Curious to know what other people have been reading?

Popular titles can provide inspiration for your reading. The lists below provide a wide-range of book suggestions from graphic novels and manga to science and Stephen Hawking.

Have a look at the most borrowed books this term:

Top fiction:

1. Scythe: Book 1 by Neal Shusterman
2. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
3. Rivers of London: Book 1 by Ben Aaronovitch
4. The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
5. Heartstopper: Volume 3 by Alice Oseman
6. Heartstopper: Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
7. Small things like these by Claire Keegan
8. Oh William by Elizabeth Strout
9. Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
10. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
11. The bullet that missed by Richard Osman
12. The Sandman: Book 1 by Neil Gaiman
13. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
15. Nineeteen eighty four by George Orwell

Authors:

Joint 1st

• Alice Oseman
• Neal Shusterman
• Koyoharu Gotouge (Demon Slayer Manga series)

Joint 2^nd

• Ben Aaronovitch
• Anthony Horowitz

3^rd

• Maggie O’Farrell

Joint 4^th

• Chris Bradford (Young Samurai series)
• Neil Gaiman
• Karen M. McManus
• Chris Riddell
• Elizabeth Strout

Joint 5^th

• Jessie Burton
• Robert Harris
• Morris Gleitzman
• Claire Keegan
• Robert Muchamore
• Haruki Murakami
• Richard Osman
• Philip Pullman

Joint 6^th

• Margaret Atwood
• F. Scott Fitzgerald

Most popular series:

• Arc of a Scythe (Scythe, Thunderhead and Toll) by Neal Shusterman
• Demon Slayer (Manga, by Koyoharu Gotouge)
• Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
• Heartstopper (Graphic novel series by Alice Oseman)
• The Promised Neverland (Manga)
• The Thursday Murder Club
• Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
• The Promise – The last airbender (Manga)

Most popular non-fiction:

Joint 1^st:

• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
• Born a crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Twas the nightshift before Christmas by Adam Kay
• Atomic Habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits by James Clear
• Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction by Hugh Bowden
• This is the canon: Decolonize your bookshelf in 50 books by Joan Anim-Addo

The following are the next most popular (equal number of issues).

• Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
• What you need to know about economics by George Buckley
• Seven brief lessons on physics by Carlo Rovelli
• To engineer is human: the role of failure in successful by Henry Petroski
• Shoe dog: a memoir by the creator of Nike by Philip H. Knight
• Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Naturalist: a graphic adaptation by Edward O. Wilson
• A little history of economics by Niall Kishtainy
• Nudge by Richard H Thaler
• Hot air: the inside story of the battle against climate change by Peter Stott
• Other minds: the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life by Peter Godfry-Smith
• Brief answers to big questions by Stephen Hawking
• How not to be wrong: the art of changing your mind by James O’Brien
• Bowl. Sleep. Repeat. Inside the world of England’s  Greatest ever bowler. by Jimmy Anderson