The complete list includes the Top 10 eBooks or audiobooks in eight categories. Most audiobooks include an excerpt. You'll find it by clicking a title link and looking on the right side of the page.
What follows are the number one audiobooks and eBooks downloaded in each of the eight categories.
This October, 2009 data comes more than 9,000 libraries that use OverDrive.
Download Audiobooks - Adult Fiction
1, The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (Books on Tape
Two months on list and second month at #1 in this category)
Download Audiobooks - Adult Nonfiction
1. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell (Hachette Audio)
22 months on list.
Download Audiobooks - Juvenile Fiction
1.Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (Listening Library)
22 months on list.
Download Audiobooks - Juvenile Nonfiction
1.Night, by Elie Wiesel (Audio Bookshelf, LLC)
22 months on list.
Download eBooks - Adult Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
2 months on list.
Download eBooks - Adult Nonfiction
1. Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company)
22 months on list.
Download eBooks - Juvenile Fiction
1. New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
22 months on list.
Download eBooks - Juvenile Nonfiction
1.Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson (Penguin USA, Inc.)
9 months on list.
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