463rd Chart position claimed by Daisy Meadows’ most loaned title
Public Library Lending Chart Osman topples Child to claim library pole
dominance shows. In fact, the lending charts are usually depend- ably made up of brand authors and series titles, with débuts a rare occurrence. Yet 2021’s lockdown-induced
fiction renaissance has clearly had an effect on the LibScan rankings as well as the BookScan ones. Not only did Osman’s début top the chart, but Delia Owens’ first novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, scored fifth and Douglas Stuart’s Booker- winning Shuggie Bain was the 20th most lent title. But series titles still
held sway, particu- larly crime series. Jack Reacher charted both second, courtesy of The Sentinel, and 12th (Blue Moon), with Robert Galbraith’s fourth outing for private detective Cormoran Strike hitting third place, in Troubled Blood. Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus hit fourth place, in A Song for the Dark Times, while
Title
1 The Thursday Murder Club 2 The Sentinel
3 Troubled Blood
4 A Song for the Dark Times 5 Where the Crawdads Sing 6 One August Night 7 The Night Hawks 8 The Deep End
9 Code Name Bananas 10 The Darkest Evening
11 The World’s Worst Parents 12 Blue Moon
13 A Time for Mercy
14 The Law of Innocence 15 V2
16 Hamnet
17 Not Dark Yet 18 The Long Call
19 The Midnight Library 20 Shuggie Bain
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Most Loaned Authors
2021’s lockdown- induced fiction renaissance has clearly had an effect on the LibScan rankings as well as the BookScan ones
ELLY GRIFFITHS AND RICHARD OSMAN LEFT FARED WELL WITH LIBRARYGOERS
Ann Cleeves’ DCI Vera Stanhope charted 10th with The Darkest Evening. Cleeves’ new series opener The Long Call also hit 18th place. Series titles weren’t exclusively
Author Imprint
Richard Osman Viking Lee & Andrew Child Bantam Robert Galbraith Sphere Ian Rankin Orion Delia Owens Corsair Victoria Hislop Headline Elly Griffiths Quercus Jeff Kinney Puffin D Walliams; T Ross
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Ann Cleeves Macmillan D Walliams; T Ross
Lee Child Bantam John Grisham Hodder... Michael Connelly Orion Robert Harris
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Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Press Peter Robinson Hodder... Ann Cleeves Macmillan Matt Haig Canongate
ISBN (+978) 0241425442 1787633612 0751579932 1409176978 1472154668 1472278401 1787477803 0241396643 0008305833 1509889518 0008305796 1787632196 1529342321 1409186106 1786331403 1472223791 1529343076 1509889563 1786892706
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Douglas Stuart Picador 1529019278 Hardback
confined to crime, with Victoria Hislop’s sequel to Noughties million-copy bestseller The Island, historical romance One August Night, charting sixth. Children’s titles followed a simi- lar pattern, with Jeff Kinney’s 14th Wimpy Kid title The Deep End pipping David Walliams and Tony Ross’ standalone title Code Name Bananas to
become the most lent kids’ book of the year to date. However Walliams’ fourth title in The World’s Worst... series, The World’s Worst Parents, scored 11th place. The sheer breadth of the
Children’s library landscape can be seen in the author top 10— Rainbow Magic’s Daisy Meadows is the second most loaned author of the year, yet her highest charting title, Brianna the Bee Fairy, hit 463rd place in the lending chart. The savvily-placed Jude the Librarian Fairy was also in the author’s top five.
Date Range 3rd January to 17th July 2021 Source Nielsen LibScan
01 Julia Donaldson
02 Daisy Meadows
03 James Patterson
04 David Walliams
05 Adam Blade
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