Top Syndetics Unbound Titles of 2024

Syndetics Unbound’s year-end “Top Titles” list for all of 2024!

We’ve compiled the most popular books in public libraries around the world, drawing on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound to add covers, recommendations, summaries, series information and other enhancements to their library catalogs.

This post covers the United States. Soon we’ll be releasing the data for Australia, Canada and the UK.

First, here’s a “bar chart race” showing the top books changing over the year. You can also see and share the visualization over on Flourish.

Here are the top titles for the whole year:

And here is a complete list of the top 100 books in US public libraries in 2024.

1. The Women by Kristin Hannah
2. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
4. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
5. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
7. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
8. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
9. Funny Story by Emily Henry
10. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
11. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
12. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
13. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
14. James by Percival Everett
15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
16. The Teacher by Freida McFadden
17. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
18. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
19. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
20. A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci
21. Camino Ghosts by John Grisham
22. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
23. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
24. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
25. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
26. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
27. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
28. The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden
29. Eruption by Michael Crichton
30. Verity by Colleen Hoover
31. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
32. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
33. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
34. Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand
35. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
36. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
37. Never Lie by Freida McFadden
38. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
39. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
40. Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
41. The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden
42. By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
43. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
44. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
45. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
46. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
47. Dune by Frank Herbert
48. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
49. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
50. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
51. Happy Place by Emily Henry
52. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
53. House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
54. Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
55. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
56. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
57. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
58. The Inmate by Freida McFadden
59. Three-Inch Teeth by C. J. Box
60. The Fury by Alex Michaelides
61. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
62. The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
63. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
64. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
65. The Exchange: After The Firm by John Grisham
66. The Waiting by Michael Connelly
67. You Like It Darker: Stories by Stephen King
68. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder by Dav Pilkey
69. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
70. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
71. The Coworker by Freida McFadden
72. The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
73. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
74. Mind Games by Nora Roberts
75. The 24th Hour by James Patterson
76. Think Twice by Harlan Coben
77. The Hunter by Tana French
78. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
79. The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
80. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
81. The #1 Lawyer by James Patterson
82. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
83. Sandwich by Catherine Newman
84. One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
85. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
86. Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
87. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
88. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
89. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
90. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
91. Toxic Prey by John Sandford
92. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
93. In Too Deep by Lee Child
94. Inheritance by Nora Roberts
95. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
96. Holmes, Marple, and Poe by James Patterson
97. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
98. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
99. 1984 by George Orwell
100. Table for Two by Amor Towles

How Do We Know?

This data was collected by Syndetics Unbound. The search data is fully anonymized the day it is collected.