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Top 10 Checkouts – 2024

In 2024, JMRL cardholders checked out 1,717,869 items from the library. Read on for the Top 10 Checkouts of the year in selected categories. How many have you watched, listened to, or read this year?

Magazines in LIBBY

  1. The New Yorker
  2. New Scientist
  3. Us Weekly
  4. The Week Magazine
  5. Cook’s Illustrated
  6. National Geographic Magazine
  7. Guardian Weekly
  8. Prevention
  9. The New York Review of Books
  10. Newsweek

ebooks in in Overdrive/LIBBY

  1. Demon Copperhead : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
  2. The women / Kristin Hannah.
  3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / James McBride.
  4. Fourth wing / Rebecca Yarros.
  5. Funny Story / Emily Henry
  6. The covenant of water : a novel / Abraham Verghese.
  7. Happy Place / Emily Henry
  8. A court of thorns and roses / Sarah J. Maas.
  9. Tom Lake : a novel / Ann Patchett.
  10. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed / Lori Gottlieb

eaudiobooks in in Overdrive/LIBBY

  1. The covenant of water  / by Abraham Verghese.
  2. Fourth Wing / Rebecca Yarros.
  3. The Berry Pickers / Amanda Peters
  4. Iron flame /  Rebecca Yarros.
  5. The women  / Kristin Hannah.
  6. Tom Lake  / by Ann Patchett.
  7. Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver
  8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store  / James McBride.
  9. The Four Winds / Kristin Hannah
  10. Never Lie / Freida McFadden

Videos on Kanopy

  1. Father Brown: S1
  2. A Perfect Spy
  3. Death in Paradise: S1
  4. Past Lives
  5. Sarah and Duck: S3
  6. Scott & Bailey: S1
  7. Waking the Dead: S1
  8. Luther: S1
  9. The Forsyte Saga: S1
  10. Call the Midwife: S3

Top DVDs

  1. Oppenheimer 
  2. Barbie 
  3. Everything everywhere all at once 
  4. The holdovers 
  5. The last of us. The complete first season 
  6. Are you there God? it’s me, Margaret 
  7. Belfast
  8. A haunting in Venice
  9. The banshees of Inisherin 
  10. Guardians of the Galaxy. Volume 3

Top YA Fiction

  1. A court of Thorns and Roses / Sarah J. Maas.
  2. A court of wings and ruin / Sarah J. Maas.
  3. The Hunger Games / by Suzanne Collins.
  4. Throne of glass / Sarah J. Maas.
  5. A court of mist and fury / Sarah J. Maas.
  6. The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Suzanne Collins.
  7. Drama / Raina Telgemeier ; with color by Gurihiru.
  8. A court of frost and starlight / Sarah J. Maas.
  9. Catching fire / Suzanne Collins.
  10. Heir of fire / Sarah J. Maas.

Top Adult fiction

  1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / James McBride.
  2. The women / Kristin Hannah.
  3. Demon Copperhead : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
  4. Tom Lake : a novel / Ann Patchett.
  5. The covenant of water : a novel / Abraham Verghese.
  6. Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Shelby Van Pelt.
  7. North woods : a novel / Daniel Mason.
  8. The bee sting / Paul Murray.
  9. Lessons in chemistry / Bonnie Garmus.
  10. The frozen river : a novel / Ariel Lawhon.

Top Adult nonfiction

  1. Outlive : the science & art of longevity / Peter Attia, MD, with Bill Gifford.
  2. The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder / David Grann.
  3. The demon of unrest : a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War / Erik Larson.
  4. The comfort of crows : a backyard year / Margaret Renkl ; art by Billy Renkl.
  5. Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann.
  6. How to know a person : the art of seeing others deeply and being deeply seen / David Brooks.
  7. Oath and honor : a memoir and a warning / Liz Cheney.
  8. The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness / Jonathan Haidt.
  9. Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones / James Cl
  10. Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance.

Top Juvenile fiction

  1. Dog Man. Twenty thousand fleas under the sea / written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey as George Beard and Harold Hutchins
  2. Diary of a wimpy kid : old school / Jeff Kinney.
  3. Dog Man. Brawl of the wild / written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by J
  4. Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw / by Jeff Kinney.
  5. Diary of a wimpy kid:  Rodrick rules  / by Jeff Kinney.
  6. Diary of a wimpy kid : wrecking ball / by Jeff Kinney.
  7. Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth / by Jeff Kinney.
  8. Dog man and cat kid / written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by Jose Gar
  9. Diary of a wimpy kid. Double down / by Jeff Kinney.
  10. Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley’s journal / by Jeff Kinney.

Want to learn more?

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