Year in Review: Most searched & borrowed titles of 2022

Did you know that Library’s electronic resources are available to you, 24/7 from anywhere in the world? Articles, e-books, e-journals, newspapers, databases – you name it, we probably have it and McGill students, faculty, and staff members have access to it all. Take advantage of our online video and film libguide and the online audio & discographies libguide for some great streaming resources to enjoy over the holiday period. If you are curious or need some inspiration for work or play, check out the 2022 roundup below. Special thanks to Associate Dean of Collection Services Joseph Hafner for his help in bringing this information together.


20 most borrowed e-books on McGill Overdrive*

  1. Book Lovers
  2. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
  3. Hook, Line, and Sinker: Bellinger Sisters Series, Book 2
  4. Under One Roof
  5. The Spanish Love Deception: A Novel
  6. The Paris Apartment: A Novel
  7. The Maid: A Novel
  8. The Deal: Off-Campus, #1
  9. Just Haven’t Met You Yet
  10. A Touch of Darkness: Hades & Persephone Series, Book 1
  11. I’m Glad My Mom Died
  12. Stuck with You
  13. Neon Gods: Dark Olympus Series, Book 1
  14. Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
  15. The Atlas Six: Atlas Series, Book 1
  16. November 9: A Novel
  17. Something Wilder
  18. House of Sky and Breath: Crescent City Series, Book 2
  19. When We Lost Our Heads
  20. Below Zero
  21. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

*Reminder: OverDrive will be retiring their classic app at the beginning of 2023 and moving users over to their Libby app. Existing users of the classic app will be able to continue using it until the start of the new year. The app was removed from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Microsoft Store in February 2022. Access to the McGill OverDrive website will continue without change. We are inviting the McGill community to make the change to Libby now and take advantage of its new interface. McGill Library OverDrive collections can already be borrowed and viewed using Libby and multiple libraries (for example, your local public library) can be added.


20 most borrowed audiobooks on McGill Overdrive*

  1. A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Book 1 (unabridged)
  2. I’m Glad My Mom Died (unabridged)
  3. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (unabridged)
  4. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (unabridged)
  5. A Court of Mist and Fury: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series, Book 2 (unabridged)
  6. How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love (unabridged)
  7. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (unabridged)
  8. The Paris Apartment: A Novel (unabridged)
  9. Book Lovers (unabridged)
  10. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It–A Novel: The Finlay Donovan Series Series, Book 1 (unabridged)
  11. Taste: My Life Through Food (unabridged)
  12. Just Haven’t Met You Yet (unabridged)
  13. Ariadne: A Novel (unabridged)
  14. The Final Girl Support Group (unabridged)
  15. One Last Stop (unabridged)
  16. Breasts and Eggs (unabridged)
  17. The Maidens: A Novel (unabridged)
  18. Notes on Grief (unabridged)
  19. Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition (unabridged)
  20. The Spanish Love Deception: A Novel (unabridged)

*Reminder: OverDrive will be retiring their classic app at the beginning of 2023 and moving users over to their Libby app. Existing users of the classic app will be able to continue using it until the start of the new year. The app was removed from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Microsoft Store in February 2022. Access to the McGill OverDrive website will continue without change. We are inviting the McGill community to make the change to Libby now and take advantage of its new interface. McGill Library OverDrive collections can already be borrowed and viewed using Libby and multiple libraries (for example, your local public library) can be added.


10 most borrowed films on McGill Kanopy (video)

  1. XXY
  2. Vivre sa vie
  3. In Sickness and in Wealth
  4. Paris is Burning
  5. The Grace Lee Project
  6. Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken
  7. Tres Madres
  8. Emotionally Focused Therapy: Part 1
  9. Race – The Power of an Illusion
  10. 8 1/2

Top tracks from Naxos Music Library (audio)

  1. O ignee spiritus (arr. B. Bagby, E. Gaver and B. Thornton for vocal ensemble), Hildegarde of Bingen: Voices of Ecstacy (Sequentia)
  2. Viderunt omnes (plainchant), Léonin/Pérotin: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral (Tonus Peregrinus, Pitts)
  3. Alleluia, O virga mediatrix, Hildegard Von Bingen: Hymns / Sequences / Antiphones / Responds (Oxford Camerata, Summerly)
  4. Morir non puo il mio cuore, Hilliard Ensemble: English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals
  5. Prelude No. 15 in G Major, BWV 860, Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier (The), Book 1 (Beauséjour)
  6. Part I: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) – Accompanied Recitative: There were shepherds (Soprano), Handel: Messiah (Gauvin, Blaze, Muller, Polegato, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra, Taurins)
  7. Prologue: Io, che d’alti sospir vaga e di pianti (La Tragedia), Peri: Euridice [ Opera ] (Les Arts Baroques, Podeur
  8. I. Adagio sostenuto, Beethoven: ‘Moonlight’ Sonata / Chopin: Mazurkas (Friedman) (1923-1926)
  9. Act I: Ah! Belinda, I am press’d with torment (Dido), Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Christie)
  10. No. 1. Allegretto, Scriabin: Piano Music (Vers la Flamme) (Ashkenazy)
  11. Part I: L’adoration de la Terre (The Adoration of the Earth), Stravinsky, I.: Sacre du printemps (Le) / Symphonies of Wind Instruments (Montreal Symphony, Dutoit)

20 top search terms in the McGill catalogue

  1. UpToDate
  2. Criterion on Demand
  3. PubMed
  4. Electric motor drives; modeling, analysis and control
  5. Oxford Handbook of Canadian politics
  6. JSTOR
  7. New England Journal of Medicine
  8. Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British sources
  9. Antigone
  10. Practice evidence nutrition pen
  11. New York Times
  12. Scopus
  13. Kanopy
  14. Society in an age of plague
  15. Ancient medicine and nutton
  16. Oxford English Dictionary
  17. Globe and Mail
  18. The Economist
  19. Medline
  20. Chicago Manual of Style

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