Most popular library items 2009

The most popular items borrowed from Plymouth Libraries this year. See what library staff picked in their review of the year.

Adult fiction hardbacks

Adult authors in hardback

Adult fiction paperbacks

Adult authors in paperback

Children's fiction

Children's authors

Picture books

Picture book authors

CDs

Artists

DVDs

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Most popular adult hardbacks

1. Longest winter by Mary Jane Staples
2. Home of our own by Gwen Kirkwood
3. Bed of roses by Nora Roberts
4. Pirate latitudes by Michael Crichton
5. Invasion by Julian Stockwin
6. Valentine moon by Sally Worboyes
7. Exit wound by Andy McNab
8. Lustrum by Robert Harris
9. Nine dragons by Michael Connelly
10. 206 bones by Kathy Reichs

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Most popular adult authors in hardback

1. Danielle Steel
2. Nora Roberts
3. Mary Jane Staples
4. Clive Cussler
5. Agatha Christie
6. Rosie Harris
7. Freda Lightfoot
8. Josephine Cox
9. Jack Higgins
10. Katie Flynn

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Most popular adult paperbacks

1. Flight of swallows by Audrey Howard
2. Handle with care by Jodie Picoult
3. Quality of love by Rosie Harris
4. Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
5. Lost labyrinth by Will Adams
6. Upside down, inside out by Monica McInerney
7. Run for your life by James Patterson
8. Thanks for the memories by Cecilia Ahern
9. Associate by John Grisham
10. Anyone who had a heart by Mia Dolan

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Most popular adult authors in paperback

1. Reginald Hill
2. Jodi Picoult
3. P.G. Wodehouse
4. Jean Plaidy
5. Ruth Rendell
6. Susan Lewis
7. Clive Cussler
8. Bernard Cornwell
9. Stephen King
10. Rosie Harris

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Most popular children's fiction

1. Cookie by Jacqueline Wilson
2. Starring Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
3. Christmas Wish by Sue Bentley
4. Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
5. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
6. Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
7. Dare Game by Jacqeline Wilson
8. Bed and Breakfast Star by Jacqueline Wilson
9. Suitcase by Jacqueline Wilson
10. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson

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Most popular children's authors

1. Jacqueline Wilson
2. Roderick Hunt
3. Sue Bentley
4. Roald Dahl
5. Sue Graves
6. Russell Punter
7. Jeremy Strong
8. Enid Blyton
9. Michael Morpurgo
10. Linda Chapman

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Most popular picture books

1. I really, really need actual ice skates by Lauren Child
2. More pants by Giles Andreae
3. Pants by Giles Andreae
4. Where's Spot by Eric Hill
5. Class 2 at the zoo by Julia Jarman
6. Aliens love underpants by Claire Freedman
7. No matter what by Debi Gliori
8. Night pirates by Peter Harris
9. Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
10. Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs by Ian Whybrow

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Most popular picture book authors

1. Mick Inkpen
2. Ian Whybrow
3. Lauren Child
4. Fiona Watt
5. David McKee
6. Eric Hill
7. Julia Donaldson
8. Tony Ross
9. Giles Andreae
10. Jeanne Willis

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Most popular CDs

1. Sunny side up - Paolo Nutini
2. Lungs - Florence and the Machine
3. It's not me it's you - Lily Allen
4. Fame - Lady Ga Ga
5. Only by the night - Kings of Leon
6. Wild young hearts - Noisettes
7. Seldom seen kid - Elbow
8. West ryder pauper lunatic asylum - Kasabian
9. Now! That's what I call music 72
10. I am Sasha Fierce - Beyonce

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Most popular artists

1. Michael Jackson
2. Paolo Nutini
3. Beatles
4. Kings of Leon
5. Florence and the Machine
6. Lily Allen
7. Bob Dylan
8. Leonard Cohen
9. Elbow
10. U2

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Most popular DVDs

1. Slumdog millionaire
2. Curious case of Benjamin Button
3. WALL-E
4. Bolt
5. Valkyrie
6. Australia
7. Gran Torino
8. Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull
9. Kung fu panda
10. Quantum of solace

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