Overdrive is the largest digital distributor of audiobooks and ebooks. The vast majority of public libraries in Canada and the United States do business with them. Many people who are not in a position to spend hundreds of dollars each month to satiate their literary thirst end up borrow books on their smartphones, tablets or e-readers. Today, Overdrive has just announced the most popular audiobooks and ebooks of 2018.
Most Popular Ebooks from the Library
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press)
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)
- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (William Morrow)
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Ballantine Books)
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (Anchor)
- Origin by Dan Brown (Anchor)
- Educated by Tara Westover (Random House)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Rooster Bar by John Grisham (Dell)
- Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (Henry Holt and Co.)
Most Popular Audiobooks from the Library
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Pottermore)
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press)
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperAudio)
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Random House Audio)
- A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’engle (Listening Library)
- Origin by Dan Brown (Random House Audio)
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Random House Audio)
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (Macmillan Audio)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (Pottermore)
- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (HarperAudio)
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
