! by Anh Do
10. Hopping weird! by Anh Do

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Top 10 Adult eAudiobooks

1. Atomic habits by James Clear
2. Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
3. Spare by The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry
4. Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
5. I’m glad my mom died by Jeannette McCurdy
6. Promised land by Barak Obama
7. Apples never fall by Liane Moriarty
8. The bullet that missed by Richard Osman
9. The Thursday murder club by Richard Osman
10. Homecoming by Kate Morton

Top 10 Adult eBooks

1. Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
2. Spare by The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry
3. Dirt town by Hayley Scrivenor
4. Murders at fleat house by Lucinda Riley
5. Where are you beautiful world by Sally Rooney
6. The Dictionary of lost words by Pip Williams
7. Boy swallows universe by Trent Dalton
8. Dream town by David Baldacci
9. We were dreamers by Simu Liu
10. Before you knew my name by Jacquelin Bublitz

Children’s eAudiobooks

1. Harry Potter series by j. K. Rowling
2. Splashy weird! by Anh Do
3. Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney
4. 130-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
5. Funny kid catastrophe by Matt Stanton
6. BFG by Road Dahl
7. Percy Jackson and the lightening thief by Rick Riordan
8. Spooky weird! by Anh Do
9. 143-Storey treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
10. Hive Queen by Tui T. Sutherland

Children’s eBooks

1. Extra weird! by Anh Do
2. 117-Storey treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
3. Billy and the minpins by Roald Dahl
4. 143-Storey treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
5. The grandest bookshop in the world by Amelia Mellor
6. Totally weird! by Anh Do
7. Harry Potter and the half-blood prince by J. K. Rowling
8. Crazy weird! by Anh Do
9. Adventures of super diaper baby by Dav Pilkey
10. Great escape by Anh Do 

Top 10 DVDs

1. Jurassic World
2. Top Gun
3. Where the crawdads sing
4. Elvis
5. Black Panther, Wakanda forever
6. Black Adam
7. Ticket to paradise
8. Ant-man and the Wasp Quantumania
9. Thor. Love and thunder
10. A man called Otto

Top 10 Children’s DVDs

1. Peppa Pig
2. Baby race and other stories [Bluey]
3. Muffin cone and other stories [Bluey]
4. Sticky gecko and other stories [Bluey]
5. Paw Patrol the movie
6. Frozen II
7. Dance mode and other stories [Bluey]
8. Frozen
9. Wiggles
10. Snow patrol [Paw Patrol]