Libraries ACT’s most borrowed book of 2024 is Lola in the Mirror, by Australian author Trent Dalton.

A list of the top 5 reads for 2024 in a variety of genres are listed below.

Most popular in all formats (including audio books)

1. Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
2. Past Lying by Val McDermid
3. Sanctuary by Garry Disher
4. The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
5. What happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan

Top five adult fiction

1. Lola in the mirror by Trent Dalton
2. Past Lying by Val McDermid
3. Sanctuary by Garry Disher
4. What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
5. Everyone on this train is a suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

 Top five books by ACT authors

1. The Seven by Chris Hammer
2. The Tilt by Chris Hammer
3. The woman in the library by Sulari Gentill
4. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise by Niki Savva
5. Smoke by Michael Brissenden

Top five adult non-fiction

1. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life by Anna Funder
2. RecipeTin eats dinner: 150+ recipes from Australia’s favourite cook by Nagi Maehashi
3. 4 weeks to better sleep: A life-changing plan for deep sleep, improved brain function and feeling great by Michael Mosley
4. The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness by Jonathon Haidt
5. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

Top five junior fiction and graphic novels

1. Dog man: Twenty thousand fleas under the sea by Dav Pilkey
2. Hypo-ninja! by Anh Do
3. Ninja games! by Anh Do
4. The Scarlet Shedder by Dav Pilkey
5. The race is on by Anh Do

Top five young adult fiction and graphic novels

1. A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J Maas
2. Powerless by Lauren Roberts
3. Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
4. The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins
5. A court of mist and fury by Sarah J Maas