Public Lending Remuneration

The ‘most borrowed statistics’ are compiled by the PLR Office from data provided by library services around the country. Following a review of our method of calculation, the Top 10 National List of Most Borrowed Titles and Authors is now based on a larger number of titles.

The lists are compiled using the Top 250 titles from each of the public library authorities. The data below are from January 2011.

Most Borrowed Titles in January 2011

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
3. The official theory test – Road safety Authority
4. Minding Frankie – Maeve Binchy
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney
6. Homecoming – Cathy Kelly
7. The last straw – Jeff Kinney
8. Room- Emma Donoghue
9. Dog days – Jeff Kinney
10. The help – Kathryn Stockett

For the third successive month, J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ assumes the Number 1 spot on our list of Top Titles loaned in January 2011.

‘Room’, the international bestseller and award winning novel by Emma Donghue is the story of a five-year-old called Jack and a celebration of resilience and the love between parent and child. ‘Room’ remains at Number 8 for the second successive month in the list of Top Titles.

The ‘most borrowed statistics’ are compiled by the PLR Office from data provided by library services around the country. The Top 10 National List of Most Borrowed Titles and Authors below is compiled using the Top 100 titles from each of the public library authorities. The data below are from November 2010.

Most Borrowed Titles in November 2010

1.   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
2.   Official Driver Theory Test – Prometric Ireland Ltd
3.   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
4.   The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
5.   Horrid Henry’s Christmas Cracker – Francesca Simon
6.   Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter – Francesca Simon
7.   Ghost Light – Joseph O’Connor
8.   Horrid Henry’s Stinkbomb – Francesca Simon
9.   Horrid Henry gets rich quick – Francesca Simon
10.  Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling

November’s data of Most Borrowed Titles sees the ‘Official Driver Theory Test’ knocked off top spot down to number two in favour of J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ while Stieg Larsson’s ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is placed third in our monthly Top ten.  

Francesca Simon is accountable for four out of ten titles, with her seasonal offering, ‘Horrid Henry’s Christmas Cracker’ well placed at number five while Irish authors are represented by Joseph O’Connor’s latest offering, ‘Ghost Light’, which appears in seventh spot.

Most Borrowed Authors in November 2010

1.  Francesca Simon
2.  J.K. Rowling
3.  Roald Dahl
4.  Jacqueline Wilson
5.  Roger Hargreaves
 6. James Patterson
 7. Jeff Kinney
 8. Stieg Larsson
 9. Daisy Meadows
 10. Judi Curtin

The data for Most Borrowed Authors in November 2010 shows only a slight variance from the previous month as the Top 10 authors remain the same, with only their positions in the list altered to any degree.

J.K. Rowling moves from number eight to number two thanks to the success of her ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ with Roald Dahl also making impressive headway as he moves from number 6 to number 3.

The only Irish author represented is London-born but Irish reared Judi Curtin, who occupies 10^th place on the list due largely to the popularity of her ‘Alice and Megan’ series of children’s titles.

The ‘most borrowed statistics’ are compiled by the PLR Office from data provided by library services around the country. The Top 10 National List of Most Borrowed Titles and Authors below is compiled using the Top 100 titles from each of the public library authorities. The data below are from December 2010.

Most Borrowed Titles in December 2010

1.   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
2.   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
3.   Official Driver Theory Test – Prometric Ireland Ltd
4.   Minding Frankie – Maeve Binchy
5.   The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
6.   Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
7.   The girl who played with fire – Stieg Larsson
8.   Room – Emma Donoghue
9.   Stand by me – Sheila O’Flanagan
10.  The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest – Stieg Larsson

For the second successive month, J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ assumes the Number 1 spot on our list of Top Titles loaned in December 2010.

The list is noticeable for the large number of Irish fiction writers present, as Maeve Binchy makes a welcome return at number four with ‘Minding Frankie’, while the sixth, eighth and nineth positions are filled by Colm Toibin, Emma Donoghue and Sheila O’Flanagan.

In addition, Stieg Larsson becomes only the second author to have more than two titles listed within a monthly Top 10 list, with ‘The girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ the most popular of his hugely-acclaimed crime trilogy.     

Most Borrowed Authors in December 2010

1.  Francesca Simon
2.  J.K. Rowling
3.  James Patterson
4.  Jacqueline Wilson
5.  Jeff Kinney
 6. Stieg Larsson
 7. Maeve Binchy
 8. Sheila O’Flanagan
 9. Roger Hargreaves
 10. Jodi Picoult

Francesca Simon’s popularity with Irish Public Library users shows no signs of abating as she continues in poll position in our Top 10 list of most borrowed authors.

American author Jodi Picoult returns to our list in the Number 10 position while a mixture of a popular back catalogue and the success of her new novel ‘Stand by me’ elevates Sheila O’Flanagan to number 8 in our Top 10.