Most popular library items 2010

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

CDs

Artists

DVDs

Most popular adult hardbacks

1. Other family - Joanna Trollope
2. Happy ever after – Nora Roberts
3. Mortal remains - Kathy Reichs
4. Savour the moment - Nora Roberts
5. Gone – Mo Hayder
6. Zero hour - Andy McNab
7. Spy - Clive Cussler
8. 61 hours - Lee Child
9. Fort - Bernard Cornwell
10. Tigerlily's orchids - Ruth Rendell

Most popular adult authors in hardback

1. Nora Roberts
2. Danielle Steel
3. Clive Cussler
4. Agatha Christie
5. James Patterson
6. Rosie Harris
7. Josephine Cox
8. Katie Flynn
9. J. D. Robb
10. Jodie Picoult

Most popular adult paperbacks

1. True blue - David Baldacci
2. Choice - Susan Lewis
3. Reckless - Andrew Gross
4. I, Alex Cross - James Patterson
5. Deliver us from evil - David Baldacci
6. Scandalous - Tilly Bagshawe
7. 206 bones - Kathy Reichs
8. To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. Dead like you - Peter James
10. Book of tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern

Most popular adult authors in paperback

1. Susan Lewis
2. Reginald Hill
3. James Patterson
4. Ruth Rendell
5. David Baldacci
6. P. G. Wodehouse
7. Lesley Pearse
8. Bernard Cornwell
9. Clive Cussler
10. Henning Mankell

Most popular children's fiction

1. Diary of a wimpy kid: the ugly truth - Jeff Kinney
2. Cookie - Jacqueline Wilson
3. Longest whale song - Jacqueline Wilson
4. Starring Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
5. Cherry crush - Cathy Cassidy
6. Wallace & Gromit in the wrong trousers - Nick Park
7. War horse - Michael Morpurgo
8. Billionaire boy - David Walliams
9. At the hospital - Roderick Hunt
10. Snowy surprise - Awdry, W.

Most popular children's authors

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

Most popular picture books

1. Pants - Giles Andreae
2. Aliens love underpants - Claire Freedman
3. Class two at the zoo - Julia Jarman
4. Night pirates - Peter Harris
5. More pants - Giles Andreae
6. No matter what - Debi Gliori
7. Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson
8. Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs - Ian Whybrow
9. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's dairy - Lynley Dodd
10. Stuck in the mud - Jane Clarke

Most popular CDs

1. Fame Monster – Lady Gaga
2. Sigh No More – Mumford and Sons
3. Defamation of Strickland Banks – Plan B
4. Lungs – Florence and the Machine
5. Sunny side up - Paolo Nutini
6. Now that's what I call music! 75 - Various
7. E.N.D – Black Eyed Peas
8. Element of freedom – Alicia Keys
9. Recovery – Eminem
10. American Anthems - Various

Most popular artists

1. Beatles
2. Snow Patrol
3. Lady Gaga
4. Eminem
5. Ministry of Sound
6. Michael Jackson
7. Paolo Nutini
8. Mumford and Sons
9. Plan B
10. Muse

Most popular DVDs

1. Hurt locker
2. Up
3. Time traveler's wife
4. Reader
5. District 9
6. Gran Torino
7. Hotel for dogs
8. Inglourious basterds
9. Bolt
10. Curious case of Benjamin Button

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