The year is coming to an end, and that means it’s time to look back at the year’s reading data.
Libby, the library reading app that allows readers to source e-books, is revealing its top 10 titles of the year in terms of circulation. Featuring hot romantasy titles, historical fiction releases and overall bestsellers that rounded out 2024, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal Libby’s year-end list of the top 10 books of the year.
Kristin Hannah’s The Women, Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, Lisa Jewell’s None of This is True, Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses, Ashley Elston’s First Lie Wins, Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake, Emily Henry’s Funny Story, James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store and Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures round out the list of the top 10 titles of 2024 in terms of circulation.
Libby is the leading digital content platform for libraries and schools, connecting readers with their local library’s digital collections. Readers can sign up for the app with a valid library card number.
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Yarros appears twice on the list thanks to two 2023 romance fantasies, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, released in April and October of last year, respectively.
The majority of the books featured in the top 10 were also released in 2023 — with Funny Story, First Lie Wins and The Women all having come out in 2024. Remarkably Bright Creatures, originally published in May 2022, stands as the oldest title on the list.
Other stats include some major growth in e-book, audiobook and magazine checkouts from 2023 to 2024 — with total book checkouts increasing by 19% — and circulation of “Politics” titles increasing by 38%, while circulation of “Current Events” titles having increased by 161%.
In March, the winners of the inaugural Libby Book Awards were announced, as titles from across 17 different categories were selected by an “expert” panel of over 1700 librarians worldwide.
Among the winners were Yarros, who earned a nod in the fantasy category for Fourth Wing, and actor Elliot Page, who took home the memoir award for Pageboy. “We chose to shine a light on librarians because more than anyone, they understand the interests of their patrons,” Libby’s CMO Jen Leitman said in a statement.
“Librarians interact with library-goers day in and day out, and whether it’s providing advice on a genre or recommending a new title based on past interests, they’re seeing firsthand how their communities are interacting and reacting to these titles,” Leitman said. “Librarians are objective and completely trustworthy.”
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