Top 10 Borrowed Titles of 2025

Let’s wrap up a great year of reading with some of our top 10 Borrowed Lists along with our staff favourites. Explore these lists to find out if any of your favourites made it into the library’s most popular titles and materials for 2025. Our staff have added their most anticipated reads for 2026, and you can add them to your TBR now!

Top 10 Borrowed Fiction

  1. The Waiting by Michael Connelly
  2. The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
  3. To Die For by David Baldacci
  4. Funny Story by Emily Henry
  5. The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
  6. In Too Deep by Lee Child & Andrew Child
  7. The Women by Kristin Hannah
  8. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
  9. Nightshade by Michael Connelly
  10. The Mirror by Nora Roberts

Top 10 Borrowed Non Fiction

  1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
  2. The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole
  3. Spare by Prince Harry
  4. Framed by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey
  5. Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  6. Cher The Memoir
  7. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  8. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  9. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
  10. Patriot by Alexei Navalny

Top 10 Borrowed Young Adult

  1. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
  2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  3. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
  4. Spy Family Vol 1. by Tatsuya Endo
  5. Divergent by Veronica Roth
  6. Caraval by Stephanie Garber
  7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  8. The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
  9. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
  10. Betting on You by Lynn Painter

Tania’a Pick – Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ashley’s Pick – Silver Elite by Dani Francis
Emma’s Pick – Wild Card by Elsie Silver
Lucy’s Pick – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Shannon’s Pick – Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Kate’s Pick – Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
Sarah’s Pick – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Marianna’s Pick – Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham
Teresa’s Pick – The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf by Timothy Taylor
Laura’s Pick – The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto 
Brooke’s Pick – The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk 
Alannah’s Pick – Marriage of Convenience Vol. 1 by Antstudio 

Tania’a Pick – Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowel 
Ashley’s Pick –Broken Dove by Dani Francis 
Emma’s Pick – A Stage Set for Villains by Shannon J Spann  
Lucy’s Pick – The Astral Library by Kate Quinn 
Shannon’s Pick – Love Song by Elle Kennedy 
Kate’s Pick – Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher 
Sarah’s Pick – A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett 
Marianna’s Pick – Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier  
Teresa’s Pick – Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies by Lindsay Wong 
Laura’s Pick – Amari and the Metalwork Menace by B. B. Alston 
Brooke’s Pick – Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston
Alannah’s Pick – Kill the Villainess Vol. 5 by Haegi