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As we move to a new year, it is time to look back on the past year and analyze our circulation data from 2024. The following lists are, in ranked order, the most popular books of the year based on number of checkouts from our circulation records.
This year, nine out of the overall top ten most circulated books were works of fiction, making the overall top ten list almost (but not quite) the same as the top ten list for new fiction. As in previous years, we also present our top ten lists for fiction, nonfiction and mysteries/thrillers.
The Lists:
Overall:
- Table for Two: Fictions, by Amor Towles (also available as audio and ebook)
- James: a Novel, by Percival Everett (also available as ebook)
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
- Long Island: a Novel, by Colm Tóibín (also available as ebook)
- The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray (also available as ebook)
- The Women, by Kristin Hannah (also available as ebook)
- North Woods: a Novel, by Daniel Mason (also available as ebook)
- Creation Lake: a Novel, by Rachel Kushner (also available as audio and ebook)
- An Unfinished Love Story: a Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kerns Goodwin (also available as ebook)
- The Paris Novel, by Ruth Reichl (also available as ebook)
Fiction:
- Table for Two: Fictions, by Amor Towles (also available as audio and ebook)
- James: a Novel, by Percival Everett (also available as ebook)
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
- Long Island: a Novel, by Colm Tóibín (also available as ebook)
- The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray (also available as ebook)
- The Women, by Kristin Hannah (also available as ebook)
- North Woods: a Novel, by Daniel Mason (also available as ebook)
- Creation Lake: a Novel, by Rachel Kushner (also available as audio and ebook)
- The Paris Novel, by Ruth Reichl (also available as ebook)
- Absolution, by Alice McDermott (also available as audio and ebook)
Nonfiction:
- An Unfinished Love Story: a Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kerns Goodwin (also available as ebook)
- The Demon of Unrest: a Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, by Erik Larson (also available as audio and ebook)
- Oath and Honor: a Memoir and a Warning, by Liz Cheney (also available as ebook)
- Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, by Mary Beard (also available as ebook)
- Get the Picture: a Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Friends Who Taught Me How to See, by Bianca Bosker (also available as ebook)
- Chasing Beauty: the Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Natalie Dykstra (also available as ebook)
- The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, by Tim Alberta (also available as ebook)
- The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press, by Calvin Trillin (also available as ebook)
- I Heard Her Call My Name: a Memoir of Transition, by Lucy Sante (also available as ebook)
- Burn Book: a Tech Love Story, by Kara Swisher (also available as ebook)
Mysteries and Thrillers:
- Shanghai: a Novel, by Joseph Kanon (also available as ebook)
- A Refiner's Fire, by Donna Leon (also available as ebook)
- The Hunter, by Tana French (also available as ebook)
- The Exchange: After the Firm, by John Grisham
- The Comfort of Ghosts, by Jacqueline Winspear (also available as ebook)
- Hero, by Thomas Perry (also available as ebook)
- First Lie Wins, by Ashley Elston (also available as ebook)
- Death of a Spy, by M.C. Beaton with R.W. Green (also available as ebook)
- Farewell, Amethystine, by Walter Mosely (also available as ebook)
- Unnatural Death, by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
As of the end of November, our most popular book of the year was Table for Two, our copies of which were circulated 53 times. While, by itself, this looks like a lot, when contextualized within our library's overall circulation, which over the same period was 44,965, we see how diverse our membership's reading habits are.
