2024 Top Titles in UK Public Libraries

The most popular books in UK Public Libraries in 2024, based on the thousands of libraries using Syndetics Unbound. Learn more about Syndetics Unbound’s Top Titles of 2024. See https://proquest.syndetics.com/news/2025/01/24/2024-top-titles-australia-canada-uk-and-newzealand/
Updated March 24, 2025
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The Last Devil to Die
Richard Osman
Paper Book
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN ---------- 'The rightful king of crime' i News 'Deeply moving... some of his best writing yet' Telegraph ...
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang
Paper Book
The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* *Fiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards* 'Addictive' Grazia 'Hugely entertaining' Observer<...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Paper Book
THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER- OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned...
We Solve Murders
Richard Osman
Paper Book
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB A brand new series. An iconic new detective team. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . . ----- Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of...
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
Paper Book
The first instalment of the GLOBAL PHENOMENON and TikTok sensation, from multi-million selling and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas Maas has established herself as a fantasy fiction titan - Time Harry Potter magic, Taylor Swift...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Gabrielle Zevin
Paper Book
THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulted back to...
You Are Here
David Nicholls
Paper Book
One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday TimesA book of the year pick in the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Mail on Sunday, GQ, Good Housekeeping, NetGalley and Red ''David Nicholls''s most...
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Paper Book
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof bunker in the woods. Meanwhile their teenage daughter is veering off the rails, in thrall to a toxic...
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
Paper Book
DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT: 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' The Sun 'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very much are...
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Paper Book
THE FUNNY AND INSPIRING, MULTI-AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD, now a major Apple TV+ series starring Brie Larson A Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, New York Times, Good House Keeping, Woman & Home, Stylist, TLS Oprah...
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES READERS BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
J. K. Rowling
Paper Book
Galloping gargoyles ... 2022 is the silver anniversary of J.K. Rowling's magical classic Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone! The boy wizard Harry Potter has been casting a spell over young readers and their families ever since 1997. Now the first book in this...
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
Paper Book
Don't miss IT STARTS WITH US, the sequel to IT ENDS WITH US! 'A brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long after you've finished it' Anna Todd, author of the After <...
Politics on the Edge
Rory Stewart
Paper Book
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament, by the former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics 'The most exceptional political memoir I've...
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' GUARDIAN 'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMES Life on our...
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be...
The Running Grave
Robert Galbraith
Paper Book
'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 ________ Private Detective Cormoran Strike is...
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson
Paper Book
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DISCOVER THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY 'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon...
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
Asako Yuzuki
Paper Book
WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025 THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK 'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'I have been glued...
One Day
David Nicholls
Paper Book
***Out now: David Nicholls's new novel YOU ARE HERE*** THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES 'A wonderful, wonderful book' THE TIMES 'Perfect' NEW YORK TIMES 'A...

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