Canadian female authors have topped the charts for the most-read books in the Comox Valley last year, according to Vancouver Island Regional Library.
In addition, a Comox Valley author has also cracked the top-10 list with her sixth novel.
VIRL recently released its most-read books of 2022, and in the Comox Valley - which includes titles specific to Comox, Cumberland and Courtenay branches - Louise Penny’s The Madness of Crowds was the most-read book in the adult list.
That was followed by Canadian authors Miriam Toews’s Fight Night and Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny’s State of Terror: A Novel took the fourth spot while Comox Valley’s Emily St. John Mandel’s sixth novel, Sea of Tranquility rounded out the top five.
In the sixth spot was Lee Child’s Better Off Dead, followed by Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel, Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and Michael Connelly’s The Dark Hours.
The local list follows fairly closely with VIRL’s most popular library books throughout their system borrowed throughout the year.
Visit to see the top 10 lists for young adult, children’s books, ebooks and digital audiobooks for 2022.
VIRL is the fifth largest library system in British Columbia and has 39 branch libraries and more than five million items circulated.
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