THE Girl on the Train, the best-selling thriller by Paula Hawkins, which is now also a film starring Emily Blunt, is set to top the 2016 lending charts at North Yorkshire libraries, including Ingleton, Bentham and Settle, for the number of times it was borrowed in both physical and e-book editions.
Hard copies of the novel were borrowed 1,735 times from libraries across the county up to the end of November, 250 times more than the second-placed title, Make Me, the 20th Jack Reacher story by author Lee Child, who used to live at Kirkby Lonsdale.
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The e-book version of The Girl on the Train was borrowed 131 times, again beating Make Me into second place with 118.
Overall, during the year to date, almost 2,180,000 physical books have been borrowed from North Yorkshire libraries along with almost 57,500 e-books.
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