Some libraries only released their five or 10 top-borrowed books overall; others sorted the year’s most popular loans into fiction, non-fiction, books for children and other categories.

For more books featuring characters with disabilities, check out the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award. For a wide variety of diverse titles, see We Need Diverse Books.

The 2022 novel "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus was also popular at all three libraries, coming in second in Toronto, third in Halifax and fifth on Saskatoon's list of adult fiction books.

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