As we close out another year at the Champlain Library, one trend remained unchanged: our museum passes and Ontario Parks passes were once again the most checked-out items of the year. But books are still our bread and butter and it’s always fun to look at what our community was most eager to escape into, and learn about, in 2025.
Top 10 Fiction Checkouts
- The Grey Wolf, Louise Penny
- The Berry Pickers, Amanda Peters
- The Magic All Around, Jennifer Moorman
- Blood Moon, Sandra Brown
- Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros
- Nightshade, Michael Connelly
- The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
- Paranoia, James Patterson & James O. Born
- Finding Flora, Elinor Florence
Top 10 Non-Fiction Checkouts
- Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari
- The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins
- The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt
- The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl
- Frommer’s Spain, various
- Simply Jamie, Jamie Oliver
- Health for All, Jane Philpott
- A Call to Farms, Jennifer Grayson
- Freedom, Angela Merkel
- Best in Travel 2025, Lonely Planet
Top 10 Game Checkouts
- Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
- Sabobatage
- Blokus
- La chasse aux pirates
- Qwirkle
- Taco, chapeau, gâteau, cadeau, pizza
- Hedbanz
- Q-bitz
- The Enchanted World: Hide and Seek
- Taco vs Burrito
Top 10 DVD Checkouts
- Conclave
- The Wild Robot
- Nosferatu
- The Garfield Movie
- Transformers One
- Wicked
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Operation Fortune
- Alien: Romulus
Junior
- The New Girl (GN), Cassandra Calin
- Wings of fire bk.11 – The lost continent, Tui T. Sutherland
- Dog Man v.7 (CB), Dav Pilkey
- Dog Man v.1 (CB), Dav Pilkey
- Cat Kid Comic Club (CB), Dav Pilkey
- Dog Man v.2 (CB), Dav Pilkey
- Dog Man v.3 (CB), Dav Pilkey
- Wings of fire bk.1 – The dragonet prophecy, Tui T. Sutherland
- Dog Man v.8 (CB), Dav Pilkey
- Catie the Catsitter – Best Friends for Never (GN), Colleen AF Venable
Junior Non-Fiction
- Lego Star Wars Ideas Book
- Deadly Animal Atlas
- Mysterious World
- Weird but True! World 2024
- Atlas of Ocean Adventures
- Treasury of Greek mythology
- Race cars up close
- Ripley’s believe it or not! dare to discover
- Spooky lakes
- The book of mythical beasts & magical creatures