Rewind Your 2025 Favorites
Welcome to Hoopla’s year in review! It’s time to hit rewind on 2025 and celebrate the stories, songs, and shows that defined our year of entertainment.
This playful wrap-up highlights what patrons borrowed most in 2025—and what you may want to borrow now. It’s the perfect end-of-year snapshot for curious readers, movie lovers, and culture enthusiasts.
Top Borrowed Audiobooks of 2025
Audiobooks were Hoopla’s most-borrowed format in 2025—we’re so glad to have kept you company as you drove, walked, studied, exercised, and generally enjoyed your days. This year’s chart-toppers included Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins and read by Jefferson White.
This second prequel to the Hunger Games series opens on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, in which young Haymitch Abernathy will participate. Another of the top 5 most-borrowed audiobooks was The Tenant by Freida McFadden and read by Will Damron and Christine Helen Lakin.
McFadden’s book The Crash, read by Leslie Howard, was a top-borrowed audiobook in 2025, proving that this indie author is hot (read Hoopla’s Q&A with Freida McFadden here). Another in the 5 most popular borrows was Fourth Wing (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] by Rebecca Yarros.
This audiobook version is read by a full cast, making for an immersive listening experience. Rounding out the top 5 most-borrowed audiobooks on Hoopla for 2025 was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling and read by Jim Dale, proving that some classics never fade.
Most Borrowed eBooks
In 2025, Hoopla users gravitated toward personal development, with Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen, Better Small Talk by Patrick King, and The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel all making the list of most-borrowed ebooks.
The page-turning Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter thrilled Hoopla users in 2025.
Finally, the wizarding world made a second appearance on our most popular of 2025 list with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling—proof that great stories transcend format.
Most Borrowed Comics
Comic fans showed big love for the Invincible series, with Invincible Compendium One by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and Invincible Compendium Two by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley making our most-borrowed list. Raina Telgemeier’s Smile: A Graphic Novel, a sweetly funny memoir, was another most-borrowed comic.
An old-school hero with a new adventure, Absolute Batman Vol. 1: The Zoo by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Gabriel Walta took its place in the top 5. Two of the other most-borrowed comics on Hoopla this year featured now-classic middle grade characters: Dog Man by Dav Pilkey and Big Nate: Attack of the Cheez Funk Breath by Lincoln Peirce.
Most Borrowed Movies
Hoopla’s most-borrowed films of 2025 list includes a documentary about a story that’s been everywhere this year. Wicked: The Real Story (2024), directed by Simon Hanning, is a documentary about the stage production of the beloved musical (author Gregory Maguire is featured!).
Another most-borrowed movie was Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024), directed by Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger—not a documentary, but a thrilling based-on-a-true-story film about a boy who gets (you guessed it) lost on a mountain in Maine.
Mo Willems’s 2010 animation, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!, found its place among 2025’s most-borrowed movies, as did the very romantic Someone Like You (2023), directed by Tyler Russell. The always-funny White Chicks (2004), directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, rounded out 2025’s list of the most popular movie borrows on Hoopla. Because sometimes you just need a laugh.
Most Borrowed TV Shows of 2025
A most-borrowed TV show was Interview with the Vampire Season 2, which added to the twists and intrigue of the story Anne Rice created. The rest of the list is filled with cozy mysteries, which are just as perfect on a lazy summer afternoon as they are on a cold and snowy evening. My Life Is Murder (Seasons 1, 3, 4), featuring fan favorite Lucy Lawless.
Brokenwood Mysteries Season gave Hoopla users something to solve, as did Death in Paradise Season 1. Doc Martin Season 10 was another of the 5 most-borrowed TV shows on Hoopla for 2025. There’s no mystery that Hoopla users enjoy a good whodunit!
Most Borrowed Music
If you’ve followed pop culture at all this year, you might be able to predict three of the most-borrowed music albums on Hoopla in 2025. KPop Demon Hunters [Soundtrack from the Netflix Film], with the KPop Demon Hunters cast, was as popular as the movie itself.
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is in the top 5 most-borrowed (of course!), and Wicked: The Soundtrack, featuring the Wicked movie cast, was too.
Speaking of cast recordings, Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) was another of the 5 most-borrowed albums, and Chappell Roan continued her meteoric rise with The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess taking a spot. Guess we were all belting out the tunes in 2025!
Most Borrowed BingePasses
We’re thrilled that more of you are discovering the joys of a Hoopla BingePass, which offers seven days of unlimited viewing with just one borrow. They’re getting more popular every year.
The Hallmark+ BingePass was extremely popular, offering all the same movies and reality series that are available to subscribers of the beloved channel. Another popular BingePass was The Great Courses BingePass, filled with courses on hundreds of topics taught by some of the world’s greatest professors.
The popularity of the Hoopla Magazines BingePass indicates that Hoopla users appreciate the opportunity to read hundreds of titles without a subscription.
The other two of the top 5 BingePasses are both puzzling—but that doesn’t mean we can’t understand their popularity! It means that the Puzzmo BingePass and the Puzzle Palace BingePass had lots and lots of fans. We totally get it—puzzles and word games are awesome.
Best Borrows of 2025 According to Hoopla
We couldn’t close out the year without sharing the titles Hoopla’s staff enjoyed most. Check out the video below to learn about what the Hoopla team has been borrowing throughout 2025.
What Were Your 2025 Greatest Hits?
Okay, Hoopla users—how many of your favorite titles are on our year-end round up of the top five most-borrowed lists? Borrow now to revisit your faves and find some new ones. We’re looking forward to 2026 and a whole new year of sharing and discovering favorites with you.
And that’s a wrap – we’ll see you in 2026!
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