Fiction, non-fiction, kids books and even DVD’s, locals were truly making the most of the North Shore libraries in 2023.
The North Shore certainly has been feasting on library offerings. Collectively, the City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver and West Vancouver Memorial libraries have circulated more than three million physical and digital items this year alone, with the most-read titles heavily influenced by pop culture, staff recommendations, local events and, in a particularly modern turn of events, BookTok (a sub community on the TikTok app).
A large number of books from the list went viral on the app this year, like It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, a romance novel based on the relationship between Hoover’s own parents, and A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny, the eighteenth book to come from Penny’s New York Times bestselling series.