Louisville City Wire

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For the third year in a row, the Louisville Free Public Library has surpassed the one million digital check out milestone. With a record-breaking 1.4 million eBooks and downloadable audiobooks checked out in 2023, LFPL continues to enjoy strong growth and interest in digital materials.

LFPL’s total checkouts, including print books, eBooks, and audiobooks, topped 3.6 million in 2023 – with eBooks and audiobooks accounting for more than a third of that total.

Access to the Library’s vast catalog is free to all LFPL cardholders, and anyone living, working, owning property, or going to school in Jefferson County is eligible. To learn more, visit LFPL.org or stop by any of the Library’s area locations.

LFPL’s most borrowed books, eBooks, and audiobooks in 2023

Top eBooks

1.    Verity by Colleen Hoover

2.    Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

3.    It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

4.    Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

5.    The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

Top Fiction Books (print)

1.    The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

2.    Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

3.    The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

4.    Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

5.    The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham

Top Nonfiction Books (print)

1.    Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

2.    Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

3.    I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

4.    Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner

5.    Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Top Audiobooks

1.    Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

2.    The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

3.    I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

4.    Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

5.    Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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