The memoir also shares one quality with the vast majority of the other books that topped the 2020 lists: It wasn't published this year. Toronto list features 4 repeats from last yearInstead, the Toronto list has four repeat top titles from last year: Becoming by Obama, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Normal People by Sally Rooney. "A lot of that had to do with the fact that print books just weren't available," Banks said. Besides Obama's Becoming, three other books appear on at least half of the 10 libraries' most-borrowed lists this year. Three Canadian authors on half the top 10 listsGladwell is one of three Canadian authors who appear on roughly half of the Ontario lists.

Source: CBC News December 31, 2020 09:00 UTC