Calling all bookworms. If you’re looking for some good reading material to kick off the new year, the Toronto Public Library (TPL) has released a list of the city’s most popular checked-out books in 2022.

TikTok’s popular literature-obsessed subcommunity, BookTok, has sparked a strong interest in trending authors and titles. Several of the books you see on this list were among the ones that went viral on the app.

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From romance to mystery to self-help, here are Toronto’s 10 most popular checked-out books from public libraries in 2022.

  1. The Maid by Nita Prose
  2. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  4. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  5. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
  6. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
  7. Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1 by Julia Quinn
  8. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  9. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
  10. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

TPL has also released a list of the 10 most popular teen books of last year. Here are the most popular authors and titles below!

  1. Sarah J. Maas
  2. Leigh Bardugo
  3. Alice Oseman
  4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  5. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  6. Holly Black
  7. Karen M. McManus
  8. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
  9. Tahereh Mafi
  10. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

There you have it, friends. The most popular books of the year from Toronto Public Library. Happy reading!

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