2025 was a wonderful year at St Croix Falls Public Library! And because it’s a new year, it’s time to do some statistics.
Number of programs for adults/all ages: 28
Number of attendees at those programs: 423
Number of items for adults checked out: 12,726. Of which 7970 were standard-print books, 776 were large-print books, 81 were graphic novels, 433 were audiobooks, 702 were magazines, 2493 were DVDs or Blu-Rays, and 143 were music CDs. Patrons also borrowed 98 items from outside the MORE library system. The remaining items were kits and other equipment, musical scores, microfilm, and games.
The biggest winner of the year is Kristin Hannah’s The Women, with 29 checkouts across all formats. The most popular authors are:
- Kristin Hannah (94 checkouts)
- William Kent Krueger (86 checkouts)
- David Baldacci (84 checkouts)
- Michael Connelly (80 checkouts)
- C.J. Box (68 checkouts)
Here’s our top circulating items list for 2025:
Adult Print Materials:
- The Women by Kristin Hannah (24 checkouts)
- The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (17 checkouts)
- Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (16 checkouts)
- The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens (15 checkouts)
- Four-way tie: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson and The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins and The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (14 checkouts each)
Adult Large Print materials:
- Five-way tie: The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag, The First Ladies by Marie Benedict, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, Horse by Geraldine Brooks, and Her Dark Lies by J. T. Ellison (5 checkouts each)
- Massive tie: Desert Star by Michael Connelly, Outfox by Sandra Brown, Liar, Liar by Lisa Jackson, Big Sky by Kate Atkinson, Sparring Partners by John Grisham, The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, Fair Warning and The Waiting both by Michael Connelly, The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, Three-Inch Teeth by C.J. Box, Lethal Prey by John Sandford, and Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (4 checkouts each)
Adult Audiobooks:
- Island of Glass by Nora Roberts (5 checkouts)
- Aurora by David Koepp and A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult and The Innocent by Harlan Coben (4 checkouts each)
- Massive tie for third place: Night School by Lee Child, Miracle Cure by Harlan Coben, Into the Fire by Gregg Hurwitz, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz, The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves, No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson, The Road Towards Home by Corinne Demas, Manitou Canyon by William Kent Krueger, Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton, and Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (3 checkouts each)
Adult Graphic Novels:
- The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis (3 checkouts)
- Massive tie for second place: Saga volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12 by Brian K. Vaughan, The Sculptor and Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art both by Scott McCloud, The Sandman: King of Dreams by Alisa Kwitney, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson, Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden, The Sandman book 1 by Neil Gaiman et al (2 checkouts each)
Adult DVDs:
- Little Women (2020) (16 checkouts)
- Wicked (2025) (15 checkouts)
- Christopher Robin (2018) (11 checkouts)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (2013) (9 checkouts)
- Little House on the Prairie season 3 (2014) (8 checkouts)
Magazines:
- The New Yorker (61 checkouts across all issues)
- Cook’s Country (43 checkouts across all issues)
- Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine and Country Living (42 checkouts each across all issues)
- MaryJanesFarm (still sort of in print) and Taste of Home and Real Simple (27 checkouts each across all issues)
- Cook’s Illustrated (26 checkouts across all issues)
Music CDs:
- Buddhist Chants & Peace Music by Jin Long Uen, Song Huei Liou, and the Buddhism Chanting Group (3 checkouts)
- Massive tie for second: Ultimate Christmas by various artists, 8 Impromptus by Franz Schubert performed by Sylvia Capova Clavier, Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 by the Eagles, Silver Lining by Bonnie Raitt, Echo by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Symphonie #4 in f minor by Piotr I. Tchaikovsky conducted by Kurt Masur (2 checkouts each)