Most popular library book author of the decade is Jacqueline Wilson

15 February 2010


Stand aside Dan Brown and JK Rowling, because Jacqueline Wilson has been named as the most popular library book author of the noughties.


Library lending figures by Public Lending Right, released on Friday 12th, showed that Wilson's books were lent 16 million times by British public libraries in the 10 years – that's nearly 5,000 times a day!


The statistics also revealed that her bestseller The Story of Tracy Beaker was the most borrowed single book of the decade followed by Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which took second, third and fourth places respectively.

The most lent authors of the noughties

Brackets = number of times lent in 10 years

  1. Jacqueline Wilson (16 million) 
  2. Danielle Steel (14 million)
  3. Catherine Cookson (14 million)
  4. Josephine Cox (13 million)
  5. James Patterson (11 million) 
  6. RL Stine (10 million)
  7. Mick Inkpen (10 million)
  8. Janet & Allan Ahlberg (9 million) 
  9. Roald Dahl (8 million) 
  10. Agatha Christie (8 million)

 

 

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