These are the top circulated books across Canada as tracked by @BookNet_Canada's #LibraryData.
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Recently we shared the top bestselling books in Canada region by region. That got us wondering — which titles circulate the most across Canadian libraries? We’re here to bring you an answer to that question, with the help of our LibraryData service.

Since LibraryData was only launched in 2019, we’ll be sharing the top 15 most circulated titles from the last two years — 2020 and 2021. And based on the distribution of libraries that report to LibraryData, we’ll be grouping the top 15 lists below into Western Canada and Eastern Canada.

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Top circulated titles across Canada

Before we break down the top circulated titles into east and west, it’s worth taking a look at the national top circulating titles list.

According to the number of loans, these are the top 15 most circulated titles across Canadian libraries from 2020 to 2021:

Collage of covers of the 15 most-borrowed print books in 2020 and 2021 in Canadian public libraries

Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny 🍁
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey
A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
Blue Moon by Lee Child
Dog Man: Fetch-22 by Dav Pilkey
Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly

Top circulated titles by region

Almost all of the best circulating titles above appear on the top lists for Eastern and Western Canada:

Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey is on both the Eastern and Western Canada lists.
Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland is on the Western Canada list.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is on both the Eastern and Western Canada lists.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is on both the Eastern and Western Canada lists.
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is on both the Eastern Canada list.
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is on both the Eastern and Western Canada lists.
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny 🍁 is on the Eastern Canada list.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is on both the Eastern and Western Canada lists.
A Time for Mercy by John Grisham is on the Eastern Canada list.
Blue Moon by Lee Child is on the Western Canada list.
Dog Man: Fetch-22 by Dav Pilkey is on the Western Canada list.
Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey is on the Western Canada list.
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman is on the Eastern Canada list.
The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly is on the Eastern Canada list.

The only title that didn’t make it onto an individual list was Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey.

And between the national, Eastern Canada, and Western Canada lists, some titles also overlap with Canada’s regional bestseller lists:

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey is also a regional bestseller on seven lists — AB, BC, MB, NB, ON, SK, and overall
A Promised Land by Barack Obama is also a regional bestseller on six lists — BC, NB, NS, ON, PE, and overall
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is also a regional bestseller on four lists — NS, ON, PE, and YT
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is also a regional bestseller on one list – BC
Guts by Raina Telgemeier is also a regional bestseller on one list – MB