Most-borrowed books reveal reading habits at city library
Melancholic author, Michael Harding, topped the charts in Galway’s main public library in the past year.
Staring at Lakes: A memoir of love, melancholy and magical thinking was the most borrowed non-fiction adult book at Galway City’s main library this year.
The book is about depression but also covers topics such as marriage, love and growing old.
The top most borrowed adult fiction from the city library was ‘A Long Long Way’ by Sebastian Barry.
Books by Jonas Jonasson and Jeffrey Archer also make the top-five for adult fiction in Galway; while a memoir by former politician, Mary O’Rourke was also very popular in the non-fiction.
The Diary of Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney crams the top five juvenile books in Galway Library with Diary of a wimpy kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal ranked as the most borrowed children’s book.
The following are the most borrowed books of 2014 at Galway Library:
Most Popular Adult Fiction:
- A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry.
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
- The Thing About December by Donal Ryan.
- Never Go Back by Lee Child
- Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer.
Adult Non Fiction
- Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking by Michael Harding.
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
- Just Mary: A Memoir by Mary O'Rourke.
- The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: a mother, her son and a fifty-year search by Martin Sixsmith.
- The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A.M. Homes.