QPL locations.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nShelby Van Pelt\u2019s Remarkably Bright Creatures,\u00a0which explores a friendship between an octopus and a widow who cleans the aquarium where he lives, was the fourth-most checked out title in Queens this year, while R.F. Kuang\u2019s alternative history novel Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators\u2019 Revolution\u00a0claimed fifth place in the newly published list.<\/p>\n
Kuang featured twice more in the top ten with\u00a0The Poppy War\u00a0in seventh and\u00a0Yellowface\u00a0in ninth. Barbara Kingslover\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel\u00a0Demon Copperhead\u00a0(6th), Jeneva Rose\u2019s crime thriller\u00a0The Perfect Divorce\u00a0(8th) and Freida McFadden\u2019s revenge thriller\u00a0The Tenant\u00a0(10th) rounded out the top ten in Queens.<\/p>\n
James, Percival Everett\u2019s reimagining of the iconic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was the most checked out title across the city\u2019s three public library systems in 2025, followed by Liz Woods\u2019 drama The God of the Woods\u00a0in second and Yarros\u2019s\u00a0Onyx Storm\u00a0in third.<\/p>\n
Queens Public Library Chief Librarian Nick Buron said it was an \u201cexciting\u201d development to see women dominating the top-circulating titles in the QPL network.\n<\/p>\n
Buron also credited social media and other new trends with driving an increased connection between readers and \u201cnew voices.\u201d He said checkout data also reflected a growing enthusiasm among readers to explore an author\u2019s body of work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn recent years, traditional bestsellers and established authors have been losing their market share as newer voices increasingly connect with readers through social media,\u201d Buron said in a statement. \u201cDemon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver saw a significant surge following its Pulitzer Prize win, while platforms like BookTok continue to drive strong demand for authors such as Rebecca Yarros, R.F. Kuang, Freida McFadden, and Jeneva Rose.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur top checkouts reflect readers\u2019 enthusiasm for both popular fiction genres and critically acclaimed literary works, and we\u2019re also seeing a clear trend of readers discovering an author and then diving into their full body of work, particularly with McFadden, Yarros, and Kuang.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the\u00a0Dog Man and Diary of a Wimpy Kid\u00a0series dominated the most checked out children\u2019s books in Queens in 2025, with\u00a0Dog Man featuring in six of the ten most checked out children\u2019s titles and\u00a0Diary of a Wimpy Kid\u00a0featuring in the remaining four.<\/p>\n
Jeff Kinney\u2019s\u00a0Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End\u00a0was the most checked out children\u2019s title in Queens, followed by Dav Pilkey\u2019s\u00a0Dog Man: Big Jim Begins\u00a0in second.<\/p>\n
Fantasy author Sarah J. Maas dominated in the young adult section, claiming each of the top four most checked out titles, including\u00a0A Court of Mist and Fury\u00a0in first. Maas boasted five titles in the top ten, followed closely by\u00a0Hunger Games\u00a0author Suzanne Collins with four. Jenny Han was the only other author to place in the top ten in Queens with The Summer I Turned Pretty,\u00a0which is now a hugely popular Amazon series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main entrance to QPL\u2019s Steinway location. Photo via QPL. Fantasy author Rebecca Yarros dominated adult reading lists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2878,39509,19709,39510,9,24,63,37187,122,124,123,25799,39511],"class_list":["post-79482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-books","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid","tag-library","tag-most-checked-out-titles","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-qpl","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-public-library","tag-rebecca-yarros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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