These are 2019's most-borrowed digital books.
Rakuten OverDrive, a platform for digital books (used by more than 43,000 libraries and schools worldwide), has released a list of its most-borrowed ebooks and audiobooks in 2019. There are no real surprises on the list, besides maybe the fact that so many people want to listen to a woman tell them to wash their faces. Hey, at least it was free?
Most popular ebooks:
- Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
- Michelle Obama, Becoming
- Tara Westover, Educated
- Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers
- Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere
Most popular audiobooks:
- Michelle Obama, Becoming
- Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
- Tara Westover, Educated
- Rachel Hollis Girl, Wash Your Face
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
[via Library Journal]
audiobooks
Celeste Ng
Delia Owens
ebooks
jk rowling
Liane Moriarty
libraries
Michelle Obama
rachel hollis
Tara Westover
Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.
