Top Reads of 2022
Our library customers borrowed a lot of physical and digital books over the last 12 months, but these reads are our most-borrowed books of the year.
Top 20 Picturebooks
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Helen Yoon
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Oliver Jeffers
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Mo Willems
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Jory John
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Robert Munsch; illustrations by Michael Martchenko
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Sandra Boynton
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Alice Schertle; illustrated in the style of Jill McElmurry by John Joseph
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Richard Scarry
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Mike Berenstain
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Karen Autio; illustrated by Laura Watson
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Lynn Leitch; illustrations by Scot Ritchie
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Reed Duncan; illustrated by JT Morrow
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James Yang
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Adapted by Em Lune
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Chris Harris; illustrated by Serge Bloch
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Ashley Spires
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Candlewick Entertainment
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Ethan T. Berlin; illustrations by Jimbo Matison
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Mélanie Watt
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Dawn McMillan; illustrated by Ross Kinnaird
Top 20 Fiction Reads for Kids
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Jeff Kinney
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Scholastic Inc.
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Dav Pilkey
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Scholastic Inc.
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Tracey West; illustrated by Matt Loveridge
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Rebecca Elliott
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Tracey West; illustrated by Graham Howells
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Cube Kid; illustrations by Saboten
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Tui T. Sutherland
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Aaron Blabey
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Lincoln Peirce
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Erin Hunter
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Gordon Korman
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Megan E. Freeman
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Daisy Meadows; illustrated by Georgie Ripper
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Rebecca Elliott
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John Flanagan
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Kelly Yang
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Sarah Mlynowski
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Stuart Gibbs
Top 20 Non-Fiction Reads for Kids
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National Geographic
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Photographs by Walter Wick; Riddles by Jean Marzollo
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Rubie Crowe; illustrated by Steven Wood
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Media Lab Books
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Yuval Noah Harari; illustrated by Ricard Zaplana Ruiz
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Simcha Whitehill
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Jerry Pallotta; illustrated by Rob Bolster
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Andrea Beaty & Dr. Theanne Griffith
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National Geographic
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Julie Beer & others
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Ben Hoare; illustrated by Kaley McKean
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DK Publishing
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National Geographic
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Elise Gravel
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Rachel Poliquin; illustrations by Clayton Hanmer
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Sophie Corrigan
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Hannah Campbell; illustrated by Sara Rhys
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Steve Winter & Sharon Guynup
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Susie Rae; illustrations by Dilbag Singh
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Josette Reeves; illustrations by Asia Orlando
Top 20 Teen Reads
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Kerri Maniscalco
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Karen M. McManus
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E. Lockhart
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Casey McQuiston
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Adam Silvera
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V. E. Schwab
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Tahereh Mafi
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Judy I. Lin
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Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
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Maggie Stiefvater
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Kelly Andrew
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Alex Aster
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Sabaa Tahir
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Nancy Springer
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Ruta Sepetys
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Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman
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Yvonne Ventresca
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Stephanie Garber
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Kristin Cashore
Top 20 Fiction Reads
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Nita Prose
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Emily Henry
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Kate Quinn
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Ruth Ware
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Heather Marshall
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Emily St. John Mandel
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Lucy Foley
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Emma Donoghue
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Bonnie Garmus
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Carley Fortune
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Kate Atkinson
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Maggie O'Farrell
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Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Suzette Mayr
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Elizabeth Strout
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Alice Feeney
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John Irving
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Ian Rankin
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Celeste Ng
Top 20 Non-Fiction Reads
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Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
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Bill Browder
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Sarah Polley
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Ron Brown
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Simu Liu
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Vaclav Smil
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Jennette McCurdy
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Johann Hari
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Michelle Zauner
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Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW
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Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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Wayne Johnston
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Bonnie Stern & Anna Rupert
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Patrick Radden Keefe
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David Sedaris
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Alan Rickman
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Ina Garten
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Catherine Price
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George Monbiot
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Jason Bangerter & Chris Johns