Fondy Votes for Favorites of 2024

The Fond du Lac Public Library compiled a list of the physical books that were checked out the most by our patrons in 2024. From that list, we asked patrons to vote on what books were REALLY their favorites. These are the Fiction and Nonfiction books chosen by the community!

Updated January 8, 2025
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The women
Hannah, Kristin
Audiobook
The housemaid
McFadden, Freida
Paper Book
Over 2 Million Copies Sold and Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture Starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried! Don't miss the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller and addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that's burning...
The teacher
McFadden, Freida
Audiobook
Camino ghosts
Grisham, John
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Escape to Camino Island, where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise. Don't miss John Grisham's upcoming Framed, his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man!
Swan song
Hilderbrand, Elin
Ebook
The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move to the island, social mayhem--and a possible murder follow. Can Nantucket's best locals save the day, and their way of life? ...
Toxic prey
Sandford, John
Ebook
Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Gaia is dying. That, at least, is...
A calamity of souls
Baldacci, David
Ebook
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times ...
Look on the bright side
Higgins, Kristan
Ebook
From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life's detours. Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents', pop out...
Mind games
Roberts, Nora
Ebook
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Identity presents a suspenseful novel of tragedy and trauma, love and family, and the evil that awaits. Thea Fox is getting the life she always wanted. She's become a renowned videogame designer, a job that allows her to...
One perfect couple
Ware, Ruth
Ebook
Harkening to Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them--from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author who "is turning out to be as ingenious and...
The demon of unrest : a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War
Larson, Erik
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times). ...

973.711 Larson 2024

One by one
McFadden, Freida
Audiobook
Three-inch teeth
Box, C. J.
Ebook
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's...
The 24th hour
Patterson, James
Ebook
As enemies lurk in the shadows, "Tough-but-tender cop Lindsay Boxer" (People) leads the Women's Murder Club in the high-profile murder investigation of a billionaire San Francisco couple--will Cindy, Claire, Yuki, and Lindsay still be standing when the clock strikes midnight?​
The paradise problem
Lauren, Christina
Ebook
Christina Lauren, the instant New York Times bestselling and "reigning romance queens" (PopSugar), returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive...
A song to drown rivers
Liang, Ann
Ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK An October 2024 Indie Next Pick * An October 2024 LibraryReads Pick "Exquisite and devastating. It won't fail to...
Let us descend : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn
Ebook
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Instant New York Times Bestseller * Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more. "Nothing short of epic,...
Oath and honor : a memoir and a warning
Cheney, Liz
Ebook
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER: A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it....

328.73 Cheney Cheney 2023

The woman in me
Spears, Britney
Audiobook

782.4216 Spears, Britney Spears 2023

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Vance, J. D.
Paper Book
Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that...

305.562 Vance 2018

Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Grann, David
Other
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New...

970.3 Osage Grann 2017

Being Henry : the Fonz . . . and beyond
Winkler, Henry
Audiobook

791.45 Winkler Winkler 2023

You never know : a memoir
Selleck, Tom
Ebook
***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own...

791.45 Selleck Selleck 2024

The hunger habit : why we eat when we're not hungry and how to stop
Brewer, Judson
Ebook
A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety. Sometimes it feels as if there are as many ways to struggle with food as there are foods to eat. Craving, habit, emotions, boredom, stress...

616.8526 Brewer 2024

Counting the cost
Duggar, Jill
Ebook
For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and...

791.45 Duggar, Jill Duggar 2023

I'm glad my mom died
McCurdy, Jennette
Paper Book
* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating...

791.4502 McCurdy McCurdy 2022

Tired of winning : Donald Trump and the end of the Grand Old Party
Karl, Jonathan
Audiobook
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of 62 Books 'The Ezra Klein Show' Guests Recommended This Year, The New York Times Featured in Vanity Fair's Books to Read in November ...

973.933 Trump, Donald Karl 2023

Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
Perry, Matthew
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this "CANDID, DARKLY FUNNY...POIGNANT" memoir (The New York Times) ...

973.933 Trump, Donald Karl 2023

The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Brown, Daniel
Other
Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany--from the author of Facing the Mountain. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the...

797.123 Brown 2013


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