Britain’s most borrowed book

PAULA Hawkins’s bestselling novel The Girl On The Train was the most borrowed library book in 2015/2016, it has been revealed.

Copies of the thriller were borrowed 72 827 times between July 2015 and July last year or around 200 times per day.

The book has sold 15 million copies around the world and been turned into a major film starring Emily Blunt.

The most borrowed books from UK libraries, 2015/16, were as follows:

The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Personal Lee Child Make Me Lee Child

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Jeff Kinney

Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever Jeff Kinney

Awful Auntie David Walliams

Truth or Die Patterson

Hawkins told the BBC: “As a voracious reader possessed of a fevered imagination, my childhood visits to the library were a thrill.

“I credit those weekly trips with making me the reader and the writer I became, so I could not be more delighted to discover that The Girl on the

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Train was the most borrowed book from UK libraries last year.”

The Girl On The Train was hailed as “the new Gone Girl” and was the biggest adult fiction title, selling 1.1 million copies for £5.3 million (R88m).

Published by Black Swan, it became a word-of-mouth sensation that placed its author, a former financial journalist, in a spot on Forbes’s yearly ranking of the richest writers in the world.

Hawkins does not appear among the top 10 most borrowed authors, however.

US writer James Patterson was number one on that list for the 10th year in a row thanks to his hit crime novels, followed by children’s authors Julia Donaldson, Daisy Meadows, Roderick Hunt and Francesca Simon.

The most borrowed authors from UK libraries, 2015/16:

James Patterson Julia Donaldson Daisy Meadows Roderick Hunt Francesca Simon MC Beaton Adam Blade Jacqueline Wilson Roald Dahl

Nora Roberts The figures come from Public Lending Right, which distributes royalties to authors whose books are borrowed: they get 7.8p each time, and are paid a maximum of £6 600. – The Indpendent

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The Girl on The Train was the most soughtafter book in British libraries over the 2015/2016 period.