These Were The Most Borrowed Books Of 2024 Across All NYC Public Libraries

Readers in New York are privy to 200+ community-based library and literacy locations across the five boroughs. Through its three independent systems (New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library), New Yorkers are granted access to books, periodicals, electronic resources, mobile technology and non-print materials at no cost.

So let’s see what New Yorkers were reading this year, including physical books, e-books and audio books. And let’s just say, family sagas, mysteries, and romances dominated…

Most borrowed books 2024: Citywide

1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
2. Happy Place by Emily Henry
3. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
5. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
6. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
7. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
9. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
10. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Most borrowed books 2024: Manhattan

1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
3. The Women by Kristin Hannah
4. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
5. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
6. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
7. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
8. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
9. James by Percival Everett
10. Good Material by Dolly Alderton

Most borrowed books 2024: Brooklyn

1. Happy Place by Emily Henry
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
3. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
4. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
5. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
6. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
7. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
8. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
9. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
10. The Guest by Emma Cline

Most borrowed books 2024: The Bronx

1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
3. The Women by Kristin Hannah
4. Happy Place by Emily Henry
5. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
6. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
7. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
8. The Exchange: After the Firm by John Grisham
9. Crosshairs by James Patterson and James O. Born
10. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Most borrowed books 2024: Queens

1. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
3. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
5. Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang
6. The Teacher by Freida McFadden
7. Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
8. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
9. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
10. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover

Most borrowed books 2024: Staten Island

1. The Women by Kristin Hannah
2. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
3. Upside Down by Danielle Steele
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
5. The Exchange: After the Firm by John Grisham (tied with 6th)
6. Happy Place by Emily Henry (tied with 5th)
7. Never Too Late by Danielle Steele
8. The Teacher by Frieda McFadden
9. The Coworker by Freida McFadden (tied with 10th)
10. Never Lie by Freida McFadden (tied with 9th)