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The New York Public Library recently celebrated its 125th anniversary with a list of its top 10 most checked-out books in NYPL history.

It wasn’t an easy feat. The list required librarians and analysts spend more than six months looking up every title in its catalogue to see how many times each one had been borrowed. Circulation data, best-seller lists, archives and awards were all crunched to help determine its Top 10 list.

While the Vancouver Public Library’s catalogue is not quite as large as the NYPL’s — Vancouver has about 9.5 million physical and digital items available for loan compared to the NYPL’s 55 million — its history is still extensive.

It got us thinking: what are the most checked-out books in Vancouver?

But first, a few notes. Because the VPL only started being able to track circulation numbers by title beginning in 2004, the list they provided only covers borrowing that took place in the past 16 years. The VPL’s ebooks OverDrive collection launched in 2012, so the ebooks and audiobooks list only covers the past seven years.