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BRIDGET WHELAN

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A blog about the stories we tell each other and how we tell them...

Sunday 14 February 2010

The most borrowed authors

Here's the top ten most borrowed library authors over the last decade....Dan Brown -- of Da Vinci Code fame - came in at 351st place in the library lending league. (That man owes me two hours of my time...) 

1. Jacqueline Wilson (16 million)
2. Danielle Steel (14 million)
3. Catherine Cookson (14 million)
4. Josephine Cox (13 million)
5. James Patterson (11 million)
6. RL Stine (10 million)
7. Mick Inkpen (10 million)
8. Janet & Allan Ahlberg (9 million)
9. Roald Dahl (8 million)
10. Agatha Christie (8 million)

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