Once again this year, Quebec books are popular with subscribers to the Bibliothèque et archives nationaux du Québec (BAnQ), which published its list of the most borrowed documents of 2023 on Monday.
May our joy remainby Kevin Lambert, is the most borrowed novel of 2023, followed by The Alaska Sanders Affair by Joël Dicker, by Maple – a trashicomic thrillerby David Goudreault, and by Montreal North, by Mariana Mazza. A sign that Quebec literature is doing well, the proportion of Quebec novels appearing in the BAnQ list increased from 20% in 2018 to 50% last year and this year.
From zero to millionaire – invest in the stock market without sufferingfrom the journalist of The Press Nicolas Bérubé, for his part, comes in first position in the Documentaries, essays and biographies category.
In the Comics category, 10 of the 12 comic artists present are from Quebec. The little astronautby Jean-Paul Eid, rises to first place, while six volumes of the series by Riad Sattouf The Arab of the future are on the list.
As for children’s books, the British JK Rowling remains the darling: seven of her books – with The Ickebog – are among the 20 most borrowed novels.