Discover the top Auckland Libraries checkouts 2022

We've done the maths, and the results are in for our top checkouts for 2022!

This year's most-borrowed titles show an enduring love and loyalty around favourite authors and series, whether local or international. 

Explore our top checkouts and check them out yourself at your local library!

Most-borrowed fiction 2022

1. Blue moon by Lee Child
2. Grown ups by Marian Keyes
3. The night fire by Michael Connelly
4. Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens
5. Fair warning by Michael Connelly

Most-borrowed fiction by Aotearoa New Zealand authors 2022

1. Before you knew my name by Jacqueline Bublitz
2. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
3. To Italy, with love by Nicky Pellegrino
4. Auē by Becky Manawatu
5. The girl in the mirror by Rose Carlyle

Most-borrowed non-fiction 2022

1. Veg by Jamie Oliver
2. This much is true by Miriam Margolyes
3. Vegful by Nadia Lim
4. Atomic habits by James Clear
5. The mirror book: a memoir by Charlotte Grimshaw

Most-borrowed non-fiction by Aotearoa New Zealand authors 2022

1. Vegful by Nadia Lim
2. The mirror book: a memoir by Charlotte Grimshaw
3. After the Tampa: from Afghanistan to New Zealand by Abbas Nazari
4. Rich enough? A laid-back guide for every Kiwi by Mary Holm
5. Supergood by Chelsea Winter

Most-borrowed kids' fiction 2022

1. Garbage dump disaster by Geronimo Stilton
2. The keepers of the empire: the fourteenth adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy by Geronimo Stilton
3. Thea Stilton and the Roman holiday by Thea Stilton
4. Mysterious eye of the dragon by Geronimo Stilton
5. Big shot: the diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney

Most-borrowed teen fiction 2022

1. They both die at the end by Adam Silvera
2. One of us is lying by Karen McManus
3. The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins
4. We were liars by E. Lockhart
5. A good girl's guide to murder by Holly Jackson.

Most-borrowed fiction eBooks 2022

1. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
2. The girl in his shadow by Audrey Blake
3. The midnight library by Matt Haig
4. Apples never fall by Liane Moriarty
5. The missing sister by Lucinda Riley

Most-borrowed non-fiction eBooks 2022

1. Can't hurt me: Master your mind and defy the odds by David Goggins
2. Reasons to stay alive by Matt Haig
3. Atomic habits by James Clear
4. The brain: The story of you by David Eagleman
5. The Barefoot Investor: The only money guide you'll ever need by Scott Pape

Top 100 2022

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