If the top ten books borrowed from Cardiff Libraries is anything to go by, the city is full of super sleuths and would-be detectives.
A staggering six out of the ten books in the top ten most borrowed books in Cardiff are crime thrillers with Dan Brown topping the chart with The Lost Symbol a crime thriller set in Washington DC after the events of The Da Vinci Code.
The most borrowed books have been announced by Public Lending Right ahead of National Libraries Day which takes place on Saturday, February 4.
Other favourite genres in Cardiff were Fiction, Teen Horror and Historical Fiction.
The figures from the Public Lending Right show that Cardiff has very different tastes to the UK as a whole, with only three books featuring in both top tens, however Dan Brown’s popularity stretches across the whole of the UK topping both charts.
Executive Member for Sport, Culture and Leisure, Cllr Nigel Howells, said: “It appears that there are a lot of wannabe Miss Marples and Sherlock Holmes in Cardiff. It’s really interesting to see what books are the most borrowed in Cardiff and helps us to decide which books we need to invest in.”
The Top Ten Cardiff Books
1. The Lost Symbol -Dan Brown
2. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
3. The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
4. Room – Emma Donoghue
5. Worth Dying For – Lee Child
6. 61 Hours – Lee Child
7. The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner : an Eclipse novella – Stephenie Meyer
8. Private – James Patterson
9. Caught – Harlan Coben
10. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
Top Ten UK Books
1. The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
2. 61 Hours – Lee Child
3. Private – James Patterson
4. 9th Judgement – James Patterson
5. Worst Case – James Patterson
6. Caught – Harlan Coben
7. Don’t Blink – James Patterson & Howard Roughan
8. The Postcard Killers – James Patterson & Liza Marklund
9. The Complaints – Ian Rankin
10. Worth Dying For – Lee Child
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