MOST BORROWED TITLES JULY 2002 – JUNE 2003

Contents Most Borrowed Fiction Titles (Adult) Most Borrowed Children’s Fiction Titles Most Borrowed Adult Non-Fiction Titles Most Borrowed Children’s Non-Fiction Titles

Most Borrowed Fiction Titles (Adult)

Author Title Publisher Year

1. John Grisham The Summons Century 2002 2. Josephine Cox Jinne Headline 2002 3. Josephine Cox The Woman who Left Headline 2001 4. Josephine Cox Looking Back Headline 2000 5. Josephine Cox Let it Shine Headline 2001 6. Joanna Trollope Girl from the South Bloomsbury 2002 7. Danielle Steel The Bantam 2001 8. Maeve Binchy Quentin’s Orion 2002 9. The Silent Lady Bantam 2001 10. Danielle Steel The Cottage Bantam 2002 11. Maeve Binchy Scarlet Feather Orion 2000 12. Patricia Cornwell Isle of Dogs Little, Brown 2001 13. Jack Higgins Runner HarperCollins 2002 14. with Andrew Gross 2nd Chance Headline 2002 15. Danielle Steel Leap of Faith Bantam 2001 16. John Grisham A Painted House Century 2001 17. Danielle Steel Sunset in St Tropez Bantam 2002 18. Josephine Cox Rainbow Days Headline 2000 19. Emma Blair Moonlit Eyes Little, Brown 2002 20. Josephine Cox Bad Boy Jack Headline 2002

Most Borrowed Children’s Fiction Titles

Author Title Publisher Year

1. J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Bloomsbury 1999 2. J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Bloomsbury 2000 3. (illus ) The Story of Yearling 1992 4. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt ) Young Corgi 2000 5. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt ) Doubleday 2001 6. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Corgi, Yearling 2000 7. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Jane Cope) Glubbslyme Yearling 1995 8. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Secrets Doubleday 2002 9. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Yearling 1997 10. J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Bloomsbury 2001 11. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Yearling 1993 12. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Corgi Yearling 2001 13. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Mum-minder Yearling 1994 14. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) The Dare Game Corgi Yearling 2001 15. J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Bloomsbury 1997 16. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Doubleday 2001 17. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Bed and Breakfast Star Yearling 1995 18. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Yearling 1998 19. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt) Cliffhanger Yearling 1995 20. Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt Transworld, and Sue Heap Corgi 1996

Most Borrowed Adult Non-Fiction Titles

Author Title Publisher Year

1. Dave Pelzer The Lost Boy Orion 2000 2. Pamela Stephenson Billy HarperCollins 2001 3. Bill Brys on Down Under Doubleday 2000 4. Dave Pelzer A Man Named Dave Orion 2000 5. Dave Pelzer A Child Called It Orion 2000 6. Anne Robinson Memoirs of an Unfit Mother Little, Brown 2001 7. Dave Pelzer A Child Called It Orion 2001 8. Antony Beevor Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 Viking 2002 9. Driving Standards Agency The Official Theory Test for Car Drivers Stationery Office 2001 10. Alan Titchmarsh Trowel and Error Hodder & Stoughton 2002 11. Alan Titchmarsh How to be a Gardner: Book 1 (photos Jonathan Buckley) Back to Basics BBC 2002 12. Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country Doubleday 1998 13. Frank McCourt ’Tis Flamingo 1999 14. Gervase Phinn Head Over Heels in the Dales Michael Joseph 2002 15. Bill Bryson (illus David Cook) A Walk in the Woods Doubleday 1997 16. William Woodruff The Road to Nab End: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood Abacus 2002 17. Dave Pelzer The Lost Boy Orion 2001 18. Chris Stewart Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia Sort Of Books 1999 19. Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood Flamingo 1997 20. Victoria Beckham Learning to Fly Michael Joseph 2001

Most Borrowed Children’s Non-Fiction Titles

Author Title Publisher Year

1. Terry Deary The Woeful Second World War Hippo 1999 (illus Martin Brown) 2. Terry Deary, Neil Tonge The Terrible Tudors Hippo 1993 (illus Martin Brown) 3. Eric Hill Spot Can Count Puffin 2000 4. Terry Deary The Smashing Saxons Hippo 2000 (illus Martin Brown) 5. Terry Deary The Vile Victorians Scholastic 1994 (illus Martin Brown) 6. Terry Deary The Rotten Romans Hippo 1994 (illus Martin Brown) 7. Terry Deary Dark Knights and Dingy Castles Scholastic 1997 (illus Philip Reeve) 8. Mick Inkpen Kipper’s A to Z Hodder Children’s 2000 9. Terry Deary The Frightful First World War Hippo 1998 (illus Martin Brown) 10. Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite The Awesome Egyptians Scholastic 1993 (illus Martin Brown) 11. Terry Deary The Blitzed Brits Hippo 1994 (illus Kate Sheppard) 12. Terry Deary The Groovy Greeks Hippo 1996 (illus Martin Brown) 13. Terry Deary Even More Terrible Tudors Hippo 1998 (illus Martin Brown) 14. Terry Deary The Measly Middle Ages Hippo 1996 (illus Martin Brown) 15. George Hart Ancient Egypt Dorling Kindersley 1990 16. Lucy Cousins Count with Maisy Walker 1997 17. Mick Inkpen Kipper’s Book of Opposites Hodder Children’s 1997 18. Simon Adams World War II Dorling Kindersley 2000 (photos Andy Crawford) 19. Terry Deary The Cut-Throat Celts Hippo 1997 (illus Martin Brown) 20. Terry Deary The Savage Stone Age Hippo 1999 (illus Martin Brown)

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