It’s been quite a year at the St Croix Falls Public Library! In total, we circulated items to patrons over 40,000 times this year. And that doesn’t count the over 10,000 ebooks our patrons checked out. Our most popular item this year was the DVD 1883: A Yellowstone Story, which got checked out 32 times! And our most popular large print titles this year were all non-fiction. The Streisand Effect was also very much in evidence, with often-challenged titles getting lots of circulation. The numbers, and titles, continue to surprise us. Here are some of the most popular titles checked out from our library this past year in different categories:
Adult fiction:
- Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger (23 checkouts)
- The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes (22 checkouts)
- The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (21 checkouts)
Adult nonfiction:
- Spare by Prince Harry
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond (14 checkouts each)
- Activate Your Vagus Nerve by Navaz Habib
- No Grid Survival Projects by Michael Major (13 checkouts each)
Adult graphic novels:
- Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (12 checkouts)
- Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast (10 checkouts)
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (8 checkouts)
Adult audiobooks:
- America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgims, Fighting Women and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C. Davis
- Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
- How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery
- The White Darkness by David Grann
- Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann (8 checkouts each: a 5-way tie!)
Fiction DVDs:
- 1883: A Yellowstone Origin Story (32 checkouts)
- 007: The Pierce Brosnan Collection (20 checkouts)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (16 checkouts)
Non-fiction DVDs:
- Classical Stretch Season 13 (18 checkouts)
- Alone in the Wilderness
- Heal: Change Your Mind, Change Your Body, Change Your Life
- Little Richard: I Am Everything (16 checkouts each)
Large Print:
- Spare by Prince Harry
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann (16 checkouts each)
- Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir of the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg (14 checkouts)
Magazine titles:
- The New Yorker (83 checkouts across all issues)
- Country Living (59 checkouts across all issues)
- Mother Earth News (54 checkouts across all issues)
Which were your favorites? What titles are you looking forward to the most in 2024?