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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

I'm a Unicorn

Helen Yoon
Meanwhile Back on Earth

Oliver Jeffers
The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!

Mo Willems
As Cool as it Gets

Jory John
Leaves!

Robert Munsch; illustrations by Michael Martchenko
Hippos Go Berserk!

Sandra Boynton
Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend

Alice Schertle; illustrated in the style of Jill McElmurry by John Joseph
Richard Scarry's 5-Minute Stories

Richard Scarry
The Berenstain Bears Take Turns

Mike Berenstain
I Can, Too!

Karen Autio; illustrated by Laura Watson
Dinos Driving

Lynn Leitch; illustrations by Scot Ritchie
Llama Llama Back to School

Reed Duncan; illustrated by JT Morrow
Go, Sled! Go!

James Yang
Peppa's Rainbow

Adapted by Em Lune
If You Laugh, I'm Starting This Book Over

Chris Harris; illustrated by Serge Bloch
The Most Magnificent Idea

Ashley Spires
Peppa Pig and the Great Race

Candlewick Entertainment
How to Draw a Happy Cat

Ethan T. Berlin; illustrations by Jimbo Matison
Scaredy Squirrel Visits the Doctor

Mélanie Watt
My Butt is So Silly

Dawn McMillan; illustrated by Ross Kinnaird

Top 20 Fiction Reads for Kids

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper överlöde

Jeff Kinney
Geronimo Stilton: The Golden Key

Scholastic Inc.
Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot

Dav Pilkey
Thea Stilton: Fiesta in Mexico

Scholastic Inc.
Dragon Masters: Guarding the Invisible Dragons

Tracey West; illustrated by Matt Loveridge
Unicorn Diaries: The Missing Magic

Rebecca Elliott
Dragon Masters: Bloom of the Flower Dragon

Tracey West; illustrated by Graham Howells
Diary of an 8-bit Warrior: From Seeds to Swords

Cube Kid; illustrations by Saboten
Wings of Fire: The Flames of Hope

Tui T. Sutherland
The Bad Guys in Open Wide and Say Arrrgh!

Aaron Blabey
Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time

Lincoln Peirce
Warriors: Sky

Erin Hunter
The Fort

Gordon Korman
Alone

Megan E. Freeman
Rainbow Fairies: Books 1-4

Daisy Meadows; illustrated by Georgie Ripper
Owl Diaries: Get well, Eva

Rebecca Elliott
Ranger's Apprentice: Erak's Ransom

John Flanagan
Key Player

Kelly Yang
Whatever After: Just Dance

Sarah Mlynowski
Spy School Project X

Stuart Gibbs

Top 20 Non-Fiction Reads for Kids

World 2023: Incredible Facts, Awesome Photos, and Weird Wonders

National Geographic
I Spy: a Book of Picture Riddles

Photographs by Walter Wick; Riddles by Jean Marzollo
Outer Space Road Trip Zoom & Find

Rubie Crowe; illustrated by Steven Wood
The Unofficial Harry Potter Hogwarts Handbook

Media Lab Books
Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World

Yuval Noah Harari; illustrated by Ricard Zaplana Ruiz
Pokémon, Legendary and Mythical: Guidebook

Simcha Whitehill
Fiercest Feuds: 5 Books in 1!

Jerry Pallotta; illustrated by Rob Bolster
Ada Twist Scientist: All About Plants!

Andrea Beaty & Dr. Theanne Griffith
Weird but True! Birthdays

National Geographic
5,000 Awesome Facts (About Animals!)

Julie Beer & others
The Secret World of Plants

Ben Hoare; illustrated by Kaley McKean
Planet Earth! Our Exciting World as You've Never Seen it Before

DK Publishing
Dinosaur Atlas: When They Roamed, How They Lived, and Where We Find Their Fossils

National Geographic
Killer Underwear Invasion! How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories

Elise Gravel
The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: a Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits

Rachel Poliquin; illustrations by Clayton Hanmer
Animal BFFs

Sophie Corrigan
Merriam-Webster's Ready for School Words: 1,000 Words for Big Kids

Hannah Campbell; illustrated by Sara Rhys
The Ultimate Book of Big Cats

Steve Winter & Sharon Guynup
What's the Difference? Animals

Susie Rae; illustrations by Dilbag Singh
How Not to Get Eaten: More Than 75 Amazing Wildlife Survival Skills

Josette Reeves; illustrations by Asia Orlando

Top 20 Teen Reads

The Final Gambit

Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Kingdom of the Feared

Kerri Maniscalco
Nothing More to Tell

Karen M. McManus
Family of Liars

E. Lockhart
I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Casey McQuiston
The First to Die at the End

Adam Silvera
Gallant

V. E. Schwab
This Woven Kingdom

Tahereh Mafi
A Magic Steeped in Poison

Judy I. Lin
She Gets the Girl

Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
Greywaren

Maggie Stiefvater
The Whispering Dark

Kelly Andrew
Lightlark

Alex Aster
All My Rage

Sabaa Tahir
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade

Nancy Springer
I Must Betray You

Ruta Sepetys
All of Our Demise

Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman
Pandemic

Yvonne Ventresca
The Ballad of Never After

Stephanie Garber
Seasparrow

Kristin Cashore

Top 20 Fiction Reads

The Maid

Nita Prose
Book Lovers

Emily Henry
The Diamond Eye

Kate Quinn
The It Girl

Ruth Ware
Looking for Jane

Heather Marshall
Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel
Carrie Soto is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley
Haven

Emma Donoghue
Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus
Every Summer After

Carley Fortune
Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson
The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O'Farrell
Fayne

Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr
Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout
Daisy Darker

Alice Feeney
The Last Chairlift

John Irving
A Heart Full of Headstones

Ian Rankin
Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

Top 20 Non-Fiction Reads

The Myth of Normal

Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Freezing Order

Bill Browder
Run Towards the Danger

Sarah Polley
Backroads of Ontario

Ron Brown
We Were Dreamers

Simu Liu
How the World Really Works

Vaclav Smil
I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy
Stolen Focus

Johann Hari
Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner
Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW
Son of Elsewhere

Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Jennie's Boy

Wayne Johnston
Don't Worry, Just Cook

Bonnie Stern & Anna Rupert
Rogues

Patrick Radden Keefe
Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris
Madly, Deeply

Alan Rickman
Go-to Dinners

Ina Garten
The Power of Fun

Catherine Price
Regenesis

George Monbiot
Langdon Hall: A Cookbook

Jason Bangerter & Chris Johns

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