See What Others Are Reading & Watching! Top Checkouts of Academic Year 2024-25.
July 10, 2025
We're looking back at the books and streaming films that captured your attention during the 2024-2025 academic year! Here are the print books, ebooks & audiobooks, and streaming films that garnered the most checkouts/streams.
Top Picks in Popular Reading
Let's start with the books that flew off the shelves! Specifically, print books housed in the Popular Reading Collection. This collection consists of a continuously updated selection of new releases, recent bestsellers, and hot topics. The Pop Reading shelves are conveniently located near the café, making it easy to browse for something new to read. You can also view the full Popular Reading Collection online.
Top Fiction
- Funny Story by Emily Henry
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
- The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
- Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Top Nonfiction
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
- I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein
- The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins
- When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
High-Demand Downloads: Ebooks and Audiobooks from OverDrive/Libby
Take a look at the top downloads from OverDrive/Libby! This digital book collection continues to grow in popularity, offering readers convenient access to ebooks and audiobooks anytime, anywhere. It's easy to add multiple libraries to the Libby app to streamline borrowing from all of the libraries you use. Check out our blog post on OverDrive and Libby for more information and quick instructions, or go directly to OverDrive to start searching,
Top Fiction
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
- Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Top Nonfiction
- Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Natalie Hodges
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
- Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
Sought-After Streaming Films
The library provides access to 130,000+ streaming films, documentaries, and educational videos via four different vendors. Here are the films that streamed their way to the top of the list:
- Moonlight
- Psycho (1960)
- Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media
- Much Ado About Nothing
- The Silence of the Lambs
As fun as it is to look at our most popular items, we hope you'll explore our collections further! Use Library Search on the library homepage to search by title/author/topic, explore our curated collections (including staff picks and new popular reading), or ask us for a recommendation.