TASMANIAN teenagers were last year picking up The Hunger Games trilogy while their parents flicked through Jamie Oliver cookbooks or read about US spies.
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LINC Tasmania has released its most-borrowed books for 2014 in celebration of Library and Information Week, which ends on Sunday.
A Long Way Home, which was written by Tasmanian Saroo Brierley and is now being made into a major motion picture, topped the list for adult non-fiction, while Lee Child's thriller Never Go Back took the top spot for adult fiction.
More than four million items were borrowed from LINC Tasmania during the 2013-14 financial year.
Launceston LINC manager Garry Conroy-Cooper said his pick of the list was children's picture book The Wrong Book by Nick Bland.
"I describe it as Big Brother for elephants," he said.
"It's very well-illustrated account of a kid being driven mad."
Mr Conroy-Cooper said Library and Information Week was an important time to reflect on the importance of LINC in Tasmania.
He said the Launceston LINC had an economic impact of up to $9 million for the Launceston area, measured in part by its use by business people, its role in boosting adult literacy and numeracy rates and importance to small business owners.
He said the LINC was proven to have a positive impacts on users' health and wellbeing.