Most Popular in 2023
Library staff have compiled reports to discover 2023's popular items at Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi. The books are listed in order of how many times they were borrowed this year.
- No Plan B Lee Child and Andrew Child
- I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy
- The Murders at Fleat House Lucinda Riley
- Better Off Dead Lee Child and Andrew Child
- How Maui Slowed the Sun Peter Gossage [New Zealand]
- Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker
- Apples Never Fall Liane Moriarty
- The Bullet That Missed Richard Osman
- It starts with us Colleen Hoover
- Exiles Jane Harper
- Spare Prince Harry
- Ugly Love Colleen Hoover
- The 6:20 man David Baldacci
- Did I Ever Tell You This? Sam Neill [New Zealand]
- The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman
- The Man Who Died Twice Richard Osman
- The Boys from Biloxi John Grisham
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
- Desert Star Michael Connelly
- Sparring Partners John Grisham
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Best of 2023 booklists
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Hayley's best fiction covers of 2023
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Best non-fiction reads of 2023
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Ma1co1m's Best Comics of 2023
Always tough to pick favorites, but here are a selection of my top reads for 2023.
ma1co1m's Favourite Reads of 2023
Too hard to pick the absolute best (it's that whole apples and oranges thing right?) , but here's a selection my favourite reads of 2023.
Hayley's best fiction covers of 2023
Disclaimer: I'm not a designer, I just like pretty things.
Best non-fiction reads of 2023
Favourite non-fiction reads during twenty-twenty-three. Mostly memoirs about parenthood and/or life. You'll laugh, you'll cry!
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