Most-borrowed authors at the Seattle Public Library

How many times one city borrowed each writer last year, every book credited to them added together.

Source Seattle Public Library (raw data, JSON), as of 31 December 2025 · checkouts (2025)

Checkouts by Title open data: 2025 checkouts of every print, ebook and audiobook copy credited to a writer; catalogue name variants merged, uncredited and corporate credits dropped

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Rank	Entry	checkouts (2025)
#1	Sarah J. Maas	53,046
#2	Rebecca Yarros	43,041
#3	Freida McFadden	35,259
#4	Dav Pilkey	31,063
#5	Jeff Kinney	26,835
#6	Kristin Hannah	24,055
#7	James Patterson	23,707
#8	Agatha Christie	23,431
#9	Stephen King	23,423
#10	Suzanne Collins	22,490
#11	Mo Willems	20,621
#12	Brandon Sanderson	20,258
#13	Martha Wells	18,714
#14	Lincoln Peirce	18,662
#15	Emily Henry	18,607
#16	Michael Connelly	17,042
#17	Tui T. Sutherland	16,839
#18	Abby Jimenez	16,299
#19	Rick Riordan	15,835
#20	Erin Hunter	15,067
#21	Louise Penny	14,672
#22	R. F. Kuang	14,266
#23	David Baldacci	14,181
#24	Taylor Jenkins Reid	14,135
#25	J. K. Rowling	13,911
#26	Gertrude Chandler Warner	13,800
#27	Ali Hazelwood	13,503
#28	Ann Patchett	13,339
#29	Percival Everett	13,314
#30	Karin Slaughter	13,185
#31	Tracey West	12,880
#32	Jane Austen	12,794
#33	TJ Klune	12,690
#34	Robin Wall Kimmerer	12,262
#35	Pierce Brown	12,257
#36	Barbara Kingsolver	12,206
#37	Jennifer L. Armentrout	11,990
#38	Lee Child	11,977
#39	Sally Rooney	11,955
#40	T. Kingfisher	11,887
#41	Octavia E. Butler	11,824
#42	Mary Pope Osborne	11,777
#43	Elin Hilderbrand	11,403
#44	John Grisham	11,237
#45	Jim Davis	11,181
#46	Mick Herron	11,162
#47	Nora Roberts	10,507
#48	Lucy Foley	10,438
#49	Richard Osman	10,387
#50	Lisa Jewell	10,330
#51	Ursula K. Le Guin	10,262
#52	Jeneva Rose	9,995
#53	J.R.R. Tolkien	9,963
#54	Liz Moore	9,866
#55	Margaret Atwood	9,817
#56	Fredrik Backman	9,760
#57	Tessa Bailey	9,691
#58	Kate Quinn	9,380
#59	Christina Lauren	9,342
#60	Abraham Verghese	9,328
#61	Alison Espach	9,051
#62	V. E. Schwab	9,009
#63	Matt Haig	8,993
#64	Miranda July	8,957
#65	Katee Robert	8,907
#66	Lauren Tarshis	8,821
#67	Raina Telgemeier	8,805
#68	Terry Pratchett	8,799
#69	Janet Evanovich	8,753
#70	Liane Moriarty	8,725
#71	Hannah Nicole Maehrer	8,482
#72	Stuart Gibbs	8,185
#73	James S. A. Corey	8,164
#74	Hugh Howey	8,091
#75	J. A. Jance	7,978
#76	Anthony Horowitz	7,898
#77	James Dean	7,814
#78	Malcolm Gladwell	7,812
#79	Ilona Andrews	7,724
#80	John Green	7,575
#81	Andy Weir	7,470
#82	Madeline Miller	7,249
#83	Charlotte McConaghy	7,237
#84	Caroline Peckham	7,170
#85	Mel Robbins	7,101
#86	Anne Tyler	7,096
#87	Sarah Wynn-Williams	7,041
#88	Ocean Vuong	6,876
#89	Cixin Liu	6,829
#90	Shelby Van Pelt	6,829
#91	Haruki Murakami	6,761
#92	Alexander McCall Smith	6,747
#93	Rick Steves	6,665
#94	Elena Ferrante	6,654
#95	Dan Gutman	6,593
#96	Yuval Noah Harari	6,567
#97	Colleen Hoover	6,562
#98	Katherine Center	6,553
#99	Jodi Picoult	6,526
#100	Samantha Harvey	6,498

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