James Patterson is UK’s Most Borrowed Author With Over 1.5 Million Library Loans
US writer James Patterson has retained his position as the UK’s most borrowed author for a second year, according to PLR UK, whose figures for 2008 have just been published.
Titles by the prolific US author were lent over 1.5 million times between July 2007 and June 2008. He is one of only four writers to clock up over a million loans in the UK between July 2007 and June 2008.
In the UK, children’s, young adult and educational books represent around 30% of all books borrowed nationally, and the PLR data reflect this, with six children’s writers in the Top 10. Read the UK’s press release
The Irish PLR year runs from January – December and we started collecting loans data from the Irish public libraries in January 2009.
Analysis of the PLR data for 2009 will provide us with a comprehensive picture of national reading trends, changes in our national and regional reading habits and a fascinating insight into our preferences, pastimes and obsessions.
