In this month’s newsletter we reveal Boulder Public Library’s most popular books of 2024, we encourage you to make a year-end gift to support your library, we welcome a new member to our board of directors, we promote our merch as a great holiday gift for library lovers, we get excited for this year’s Winter Reading Challenge, we invite you to vote on a new name for the cafe at Boulder Main and we catch you up on all the library news you may have missed. View the full December newsletter here!
Following are the top 10 books in each category. Click on each link to see the full top 20 lists.
Top Adult Fiction 2024 (print circulation)
- The Women, by Kristin Hannah
- James, by Percival Everett
- Funny Story, by Emily Henry
- Table for Two: Fictions, by Amor Towles
- The Hunter, by Tana French
- The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon
- Three-Inch Teeth, by C.J. Box
- Lost Birds, by Anne Hillerman
- Eruption, by Michael Chrichton and James Patterson
- Sandwich, by Catherine Newman
Top Overdrive Titles 2024 (digital circulation)
- James, by Percival Everett
- The Women, by Kristin Hannah
- Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
- Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
- Funny Story, by Emily Henry
- Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
- Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros
- The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore
Top Adult Nonfiction 2024 (print circulation)
- An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, by Erik Larson
- Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, by Liz Cheney
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt
- A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, by Kevin Fedarko
- The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Exremism, by Tim Alberta
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan
- How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, by David Brooks
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides
- Supercommunications: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, by Charles Duhigg
Top Kids Titles 2024 (print circulation)
- Winter Turning: The Graphic Novel, by Tui Sutherland
- The Scarlet Shedder, by Dav Pilkey (Dog Man series, vol. 12)
- Big Nate: This Means War!, by Lincoln Peirce
- Influencers, by Dav Pilkey (Cat Kid Comic Club series, vol. 5)
- Claudia and the Bad Joke, by Ann M. Martin (Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel series, vol. 15)
- Legend of the Star Dragon, by Tracey West (Dragon Masters series, vol. 25)
- Construction Site: Taking Flight!, by Sherri Duskey Rinker
- Waverider, by Kazu Kibuishi (Amulet series, vol. 9)
- Together Forever, by Kristen Gudsnuk, (Making Friends series, vol. 4)
- The Lost Library, by Rebecca Stead
