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PARMA, Ohio— Children’s books dominated nan astir borrowed titles astatine Cuyahoga County Public Library successful 2025, underscoring nan important domiciled libraries play successful nan lives of families and young readers.
The Cuyahoga County Public Library precocious released its yearly astir borrowed books database of 2025, which recovered that children’s titles dominated nan astir borrowed people titles crossed each genres. Author Dav Pilkey’s “Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club” bid accounted for 4 of those, pinch Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” bid taking 2 more.
“To me, this really illustrates really important our room is to families and young readers,” Wendy Bartlett, nan library’s postulation improvement and acquisitions head said successful a statement.
Among big fiction, Kristin Hannah’s “The Women” topped some people and e-book lists. Mel Robbins’ “The Let Them Theory” likewise topped some nan people and e-book lists for big nonfiction.
Digital borrowing besides continued to turn successful 2025, according to nan room system, which offers e-books and audiobooks done Northeast Ohio-based vendors Playaway and OverDrive, creator of nan Libby app.
Cuyahoga County’s room strategy was classed arsenic nan 15th largest successful nan federation successful a 2019 study by nan Institute of Museum and Library Services based connected its full holdings, according to nan American Library Association.
Northeast Ohioans continued liking and support of their libraries comes aft a difficult twelvemonth for nan state’s nationalist institutions – betwixt nan dismantling of a decades-old authorities backing strategy and millions of dollars successful financial cuts.
Looking up to nan caller year, 2026 will apt beryllium a twelvemonth of difficult choices for section libraries, but room advocates opportunity that libraries they are committed to minimize nan effect felt by nan community.
Here’s a afloat breakdown of nan Cuyahoga County Public Library’s apical checkouts of 2025:
Most borrowed people titles, each genres
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins, by Dav Pilkey
2. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shredder, by Dav Pilkey
3. The Women, by Kristin Hannah
4. The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
5. Cat Kid Comic Club: The Influencers, by Dav Pilkey
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess, by Jeff Kinney
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer, by Jeff Kinney
8. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under nan Sea, by Dav Pilkey
9. The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
10. James, by Percival Everett
Most borrowed people big titles, fiction
1. The Women, by Kristin Hannah
2. The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
3. James, by Percival Everett
4. All nan Colors of nan Dark, by Chris Whitaker
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
6. Sunrise connected nan Reaping, by Suzanne Collins
7. Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
8. Beautiful Ugly, by Alice Feeney
9. The Tenant, by Freida McFadden
10. The Housemaid is Watching, by Freida McFadden
Most borrowed people big titles, nonfiction
1. The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
2. The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene
3. The Laws of Human Nature, by Robert Greene
4. Be Ready When nan Luck Happens, by Ina Garten
5. Little Detours and Spiritual Adventures, by Regina Brett
6. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism astatine nan Dawn of nan Civil War, by Erik Larson
8. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki
9. Good Energy, by Casey Means, MD
10. Cher, Part One: The Memoir, by Cher
Most borrowed eBook titles, fiction
1. The Women: A Novel, by Kristin Hannah
2. Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry
3. Onyx Storm, by Rebecca Yarros
4. The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
5. Say You’ll Remember Me, by Abby Jimenez
6. The Wedding People: A Novel, by Alison Espach
7. The God of nan Woods: A Novel, by Liz Moore
8. Just for nan Summer, by Abby Jimenez
9. Iron Flame, by Rebecca Yarros
10. The Paradise Problem, by Christina Lauren
Most borrowed eBook titles, nonfiction
1. The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
2. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, by Lori Gottlieb
3. Be Ready When nan Luck Happens: A Memoir, by Ina Garten
4. The Anxious Generation: How nan Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Johnathan Haidt
5. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions, by John Grisham
6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism astatine nan Dawn of nan Civil War, by Erik Larson
7. The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom, by Shari Franke
8. When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist, by Paul Kalanithi
9. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
10. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, by John Green
