New and Familiar Favorites Top CHPL’s Most Borrowed Items in 2022

Written by Joe Armstrong, Content Specialist, Marketing, Downtown Main Library

In 2022, familiar favorites and plenty of new faces top the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library’s most borrowed items. Check out the most popular items among the 11.7 million books and book-related items borrowed by customers in 2022 - including a staggering 3 million eBook checkouts, opens a new window

CHPL customers did talk about Bruno – a lot! Encanto topped our streaming music charts. John Grisham, David Baldacii, and James Patterson were joined by none other than Dolly Parton in the top adult books of 2022. TikTok sensation A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas broke into the top five books borrowed by teens to join perennial favorites in Naruto and One Piece. Pokémon once again topped the kids books list, joined by Dav Pilker’s “pupular” Dog Man series.

Adult Books | Adult eBooks | Teen Books | Kids Books | Magazines | Movies | Streaming Music | Music CDs | Book Clubs and Educators

What were your favorite book, music, magazine, or movie of 2022? Let us know by commenting below!

Adult Books:

Sparring Partners

Run, Rose, Run

Dream Town

The Judge's List

Steal

Teen Books:

One Piece

Naruto

My Hero Academia

Demon Slayer

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Kids Books:

Pokemon Adventures

Dog Man

Grime and Punishment

Geronimo Stilton

Fetch-22

Adult eBooks:

The Last Thing He Told Me

Summary of Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall

Verity

The Girl in His Shadow

The Lost Apothecary

Magazines:

PEOPLE Harry Styles

Us Weekly

In Touch Weekly

Consumer Reports

Real Simple

Movies:

No Time to Die

Ghostbusters

Dune

Spider-man

Jungle Cruise

Audiobooks:

The Guest List

The Last Thing He Told Me

Where the Crawdads Sing

The Lost Apothecary

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Streaming Music:

Encanto

Hamilton

Midnights

Sing 2 (original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Moana

Music CDs:

30

Raise the Roof

Encanto

NOW That's What I Call Music!

An Evening With Silk Sonic

Items Borrowed for Book Clubs and Educators

Because of Winn-Dixie

Wonder

The Lincoln Highway

The Four Winds

The Crossover