Top Ten Authors

Joint 1st:

• Neal Shusterman
• Robert Muchamore

Joint 2nd:

• Anthony Horowitz
• Alice Oseman

Joint third:

• George Orwell
• J.K. Rowling

Joint 4th

• Koyoharu Gotouge (Demon Slayer Manga)
• Karen McManus (YA thrillers)
• Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club)

Joint 5th

• Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London)
• Sarah J. Maas

Joint 6th

• Robert Harris (historical thrillers)
• Mick Herron (Slough House series)

Joint 7th

• Malorie Blackman
• Neil Gaiman
• Stephen Hawking
• Madeline Miller
• Ruta Sepetys

Joint 8th

• Bonnie Garmus
• Holly Jackson
• Maggie O’Farrell
• Philip Pullman
• Chris Riddell
• Kaiu Shirai

Joint 9th

• Margaret Atwood
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Alison Gwilt

Joint 10th

• Elizabeth Day
• Colleen Hoover
• Liane Moriarty
• Elizabeth Strout
• Virginia Woolf

Most Popular Books

1st:

• Scythe (Book 1) by Neal Shusterman

2nd:

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Joint 3rd

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Circe by Madeline Miller

Joint 4th

• Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Bullet that missed by Richard Osman
• The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros

Joint 5th

• Born a crime by Trevor Noah
• I must betray you by Ruta Sepetys
• Persepolis: A graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi
• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
• Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Most popular series:

• Scythe
• Cherub
• The Promised Neverland (Manga)
• The Thursday Murder Club
• Hunger Games
• Shonen Jump (Manga)
• Demon Slayer
• Heartstopper
• The Sandman
• The Scholomance (A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik)

Here are the most borrowed books from New York Public Libraries 2022