Most borrowed titles of 2024

Published on 07 January 2025

We’ve rounded up the Top 5 most borrowed titles from our collections in 2024.

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Adult 

Top 5 Adult Fiction                         

1. Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and The Rachel incident by Caroline  O'Donoghue
2. Chai time at Cinnamon Gardens : a novel by Shankari Chandran
3. Green dot by Madeleine Gray
4. The bee sting by Paul Murray
5. Small things like these by Claire Keegan

Top 5 Read Now                              

1. Alibi by Lynda La Plante
2. The exchange by John Grisham
3. The secret by Lee Child
4. The search party by Hannah Richell
5. Foul play by Fiona McIntosh

Top 5 Adult Graphic Novels        

1. The secret to superhuman strength by Alison Bechdel
2. American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
3. Home to stay!: the complete Ray Bradbury EC stories by Ray Bradbury
4. Eventually everything connects: eight essays on uncertainty by Sarah Firth
5. Frank Herbert's Dune. Book 1 : the graphic novel adapted by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Top 5 Adult Non-Fiction               

1. Recipe Tin Eats dinner : 150+ recipes from Australia's favourite cook by Nagi Maehashi and Killing for country : a family story by David Marr
2. Around the table : delicious food for everyday by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
3. Atomic habits: tiny changes, remarkable results: an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones by James Clear
4. Stolen focus: why you can't pay attention by Johann Hari and 5 ingredients Mediterranean by Jamie Oliver and Bright shining: how grace changes everything by Julia Baird
5. Ottolenghi simple by Yotam Ottolenghi; with Tara Wigley and Esme Howarth and Outlive: the science & art of longevity by Dr Peter Attia with Bill Gifford                                    

Top 5 Biographies                           

1. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
2. Spare by Prince Harry
3. I'm glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy
4. Did I ever tell you this?: a memoir by Sam Neill
5. In bad faith by Dassi Erlich with Ellen Whinnett     

Young Adult

Top 5 Young Adult                          

1. The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins
2. Five survive by Holly Jackson
3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins and A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas
4. Northern lights by Philip Pullman and A good girl's guide to murder by Holly Jackson
5. Throne of glass by Sarah J. Maas 

Junior 

Top 5 Junior Fiction                        

1. Tom Gates extra special treats (...not) by Liz Pichon 
2. Toy time! By Anh Do
3. The getaway by Jeff Kinney
4. Weird wedding! by Anh Do
5. Forever weird! by Anh Do

Top 5 Junior Graphic Novels                      

1. Cat of death! by Aaron Blabey
2. The bad guys by Aaron Blabey
3. Claudia and mean Janine by Raina Telgemeier
4. Asterix and the magic carpet by Goscinny and Uderzo and Dirt by sea by Michael Wagner
5. Alien vs bad guys by Aaron Blabey

Top 5 Picture Books                       

1. Mog's birthday by Judith Kerr
2. The speedy sloth by Rebecca Young
3. The day a Triceratops turned up by Mica Félix
4. My mummy by Roger Hargreaves
5. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake by Hazel Edwards

Top 5 Junior Non-fiction               

1. Peep inside how a plane works by Lara Bryan
2. Minecraft bite-size builds: over 20 exciting mini-projects by Thomas McBrien
3. See inside oceans by Emily Bone 
4. Minecraft: the ultimate guide to survival mode by Daniel Lipscombe
5. Look inside the world of bees by Emily Bone

DVDs

Top 5 Adult DVDs                            

1. Oppenheimer   
2. Barbie  
3. Dune    
4. Tar and Wonka 
5. Asteroid City

Top 5 Junior DVDs                           

1. Bluey. Vol. 2, Horsey ride and other stories           
2. Mary Poppins returns and Bluey. Vol. 9, Queens and other stories  
3. Bluey. Vol. 5, Camping other stories and Bluey. Vol. 10, Sleepytime and other stories         
4. Bluey. Vol. 11, Muffin cone and other stories       
5. PAW Patrol. Jet to the rescue