It's that time of the year again, Boroondara! Here are the hottest 100 adult fiction titles borrowed from our collection in 2024 by you. You have voted with your membership cards!
The year 2024 was filled with the most ‘first time’ (to make the list) titles than ever, with almost a third of the list featuring authors’ first appearance in the list. That said, Nineteen eighty-four continues to make the list year on year.
It seems Jane Harper has had a quiet year with only one entry making the list, while Colleen Hoover triumphed with four entries – could Hoover be the new Harper?
It's also wonderful to see a growing number of Indigenous books and culturally diverse authors being recognised. You can find many of the titles on this list in the 'Most wanted' collection on our catalogue.
To reserve items on the list, visit the catalogue page for our Hottest 100 books of 2024.
Boroondara hottest 100 adult fiction titles 2024
- Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
- The last devil to die by Richard Osman
- Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Lola in the mirror by Trent Dalton
- The bullet that missed by Richard Osman
- Cold enough for snow by Jessica Au
- The bee sting by Paul Murray
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Happy place by Emily Henry
- StoneYard devotional by Charlotte Wood
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- The soulmate by Sally Hepworth
- What happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
- The seven by Chris Hammer
- The dictionary of lost words by Pip Williams
- Horse by Geraldine Brooks
- Good material by Dolly Alderton
- Exiles by Jane Harper
- Homecoming by Kate Morton
- Everyone on this train is a suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
- Darling girls by Sally Hepworth
- The raging storm by Ann Cleeves
- The exchange by John Grisham
- The man who died twice by Richard Osman
- Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
- Resurrection walk by Michael Connelly
- Green dot by Madeleine Gray
- Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
- So late in the day by Claire Keegan
- Water by John Boyne
- None of this is true by Lisa Jewell
- The secret by Lee Child
- Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama
- Prophet song by Paul Lynch
- Prima facie by Suzie Miller
- Women & children by Tony Birch
- Dead tide by Fiona McIntosh
- It ends with us by Colleen Hoover
- The running grave by Robert Galbraith
- Foul play by Fiona McIntosh
- The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
- The tilt by Chris Hammer
- Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The fraud by Zadie Smith
- The marriage portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
- Hello beautiful : a novel by Ann Napolitano
- Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
- Tales from the cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The secret hours by Mick Herron
- The hummingbird effect by Kate Mildenhall
- The Rachel incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
- Boy swallows universe by Trent Dalton
- Lady Tan's circle of women by Lisa See
- The broken wave by Matthew Ryan Davies
- Day by Michael Cunningham
- Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson
- Apples never fall by Liane Moriarty
- No plan B by Lee Child
- At the foot of the cherry tree by Alli Parker
- Desert star by Michael Connelly
- It starts with us by Colleen Hoover
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Simply lies by David Baldacci
- The librarianist by Patrick deWitt
- The murder rule by Dervla McTiernan
- The tea ladies by Amanda Hampson
- The conversion by Amanda Lohrey
- Romantic comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Old God's time by Sebastian Barry
- Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Po-rŭm Hwang
- Iron flame by Rebecca Yarros
- The in-between by Christos Tsiolkas
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Lucy by the sea by Elizabeth Strout
- The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- The covenant of water by Abraham Verghese
- Butter by Asako Yuzuki
- Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
- So shall you reap by Donna Leon
- All that's left unsaid by Tracey Lien
- Book lovers by Emily Henry
- Days at the Morisaki bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
- Chai time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
- Love, theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
- Shrines of gaiety by Kate Atkinson
- The edge by David Baldacci
- Treasure & dirt by Chris Hammer
- Slow horses by Mick Herron
- The Collector by Daniel Silva
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
- I will find you by Harlan Coben
- Too late by Colleen Hoover
More information
- To reserve a book, visit the Hottest 100 Books of 2024 page on the Library catalogue. Use your membership number and PIN to place a reservation. Find information on reserving items at our Reserve and request page.
- See our summer holiday opening hours.
- Visit our Book Groups page for many of the titles on this list, as well as reading recommendations and everything you need for book groups.
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