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It’s been a very busy year at the Winchester Public Library. And with 2025 drawing to a close, we wanted to know what the most requested items were.
Nicole Langley, WPL director, and Tony Corsentino, head of Bibliographic Services, said that from Jan. 1 to Nov. 30, 2025, the library saw 146,557 checkouts. And people weren’t just checking items out once, 97,576 items were renewed by patrons.
Adults were loving their print in 2026, with 38,410 print books checked out in all adult categories. But the kids had that beat, as there were 91,301 checkouts in all the childrens’ categories.
So what was everyone looking for? The following are the Top 10 most requested titles by Winchester patrons in the same time frame for both kids and adults:
Children’s top 10 most popular books
1) “Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan” by Sasami Nitori
2) “Dog Man: Fetch-22” by Dav Pilkey
3) “Dog Man and Cat Kid” by Dav Pilkey
4) “Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose” by Dav Pilkey
5) “Dog Man: Mothering Heights” by Dav Pilkey
6) “Baby-Sitters Club: Stacey’s Mistake” by Ellen T. Crenshaw
7) “Baby-Sitters Little Sister: Karen’s Grandmothers” by DK Yingst
8) “Baby-Sitters Club: Claudia and the Bad Joke” by Arley Nopra
9) “Drama” by Raina Telgemaier
10) “Baby-Sitters Club: Karen’s Sleepover” by Katy Farina
Adults top 10 most popular books
1) “James: A Novel” by Percival Everett
2) “The Blue Hour: A Novel” by Paula Hawkins
3) “Three Days in June” by Anne Tyler
4) “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore
5) “The Grey Wolf” by Louise Penny
6) “My Friends: A Novel” by Fredrik Backman
7) “Tell Me Everything: A Novel” by Elizabeth Strout
8) “The Waiting” by Michael Connelly
9) “Broken Country: A Novel” by Clare Leslie Hall
10) “Sandwich: A Novel” by Catherine Newman
All of these books are available to be checked out at the Winchester Public Library. Winchester News would like to thank both Nicole Langley and Tony Corsentino for their help with this story.
Nell Escobar Coakley has been a journalist for more than 30 years. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Gotta Know Medford and editor of Winchester News. She can be reached at editor@winchesternews.org.
