Most borrowed books of 2022!

We’ve crunched the numbers and here they are – the library’s most borrowed titles in 2022!

Saskatchewan author Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians was in high demand with Regina Public Library readers in 2022, placing among the library’s top ten list for fiction titles. The novel was also the 2022 Canada Reads winner and has been chosen as the 2023 One Book One Province title.

The Delia Owens thriller, Where the Crawdads Sing topped the list of most-borrowed fiction titles for 2022 along with The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah’s Depression-era historical fiction. Colleen Hoover’s romance, It Ends with Us, took third place. Other fiction titles on the list include:

• The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave;
• The Judge’s List by John Grisham;
• Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult and;
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Local, Indigenous, and Canadian titles were also among the most popular non-fiction choices in 2022. Jody Wilson-Raybould’s political memoir, Indian in the Cabinet, topped the list. Crossroads, Kaleb Dahlgren’s book about the Humboldt Broncos tragedy and Call Me Indian by residential school survivor and first Indigenous NHL player, Fred Sasakamoose, also resonated with non-fiction readers. Other non-fiction titles on the list include:

• Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown;
• From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle;
• Atomic Habits by James Clear and;
• Only in Saskatchewan by Naomi Hansen

S.E. Hinton’s enduring coming of age novel, The Outsiders, topped the RPL list of popular young adult titles for 2022, edging out Suzanne Collins’ powerhouse dystopian tales, The Hunger Games and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End. 

With 2022’s release of The Final Gambit, Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s The Inheritance Games series also continues to be a favorite with YA readers (and adults, let's be real). Other YA titles on the list include:

• Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley;
• The Giver by Lois Lowry and;
• One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

Dog Man, the beloved children’s graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey continued to dominate in 2022, occupying all ten spots on RPL’s most borrowed children's titles list!

Until next year, keep reading Regina!