2024 Year in Review: Items for Adults

by | Jan 8, 2025 | Children's | 0 comments

It’s been another good year for St Croix Falls Public Library! In total, our 2,202 patrons with St Croix Falls library cards borrowed 28,135 physical items, 171,980 e-books and e-audiobooks, asked 2,392 questions, and used library computers 1,164 times!

Here are some statistics on library services aimed at adults:

91 people attended 5 programs aimed at adults, and 143 people attended 6 more programs without a suggested audience age.

13,344 items (47% of the total), 55% of which were owned by the St Croix Falls Library and 45% by one of the 54 other libraries in our consortium

61% were books, 22% were videos, 6% were large print books, 5% were magazines, 4% were audiobooks, 0.6% were graphic novels, another 0.6% were music CDs, and about 2% were other types of items (book club kits, video games, printed music, etc.)

Most popular books:

  1. The Women by Kristin Hannah (22 checkouts)
  2. The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (15 checkouts each)
  3. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Fox Creek, and The River We Remember by William Kent Kreuger (11 checkouts each)
  4. Spirit Crossing by William Kent Kreuger (10 checkouts)
  5. It Starts With Us and It Ends With Us and Verity by Colleen Hoover, Home Front by Kristin Hannah, Toxic Prey by John Sandford, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman, Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez, and The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misch (9 checkouts each)
  6. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor (our first non-fiction title on the list!), North Woods by Daniel Mason, Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Still Life by Louise Penny, Summer Island by Kristin Hannah, and Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (8 checkouts each)

Most Popular Audiobooks:

  1. No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson (6 checkouts)
  2. Treasure State by C.J. Box, The River by Peter Heller, and Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult (5 checkouts each)
  3. Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts, Boundary Waters and Manitou Canyon by William Kent Kreuger, Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly, and Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (4 checkouts each)

Most Popular Large Print:

  1. The Investigator by John Sandford (7 checkouts)
  2. Three-Inch Teeth and Shadows Reel by C.J. Box, and Still Life by Louise Penny (6 checkouts each)
  3. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks, Never Never by Colleen Hoover, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Fox Creek by William Kent Kreuger, The Exchange by John Grisham, and Endangered by C.J. Box (5 checkouts each)
  4. The Survivors by Jane Harper, Never Tell by Lisa Gardner, The Guide by Peter Heller, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag, Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer, Outfox by Sandra Brown, and Shattered by Joan Johnston (4 checkouts each)

Most Popular Videos:

  1. Little Women (17 checkouts)
  2. Dune (14 checkouts)
  3. Barbie and Oppenheimer (12 checkouts each — yes, really, they tied)
  4. Little House on the Prairie Season 2 (9 checkouts)
  5. My Sister’s Keeper and Soul Surfer (8 checkouts each)
  6. Poor Things, Elf, and Past Lives (7 checkouts each)

Most Popular Magazines:

  1. The New Yorker (58 checkouts over all issues)
  2. Cook’s Country (32 checkouts over all issues)
  3. The Family Handyman (29 checkouts over all issues)
  4. MaryJanesFarm, Milk Street Magazine, and Real Simple (28 checkouts each over all issues)
  5. Cook’s Illustrated (26 checkouts over all issues)

Most Popular Graphic Novels:

  1. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (6 checkouts)
  2. Spice & Wolf, vol. 3 by Isuna Hasekura, Marvel Encyclopedia, and The Sandman, vol 1 by Neil Gaiman et al. (3 checkouts each)
  3. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast, I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp by Fahmida Azim, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, The Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Waterson, Spice & Wolf vol 1 and vol 2 by Isuna Hasekura, and Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld (2 checkouts each)

Most Popular Music CDs (2 checkouts each):