2022 Top Reads in Douglas

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Happy New Year! There are a lot of ways to summarize a library’s activities for any given year. One of the funnest is examining what circulated most, because this tells you what your neighbors have been reading! What follows is a list of the top ten most popular items from our collections, ranked by how many times they were borrowed by residents of Douglas, Massachusetts

Last year was definitely the year of Colleen Hoover & Yellowstone!

Our ten most heavily circulating resources overall were:

  1. Lenovo Thinkpads — 267 checkouts
  2. Mobile Wifi Hotspots — 94 checkouts
  3. People Magazine — 79 checkouts
  4. HGTV Magazine — 58 checkouts
  5. The Bad Guys — 55 checkouts
  6. National Geographic Magazine — 47 checkouts
  7. Country Living Magazine — 37 checkouts
  8. Ukuleles — 37 checkouts
  9. Family Handyman Magazine — 34 checkouts
  10. Garden Gate Magazine — 32 checkouts
  11. Honorable mention to Massachusetts State Parks Pass — 32 checkouts

The ten most popular books were definitely driven by Deb’s book clubs:

  1. The Bad Guys – 55 checkouts
  2. A turkey for Thanksgiving — 32 checkouts
  3. The Secret School — 31 checkouts
  4. Amulet — 30 checkouts
  5. A Little Bit of Winter — 30 checkouts
  6. Where the Crawdad’s Sing — 30 checkouts
  7. Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie — 28 checkouts
  8. Mae Among the Stars — 27 checkouts
  9. Thunder cake — 25 checkouts
  10. I need my Monster — 24 checkouts

The ten most popular DVDs were:

  1. Yellowstone Season 3 — 14 checkouts
  2. Yellowstone Season 4 — 13 checkouts
  3. Encanto — 12 checkouts
  4. The Benefactor — 11 checkouts
  5. Belfast — 11 checkouts
  6. Yellowstone Season 2 — 11 checkouts
  7. The Godfather: Coppola Restoration — 11 checkouts
  8. Ghostbusters: Afterlife — 10 checkouts
  9. Dune — 10 checkouts
  10. King Richard — 10 checkouts

The ten most popular ebooks in Libby/Overdrive were:

  1. It Ends with Us — 33 checkouts
  2. Verity — 29 checkouts
  3. The Guest List — 22 checkouts
  4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — 20 checkouts
  5. Where the Crawdad’s Sing — 18 checkouts
  6. Local Woman Missing — 17 checkouts
  7. The Paris Apartment — 16 checkouts
  8. Project Hail Mary — 14 checkouts
  9. Favorite Socks — 13 checkouts
  10. Rock Paper Scissors — 13 checkouts

The ten most popular audiobooks in Libby/Overdrive were:

  1. Where the Crawdads Sing — 27 checkouts
  2. Ugly Love — 26 checkouts
  3. A Weekend to Change Your Life — 24 checkouts
  4. It Ends with Us — 24 checkouts
  5. Atomic Habits — 23 checkouts
  6. The Last Thing He Told Me — 23 checkouts
  7. The Poppy War — 22 checkouts
  8. Apples Never Fall — 21 checkouts
  9. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — 21 checkouts
  10. The Dragon Republic — 20 checkouts

The ten most popular movies in Kanopy were:

  1. On Golden Pond — 15 plays
  2. Chocloate Road — 10 plays
  3. Midsommar — 7 plays
  4. Grumpy Old Men — 6 plays
  5. I’m An Animal Season 1 — 6 plays
  6. Elmo Finds a Baby Bird — 5 plays
  7. Woman at War — 5 plays
  8. Marty — 5 plays
  9. American Gadfly — 5 plays
  10. Bea and Mr. Jones — 4 plays