Most circulated Canadian books: July 2023 to June 2024

Just as we did in our recently released bestselling Canadian books blog post, we’re repeating our post from last year to check on the most popular Canadian books in libraries across Canada over the past year. We took a look at the most circulated books by Canadian contributors in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile & Young Adult subject categories.

The following lists were created based on data from July 3, 2023, to June 30, 2024 using LibraryData, BookNet’s national library collection and circulation analysis tool.

A quick note about the lists: LibraryData uses ISBN clusters to track circulation, holds, etc. in the system. (This differs from SalesData, which reports data at a per-ISBN level.) We do this because of how libraries report their collection data to us — their data is broken out by their Catalog ID or record. Each record can contain multiple ISBNs, often all of the editions of a single work. When you use the library, you put a hold on a copy of Pride and Prejudice, for example, and you usually don't mind which particular edition or ISBN you receive — just that you get the first available copy! Some clusters may contain ISBNs for different but related works. For example, occasionally all of the titles in a series or set may be clustered as a single work.

Overall

1. The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin; illustrated. by Arley Nopra 🍁 , et al.

2. Guinness World Records collection

3. The Maid by Nita Prose 🍁

4. Sonic the Hedgehog series by Ian Flynn 🍁

5. Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune 🍁

6. Robert Munsch 🍁 collection

7. Adventure Time series by Pendleton Ward, Kate Leth 🍁, et al.

8. Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena 🍁

9. The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté MD 🍁 and Daniel Maté

10. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 🍁

Fiction

1. The Maid by Nita Prose 🍁

2. Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune 🍁

3. Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena 🍁

4. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 🍁

5. The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt 🍁

6. The Whispers by Ashley Audrain 🍁

7. The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay 🍁

8. Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall 🍁

9. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose 🍁

10. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good 🍁

Non-Fiction

1. The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté MD 🍁 and Daniel Maté

2. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry 🍁

3. Ducks by Kate Beaton 🍁

4. Outlive by Peter Attia MD 🍁 and Bill Gifford

5. Pageboy by Elliot Page 🍁

6. Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley 🍁

7. Fire Weather by John Vaillant 🍁

8. Doppelganger by Naomi Klein 🍁

9. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell 🍁

10. The Road Years by Rick Mercer 🍁

Juvenile

1. The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin; illustrated. by Arley Nopra 🍁 , et al.

2. Guinness World Records collection

3. Sonic the Hedgehog series by Ian Flynn 🍁

4. Robert Munsch 🍁 collection

5. Adventure Time series by Pendleton Ward, Kate Leth 🍁, et al.

6. Sparks series by Ian Boothby,🍁 illustrated by Nina Matsumoto 🍁

7. Scaredy Squirrel series by Melanie Watt 🍁

8. PAWS series by Nathan Fairbairn, 🍁 illustrated by Michele Assarasakorn 🍁

9. Whatever After series by Sarah Mlynowski 🍁

10. Jon le Bon series by Alex A. 🍁

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