Top Books in 2025
What were the most downloaded Press publications for 2025? We were surprised and delighted to find out.
You may have occasionally wondered, like ourselves, what are the most popular publications in the University of Warwick Press’ (UWP) back-catalogue? As the download statistics aren’t currently publicly available, it’s perhaps been more of a mystery than it could be. Which is just one of the reasons why we are delighted today to reveal to you all which were the most popular books on UWP in the past year (2025). The information below is taken from how many times the publication files were downloaded by readers, with those visitors who only accessed a book’s landing (abstract) page excluded from these rankings.
- Andrea G. Klaus (2019) Stolpersteine: German in 10 minutes a day
- Matthew Whitby et al., (2024) Serious Games Cookbook: A beginner's guide to using and designing serious games
- Joanna Fleming et al., (2022) Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on Hospices (ICoH): Senior Management Cohort and Grey Evidence Report
- Felicity Boardman (2024) Qualitative Remote Data Collection Guidance 2024
- Karen Brandon et al., (2017) Understanding Happiness: A CAGE Policy Report
Congratulations to Andrea G Klaus for their chart topping work – which by raw metrics alone was by and far the winner for 2025. Looking at the selection of books atop our list, it is wonderful to identify the diversity of topics and publication dates: demonstrating our reader communities’ varied interests and how texts continue to resonate with them over time. Given the UWP’s core goals to share knowledge globally, understanding more about what has been popular with them is valuable information for us. We hope each of the authors appearing in our chart will be delighted by the inclusion of their work in our league table too.
Interestingly, overall downloads of all materials published in our monographs, working papers, reports and other texts section of the Press have increased this past year.[1] When compared to download numbers for 2024, we saw a dramatic increase of 72% in downloads – which is an exciting escalation of interest. We can only hope that our efforts to promote the Press as a destination for scholarship and thought continues to draw in new readers and author alike.
Where In The World
We were also pleased to take a note of where our readers are coming from globally.[2] These figures are based on visits to the Press site in 2025, rather than downloads alone, so include those browsing our pages as well as those actively reading our published works. As you can see the top 5 countries is skewed heavily to the UK and the US currently, which is broadly in keeping with our expectations.
- United Kingdom (44.1%)
- United States (21.8%)
- Türkiye (4.5%)
- Germany (4.4%)
- China (3.7%)
Contact
For more information on the Press, our contents and activities – please contact Dr Gareth J Johnson.
Endnotes
[1] The metrics for the journals are a separate count, so visit their individual sites to find out more.
[2] Again, for the books, working papers, reports and other texts, not including the journals and their articles.
