Most Checked Out Titles in 2025!

Curious about what everyone can’t stop checking out at the Grundy Library? We’re excited to share the number 1 most-checked-out items across our most popular categories!

From page-turning fictions and fun cookbooks to favorite movies and beloved children’s books, our top check-out titles are just among many thousands of items that our library community loves reading, learning, and discovering together.

Adult Fiction 

The Inmate by Freida McFadden 

Adult Nonfiction 

Three-way tie: 

What to Cook When you Don’t Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynne Jackson 

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk 

Audiobook 

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig 

Graphic Novel 

Chainsaw Man 7 by Tatsuki Fujimoto 

DVD 

Wicked 

Music 

Wicked (CD soundtrack)

Board Book 

Make Tracks (Trains) by Johnny Dyrander 

Easy Reader 

A Big Guy Took My Ball! by Mo Willems 

Easy Fiction 

Pirate Pups by Ursula Ziegler Sullivan 

Juvenile Graphic Novel 

Dog Man Fetch-22 by Dav Pilkey

Juvenile Fiction 

The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

Teen Fiction 

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

Teen Nonfiction 

The Driving Book for Teens: A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Smart, Safe, and Skilled Driver by Maureen Stiles 

Teen Graphic Novel 

Jujutsu Kaisen 25 by Gege Akutami

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