What Were The Most Popular Books In Tewksbury In 2020?

TEWKSBURY, MA — Tewksbury loves "Where the Crawdads Sing": The Delia Owens novel topped the list of the library's most-checked out books in 2020, with more than 40 more checkouts than the second most popular book.

Robert Hayes of Tewksbury Public Library shared lists of the most popular adult, juvenile and young adult books at the library last year. Here are the top ten in each category:

Adult:

1. Where the crawdads sing / Owens, Delia, 95 checkouts and renewals
2. Firefly Lane / Hannah, Kristin. 56
3. Educated: a memoir / Westover, Tara, 55
4. What happens in paradise: a novel / Hilderbrand, Elin, 46
5. Summer of '69 / Hilderbrand, Elin, 45
6. Treason / Woods, Stuart, 45
7. When you see me: a novel / Gardner, Lisa, 44
8. The Dutch house: a novel / Patchett, Ann, 43
9. The giver of stars / Moyes, Jojo, 41
10. Before we were yours: a novel / Wingate, Lisa, 40

Juvenile:

1. Dog Man: a tale of two kitties / Pilkey, Dav, 35 checkouts and renewals
2. Dog Man: for whom the ball rolls / Pilkey, Dav, 32
3. Dog Man: brawl of the wild / Pilkey, Dav, 28
4. Pokémon adventures. Kusaka, Hidenori. 27
5. Bob books. Maslen, Bobby Lynn. 26
6. Hooked on phonics: learn to read. 26
7. New kid / Craft, Jerry, 26
8. Dog man: fetch-22 / Pilkey, Dav, 25
9. Dog man: Lord of the fleas / Pilkey, Dav, 24
10. Amulet. Kibuishi, Kazu, 23

Young Adult:

1. Amulet. Kibuishi, Kazu, 30 checkouts and renewals
2. Dragon Ball Z. Toriyama, Akira, 27
3. The outsiders / Hinton, S. E. 26
4. To all the boys I've loved before / Han, Jenny, 22
5. Giant days. Allison, John, 16
6. Case closed. Aoyama, Gōshō. 15
7. Dragon Ball. Toriyama, Akira, 15
8. The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Collins, Suzanne, 15
9. Divergent / Roth, Veronica. 14
10. The hate u give / Thomas, Angie 14

Christopher Huffaker can be reached at 412-265-8353 or chris.huffaker@patch.com.